Gift of Architecture

Belle Isle Park

Cranbrook Academy of Art is part of the 319-acre Cranbrook Educational Community, founded by George Gough Booth and his wife Ellen Scripps Booth, Detroit newspaper proprietors and philanthropists, who hired Eliel Saarinen to design the idyllic community. Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen was hired to help with the master plan and design of the campus.

The Cranbrook School, the first building constructed in the United States by renowned Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen, was designed to be the American parallel to the Bauhaus Movement as a school of craftwork, art, and design.
A National Historic Landmark, Cranbrook School was founded by newspaper magnates George Gough and Ellen Scripps Booth.
Today, Cranbrook School is just one of the six educational entities within the 319-acre Educational Community, and stands as a paradigm of the Gift of Architecture.

Henry Ford Hospital, located on West Grand Boulevard in the City of Detroit. Opening its doors to the public in 1915, it was the first closed hosptial in the United States.