 the cranbrook educational community, a national historic landmark, in the us state of michigan was founded in the early 20th century by newspaper mogul george gough booth. cranbrook campus is in the detroit suburb of bloomfield hills consisting of cranbrook schools, cranbrook academy of art, cranbrook art museum, cranbrook institute of science and cranbrook house and gardens. the founders built christ church cranbrook as a focal point in order to serve the educational complex, though the church is a separate entity under the episcopal diocese of michigan. the sprawling, 319 acre (129 hectare) campus began as a 174 acre (70 ha) farm, purchased in 1904. the organization takes its name from cranbrook, england, the birthplace of the founder's father. cranbrook is renowned for its architecture in the arts and crafts movement style. the chief architects were albert kahn and eliel saarinen. renowned sculptors carl milles and marshall fredericks also spent many years in residence at cranbrook. ==schools at cranbrook==  cranbrook schools today comprise a co-educational day and boarding college preparatory "upper" school; a middle school, and brookside lower school. the first school to open on the cranbrook grounds was the bloomfield hills school in 1922. founded by george booth, the bloomfield hills school was intended as the community school for local area children (of which there were then very few). the bloomfield hills school ultimately evolved into brookside school. following completion of the bloomfield hills school, booth looked forward to building the cranbrook school for boys, an all-boys college-preparatory school which students from the detroit area and abroad would come to reside. booth wanted the 
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