Twenty miles northwest of Detroit in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Cranbrook is an educational complex comprising a house and garden, a church, three schools, an art academy, and a science institute. It was developed by George Gough Booth (1864–1949), publisher of the Detroit News and a chain of smaller papers, and his wife, Ellen Warren Scripps Booth (1863–1948), daughter of newspaper magnate James Edmund Scripps. In 1904 the Booths purchased a large farm in Bloomfield Township and named it for the ancestral home of Booth’s father in Cranbrook, County of Kent, England. Aided by Booth’s sketches, Albert Kahn (1869–1942) prepared plans for their English Arts and Crafts country house (1908) overlooking the estate. The Booths commissioned American and European artisans and craftsmen to create tapestries, wood carvings, furniture, metalwork, glasswork, fine bookbindings, and other decorative pieces in an arts-andcrafts aesthetic for the house. The Booths subsequently began transforming their...