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Cranbrook, city, southeastern corner of British Columbia, Canada.

Cranbrook was founded by a Detroit newspaper publisher, George G. Booth, and his wife, Ellen Scripps Booth, and is named for his father's birthplace in England.

The art museum (built 1940 41, opened 1942) is one of several buildings of Cranbrook Educational Community on the Booth estate; it is surrounded by landscaped gardens containing sculptures, fountains, and tree-lined walks.

These institutions merged in the mid-1980s to become the coeducational Cranbrook Kingswood Schools.

It includes such areas as (roughly from north to south) Woodford Wells, Hainault Estate, Woodford, Woodford Bridge, Barkingside, part of Snaresbrook, Wanstead, Newbury Park, Chadwell Heath, Seven Kings, part of Leytonstone, Aldersbrook, Cranbrook Park, Goodmayes, and Ilford.

Together with the Cranbrook Academy of Art (1932), a postgraduate institution, they constitute the Cranbrook Educational Community.

He continued his studies at the University of Minnesota and in 1951 completed an M.F.A. in sculpture at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

The Cranbrook School for Boys (1928) and the Kingswood School for Girls (1931) in Bloomfield Hills, designed by architect Eliel Saarinen, pioneered advanced courses in the visual arts for students of high-school age.

He then attended the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (1952 53), and the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts (M.A., 1954).

In 1931 Milles became head of the sculpture department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and in 1945 he became a U.S. citizen.

Cranbrook Academy of Art, private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., U.S. The school and its associated museum were designed largely by Finnish American architect Eliel Saarinen.