Brookside School 1929 Addition Entrance Light

The oldest academic building at Cranbrook, the Meeting House was designed by Cranbrook co-founder George Gough Booth with his son Henry Scripps Booth. A charming Arts & Crafts building, it was constructed between June and the late fall of 1918 to be a center for social, instructional, political, and religious gatherings for the family and larger Bloomfield community. Religious services began in the Meeting House in January of 1919, led by George Booth’s father, Henry Wood Booth, and Brookside School opened in the Meeting House in 1922.

Kevin Adkisson
Curator
Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research
April 2022

Edward F. Caldwell & Co. (1895-1959)

Edward F. Caldwell & Co. was one of America’s most prominent lighting and furnishing firms in the early twentieth century. They played a leading role in the transition from designing lights for gas, oil, or candle flames to electricity. For their clientele, which included many of the wealthiest individuals and institutions in America, they offered an extensive catalog of thousands of designs for chandeliers, wall sconces, table, and floor lamps, in styles ranging from medieval revival to the cutting edge of Art Deco modernism.

Mariam Hale
2023-2025 Collections Fellow
Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research
July 2024