# Photoblog: Cranbrook Schools

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2016-05-29

architecture, boarding-school, campus, cranbrook, cranbrook-schools, design, detroit, endowment-fund, national-historic-landmark, photoblog, private-school, school, uncategorized

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My spring allergies have gotten the best of me today. So instead of a regular post, I’m going to share some of my photos of the [Cranbrook Schools](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranbrook_Schools). I toured the campus this afternoon.

Cranbrook Schools is a private boarding school (PK - 12) in Bloomfield Hills, outside of Detroit. It has an endowment fund of about [$233 million](http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/top-twenty-schools-listing/largest-endowments), which is one of the largest of American boarding schools. In 1989, the campus was designated a National Historic Landmark.

The photos are in the order in which they were taken.

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/b41dcdcd59e09c7b70312338aa053a99.jpg)![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/a8211673305fba36fbb4c44cf1a445c6.jpg)![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/707d50251bd42941713c7bb5dc5274f4.jpg)

A man happen to be playing a violin in the space below.

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/d07b14896ce2bf8e05b8a2718fcb593d.jpg)![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/83fa1ecaca9c7ac8c4ef546c17a6e38d.jpg)

The stone shingles below get smaller as they move up the roof to give the illusion that the building is larger than it really is.

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/1eb74737706bf6a8e1528ac5609ca9fb.jpg)

And here are my fellow architecture nerds, Matthew and Rick.

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/8a21ae3e7dab22f87fa1de183434850d.jpg)

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/photoblog-cranbrook-schools)*