Cranbrook House Tour & Tea: Celebrating Ellen Booth's Birthday

Saturday, July 12th, 2025 | 1:00pm - 3:30pm

Celebrate Ellen Scripps Booth’s birthday with a guided tour of Cranbrook House followed by an elegant afternoon tea in the library.

Learn about Ellen Scripps Booth (July 10, 1863 – January 24, 1948), the Booth family, and the treasures inside their 1908 English Tudor manor designed by Albert Kahn. 

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Photograph of guests in the Cranbrook House Library during a Mother's Day Tour & Tea, May 2019.

Tea Menu
Tea includes hot tea, iced tea, tea sandwiches, fresh fruit, assorted miniature pastries and petit fours, and raspberry white chocolate scones served with lemon curd. 

Tea Sandwiches

Lox
Smoked salmon, dill cream cheese, pickled red onion

Coronation Chicken Salad
Curry, apricot jam, lemon, cilantro

Egg Salad
Traditional egg salad, sliced tomato

Cucumber
Boursin cheese, pickled red onion, microgreens

Menu is subject to change.

Admission
$65 per person

Reservations are required by Wednesday, July 2, 2025 at 12:00pm. 
Space is limited.

Photo of Ellen Scripps Booth

Please Note
Guests outside of your party may be seated at your table if you have less than eight guests. If you would like to be seated with guests from another party, please note that in the "Comments" section of the registration form. 


Accessibility
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Photo Credit
Portrait of Ellen Scripps Booth. Courtesy of Cranbrook Archives, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research.


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