TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 114-115 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionTHE WINDS OF CHANGE:
BLOOMFIELD VILLAGE IS CONCEIVED
Judson Bradway is always acclaimed as a man of ... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 04 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionFOREWORD
When the Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees appointed the
Bicentennial Commission in Oct... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 32 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Township (Mich.) -- History DescriptionSUPERVISOR HOMER CASE TALKS
ABOUT HIS TOWNSHIP
"It's rather a pleasure to reminisce over the twenty ... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 098-099 Date1976 SubjectMichigan -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 DescriptionDARK CLOUDS AMASS.
THE WAR OF THE REBELLION BEGINS
Into the stabilizing economy and flourishing fa... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 100-101 Date1976 SubjectSchools -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township -- History DescriptionEARLY SCHOOLS
The first school in Bloomfield was a private one. It was
begun in 1822 in a log hous... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 002-003 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Blossoms DescriptionWith affection and respect, this first book of history
of Bloomfield Township is dedicated to
HO... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 006-007 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Blossoms DescriptionBLOOMFIELD IS ONE OF THE OLDEST TOWNSHIPS IN MICHIGAN
A certificate was received by the board of tr... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 008-009 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Blossoms DescriptionBLOOMFIELD REDISCOVERED
The census of 1830 showed about 30 families living within
the Township's 3... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 010-011 Date1976 SubjectArchitecture, Domestic -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Townshp DescriptionTHE RISING, THE IMPORTANT, THE FAMOUS
Bloomfield Township, Bloomfield Hills and Birmingham
run a... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 012-013 Date1976 SubjectArchitecture, Domestic -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township DescriptionTWO GOVERNORS, SENATORS, A CABINET MEMBER
In 1846, the Michigan State Legislature decided to look
... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 014-015 Date1976 SubjectArchitecture, Domestic -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township DescriptionPOLITICAL ACTIVITY ON ALL LEVELS
Charles Erwin Wilson was called C. E. when he was
serving as pres... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 016-017 Date1976 SubjectArchitecture, Domestic -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township DescriptionGIANTS OF INDUSTRY CHOOSE BLOOMFIELD FOR
THEIR HOMES
Up until about 1960, most of the rising and t... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 018-019 Date1976 SubjectArchitecture, Domestic -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township DescriptionPROFESSIONAL PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN
ATTRACTED TO BLOOMFIELD
In the 1820s, when the first settlers... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 020-021 Date1976 SubjectCranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) DescriptionA RENOWNED PUBLISHER AND A DREAM CALLED CRANBROOK
No history of this area could be conceived withou... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 022-023 Date1976 SubjectBenedict Farm (Bloomfield Township, Mich.) DescriptionTHE EARLIEST BLOOMFIELD HOUSE
STILL IN EXISTENCE
This is our Bicentennial year. It's acceptable th... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 024-025 Date1976 SubjectSodon Lake (Oakland County, Mich.) DescriptionBEAUTY AND MYSTERY IN STILL WATERS
Sodon Lake between Long Lake and Lone Pine Roads
near Franklin lo... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 026-027 Date1976 SubjectArchitects -- United States DescriptionWORLD FAMOUS ARCHITECTS DESIGN
BLOOMFIELD'S HOMES
Many architects renowned allover the world for t... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 028-029 Date1976 SubjectWright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 DescriptionTWO FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOUSES
Frank Lloyd Wright designed two houses in Bloomfield.
The Melvyn Max... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 030-031 Date1976 SubjectIce storms -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township DescriptionBLOOMFIELD'S CLIMATE, AND
A BICENTENNIAL ICE STORM
The climate of our area, as the climate of all ... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: Book cover Dateunknown SubjectKirk in the Hills Presbyterian Church (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) DescriptionColor photograph of blooming tree branches and Kirk in the Hills (church) from cover of 'Bloomfield ... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 130-131 Date1976 SubjectChurches -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Township DescriptionTHE HILLS' CHURCHES
There is more land in Bloomfield Hills dedicated to houses
of worship than the... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 132-133 Date1976 SubjectArchitecture, Domestic -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Hills DescriptionEARLY SUBURBAN RESIDENCES
Bloomfield Hills, so attractive to our first settlers, spent
its long do... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 134-135 Date1976 SubjectCranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) DescriptionCRANBROOK JEWELS-ARCHITECTURE AND ART
Families who built estates here had private art collections,
... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 136-137 Date1976 SubjectMilles, Carl, 1875-1955 DescriptionCARL MILLES' ORPHEUS FOUNTAIN
Carl Milles has more than 70 pieces of sculpture on the
grounds at C... View Details
TitleBloomfield Blossoms: p. 138-139 Date1976 SubjectBloomfield Hills (Mich.) -- Politics and government -- History DescriptionBLOOMFIELD HILLS GOVERNMENT AND CITY HALL
In 1926, the area of Bloomfield Hills had outgrown its fi... View Details
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