Celebrate Women's History Month during this tour and tea highlighting the contributions of craftswomen and female artists to the American Arts and Crafts Movement and at Cranbrook.
Explore artwork by these notable artists and more:
- A pioneering artist who founded the first large manufacturing company owned by a woman in the United States.
- Mary Chase Perry Stratton, co-founder of Pewabic Pottery in Detroit.
- Maija Grotell, Cranbrook Academy of Art’s first and longest-serving Head of Ceramics.
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Tea Menu
High 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
Please note that 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.
Space is limited. Reservations are required by Friday, March 21, 2025 at 12:00pm.
Accessibility
Cranbrook House & Gardens is a historic facility preserved and maintained as closely as possible to its original design. Please click here for more information on accessibility.
Photo Credits (From Top to Bottom)
Cranbrook House Library. Photograph by James Haefner. Courtesy Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research.
Maija Grotell, 1947. Harvey Croze, photographer. [P369]. Courtesy of Cranbrook Archives, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research.
Maria Longsworth Nichols. From Memoirs of Theodore Thomas. Public domain image.
Mary Chase Stratton laying out the Pewabic tile pattern for the Rainbow Fountain, 1916. [POL_02_114_2]. Courtesy of Cranbrook Archives, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research.
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