BLOOMFIELD HILLS

city, Oakland county, southeastern Michigan, U.S. It lies just southeast of Pontiac and northwest of Detroit. The site was settled in 1819 by Amasa Bagley and was known as Bagley's Corners and Bloomfield Center until the present name was adopted in the 1890s. A farming community until Detroit residents began buying estates, it then became a restricted residential community. The Cranbrook Foundation, established in 1927 by Ellen Scripps Booth and George C. Booth (president of the Detroit News) on their 300-acre (121-hectare) estate, includes the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Museum, the Cranbrook Institute of Science, Cranbrook Gardens, the Tudor-style Cranbrook House, and the Gothic-style Christ Church (Episcopalian); four of the buildings were designed by the architect Eliel Saarinen. The Stake Center (1959) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) is located in the city. Oakland Community College was opened in 1964. Inc. village, 1927; city, 1932. Pop. (1990) 4,288.