Limited visitor parking is available at 550 Cranbrook Road, with overflow parking at 652 Cranbrook Road.
All visitors must check in at the Brookside Main Office.
When parked in the 550 Cranbrook Road lot, the Brookside Main Office can be reached by entering the front doors below the tower. The office is the second door on the left, just before the staircase leading down.
When parked in the 652 Cranbrook Road lot, walk down the sidewalk on Cranbrook Road past the Hedgegate apartments on the left and make a left into the 550 Cranbrook Road parking lot to enter the front doors to Brookside below the tower. The office (220) is the second door on the left, just before the staircase leading down.
Cranbrook Schools Brookside is a school on children's own terms - a fanciful building full of nooks, crannies, classrooms, and activity areas that spark imagination and look at the world from a child's perspective. As Brookside has grown over the years, the school has become the most added-to and renovated building on the Cranbrook campus. The result is a friendly, rambling series of connected buildings that extend between Cranbrook Road and a small branch of the River Rouge, which inspires the name Brookside. Its maze-like corridors, storybook decoration, upstairs and downstairs, delight children who move through the building because it was created for people just their size.
The tower is the signature element of the historic Brookside School. Rising above the small courtyard and entrance to the school's main office, the tower has a spiral staircase that ascends to the observation deck at the top. From this height, Brookside and all its charming grounds make a captivating view. In creating the tower, Henry Scripps Booth remembered what it was like to be small and hoped to give the children a sense of presence in their world. This mission is central to the educational objectives and opportunities of today's Brookside.