Skinner Organ Co.
Opus 385, 1923

On September 21, 1922, a contract was signed between the Skinner Organ Company of Boston, Massachusetts, and the E.L. Lenox Piano Co., 237 North Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, for a new two-manual organ, opus 385, for Sullivan's residence at 1545 North Meridian Street, to be completed by March 1, 1923. George 0. Kingsbury signed on behalf of the builder. The $7,725.00 cost was amplified by $1,150.00 for the Harp/Celesta in a codicil dated February 19, 1923. (The agreement does not state on which divisions the addition played.) The instrument was expected to be a den1011strator for potential residence-organ custon1ers. Stop control was by knobs above Manual II. Manual compass was sixty-one notes (CC-c4); pedal compass was thirty notes (CC-fl). -- 2007 OHS Atlas

There is now a CVS Pharmacy where his house used to be.

William George Sullivan was born in June of 1884 to George R. and Annie R. Sullivan in Indianapolis, Indiana. He had one brother, Russell. Sullivan was graduated from Yale University in 1907. He wrote a number of papers about historical Hoosier artists, authors and institutions as well as reading manuscipts for Bobb-Merrill Company. Sullivan served as the secretary-treasurer of the Sullivan Geiger Company, a family-founded firm and was the vice president of American States Insurance Company at the time of his death, September 18, 1959. Sullivan is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Relocated to a residence in Anderson, Indiana.

Identified through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn:
With full automatic player attachment; no information.