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3 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal49 Stops62 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action

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ViPa on December 12th, 2022:

From the February 1 1956 Diapason:
CHICAGO CHURCH WITH NEW ORGAN DESTROYED BY FIRE
Four bells ringing feverishly at 1:00 A.M. Christmas night wakened neighbors of St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church in Chicago to a spectacular fire which completely razed the building. A new sixty-rank Aeolian-Skinner organ had been rushed to completion for the Christmas services and had been played only three times. The adjoining parish house, which was relatively new, was saved, although considerable water and heat damage was noted.
The destroyed organ had had previous difficulties in transit. The truck carrying the console and pipes from Boston had overturned in Indiana. The three-manual console had to be rebuilt and the pipes repaired, arriving in Chicago only a few days before the disaster.
Arthur Clark is organist and choir director of St. Paul's.

https://www.thediapason.com/sites/thediapason/files/195602TheDiapasonA.pdf


Database Manager on January 6th, 2013:

Updated through online information from Will Dunklin. -- Sanctuary was a total loss due to a fire on December 25, 1955 after the organ had only been used for three services. Replaced in the rebuilt sanctuary in 1959 by 4/91 Op. 1328.


Database Manager on June 12th, 2008:

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:
Replaced 1936 Wangarin retaining twenty-six existing ranks; burned; replaced by #1328.

Webpage Links: Opus 1281: St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church

Related Instrument Entries: Wangerin Organ Co. (1936)

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