Dobson Pipe Organ Builders
1985

Originally Verney Organ Company (1904)

St. Michael's Episcopal Church / Christ Episcopal Church

220 40th Street N.E.
Cedar Rapids, IA, US

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Instrument ID: 2641 ● Builder ID: 1673 ● Location ID: 2528
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Builder: Unknown
Position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
Design: Traditional With a Removable Panel in Front of Keyboards
Pedalboard Type: Unknown
Features:
2 Manuals 19 Stops20 RegistersMechanical (Unknown) Key Action

Stop Layout: Unknown
Expression Type: Unknown
Combination Action: Unknown
Control System: Unknown or N/A

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This instrument is: Extant and Playable in this location

Database Manager on April 15th, 2012:
Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- Sold to VIVA! Performing Arts School in Dixon, IL. To be installed in Philander Hall. (Source: Associated Press on-line article dated April 13, 2012)

Database Manager on April 30th, 2011:
Updated through online information from Stephen Hall. -- St. Michael-s merged with St. John's circa 1998 and is now known as Christ Episcopal, the merged congregation uses the former St. Michael's campus. The organ was still there in 2010, but offered for sale by the church.

Database Manager on August 11th, 2007:
According to an online update from David Poile, the church closed in 1999. The organ was relocated by a local builder to Grace Episcopal Church, Cedar Rapids.

Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
The original builder was Verney (1904).

Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Status Note: There 1994.

Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
From First United Methodist, Parkersburg, Iowa (razed) 1993. Restored 1985 by Dobson Organ Co.

Related Instrument Entries: Verney Organ Company (1904) , Unknown Builder (1999ca.) , Unknown Builder (2013)

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