Western Reserve Historical Society
10825 East Boulevard
Cleveland,
OH
44106 US
Organ ID: 2915
The Society collection includes a one-manual, two rank organ built by Geo. Jardine and Son of New York City. The Society dates the organ between 1835 and 1850; Peter Cameron of Methuen, Massachusetts places the instrument at around 1837. It is thought that the Rice family brought the organ from New York to Cleveland in the mid-1880s (William Lowe Rice lived in a mansion at 2300 Overlook Road). In 1918, Fred White purchased the organ along with the residence, and the museum acquired the organ in 1944. The instrument holds OHS Historic Organ Citation #342. -- 2009 OHS Atlas
Status Note: Storage 1998
Original location uncertain. Organ came from New York, NY c. 1885. with William Lowe Rice family, later Mrs. Fred White residence, 2300 Overlook Rd., Cleveland. To WRHS in 1944.
Organ case, free-standing: Photograph from an archival source: 2009 OHS Atlas, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano. Taken approx. unknown historical, after 1938
Builder nameplate: Photograph from an archival source: 2009 OHS Atlas, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano. Taken approx. 2009