Pipe Organ Database

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W. W. Kimball Co. (Opus 7256, 1933)

Location:

Kimball Organ Company
25 E. Jackson Boulevard
Chicago, IL 60604 US
Kimball Hall
Organ ID: 72849

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Showrooms for builders, exhibitors, etc.
  • The organ has been relocated.
  • The organ's condition is good, in regular use.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Paul R. Marchesano on March 01, 2023.

Technical Details:

  • 47 ranks. 3,022 pipes.
Paul R. Marchesano on March 01, 2023:

[The] instrument was replaced in 1940 with the present organ, which was built by the W.W. Kimball Co. of Chicago, Illinois, in 1933 for its Kimball Hall, a well-known recital venue in Chicago's Loop. Kimball Hall was home to a number of the builder's instruments over several decades, which were sold when a more up-to-date instrument was needed for demonstration purposes. Kimball relocated the organ to Zion Church and placed it behind a five-flat Gothic facade of pipes that matched the new altar and pulpit, carved by Alois Lang, a master carver of Oberammergau, Germany, who executed commissions for the American Seating Company. The organ was dedicated with the church on September 29, 1940. -- 2007 OHS Atlas

We received the most recent update for this note from Paul R. Marchesano on March 01, 2023.

Instrument Images:

Kimball Hall. Interior view of recital hall with the rows of seats in the foreground and the stage with curtain in the background: Photograph from an archival source: Special Collections and Archives Department of DePaul University Library, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano. Taken approx. ca. 1956

Drawing of a proposed recital hall with the chairs, in the foreground and the stage with piano and organ in front in the background: Photograph from an archival source: Special Collections and Archives Department of DePaul University Library, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano. Taken approx. 1915