Unknown - Facade and Room (Photograph from the collection of Sebastian M. Glück/Database Manager)
Unknown - Facade in 1876 (Photograph from the collection of Jim Lewis/Database Manager)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2017-12-01 - After the Centennial Exhibition closed in the fall of 1876, the buildings were purchased by the Permanent Exhibition Company, which also purchased the Roosevelt organ. In 1881, the organ, said to cost its builders $28,000, was sold to the Charitable Mechanics Association for $10,000 and placed in their large new hall on Huntington Avenue in Boston. Roosevelt completely rebuilt the organ for its new location. -Database Manager
2017-12-01 - "The electric Echo Organ, is placed in the English Tower, and is connected by about 200 feet of wire Cable to the keys of the Great Organ; its bellows being blown by an electric engine. The Electric Suspended Organ, is suspended from the roof about 20 feet in front of the Organ Gallery. This is connected also by a Cable of insulated wires to the keys of the Great Organ; and its bellows is blown by an electric engine." (Hilborne L. Roosevelt) -Database Manager
Typed specification Source: John T. Fesperman, <i>The Bicentennial Tracker</i>. OHS Date not recorded
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Centennial Exhibition
Hilborne L. Roosevelt Opus 15 1876 3 manuals, 38 stops, 46 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
16' Double Melodia 58 16' Bourdon 58
8' Open Diapason 58 8' Open Diapason 58
8' Gamba 58 8' Salicional 58
8' Dulciana 58 8' Stopped Diapason 58
8' Doppel Flöte 58 4' Principal 58
4' Harmonic Flute 58 4' Wald Flöte 58
4' Principal 58 2' Flageolet 58
2' Fifteenth 58* Cornet 5 ranks 290
Mixture 5 ranks 290* 8' Cornopean 58
16' Ophecleide 58* 8' Oboe 58
8' Trumpet 58* 8' Vox Humana 58
8' Euphone (free reed) 58* Tremulant
4' Clarion 58*
* enclosed in Swell box ELECTRIC ECHO ORGAN
8' Stopped Diapason 58
SOLO ORGAN 8' Vox Humana 58
8' Violin Diapason 58 Tremulant
8' Concert Flute 58
4' Doppel Flöte 58 PEDAL ORGAN
16' Tuba Major 58 32' Contra Bass (resultant) --
8' Tuba Mirabilis 58 16' Open Diapason 30
4' Tuba Clarion 58 16' Violone 30
16' Bourdon 30
ELECTRIC SUSPENDED ORGAN 8' Violoncello 30
8' Traverse Flute 58 16' Trombone 30
COMBINATION PEDALS COUPLERS
Great Forte or Full Organ Swell to Great
Great Mezzo Solo to Great Unisons
Great Piano Solo to Great Super-Octaves
Swell Forte Solo to Great Sub-Octaves
Swell Piano Swell to Solo
Solo Forte Swell to Pedal
Pedal Piano Great to Pedal
Solo to Pedal
COMBINATION KNOBS
Full Organ MECHANICAL REGISTERS
Mezzo Organ Bellows Signal
Piano Organ Water Engines
222 small knobs for setting combs. Balanced Swell Pedal
Great to Pedal Reversible
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2017-12-01]
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