2019-03-12 - Builder's nameplate (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2005-10-02 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Relocated to St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Bellingham, WA. -Database Manager
2005-12-21 - Updated through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: <br><i>Moved to St. Paul's Church, Bellingham, Washington in 1931.</i> -Database Manager
2007-05-02 - Updated through online information from Jams R. Stettner. -Database Manager
2007-06-04 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- There are some discrepancies in the exact size and stats of this organ. The Aeolian-Skinner website and Alan Kinzey/Sand Lawn book both list the organ as 22 ranks and 1,296 pipes. Yet if you add-up the number of speaking stops, registers, ranks, and pipes presented on the A-S website, that's not accurate. By the stoplist given, the organ was 21 registers, 26 speaking stops (inc. chimes & harp), 21 ranks, and 1,408 pipes. Former Balcom and Vaughan President William J. Bunch recorded the organ as being 22 ranks, but the Echo division was 3-registers / 4-ranks, the Unda Maris being a 2-rank single register. If that is accurate, then the organ was 21 registers, 26 speaking stops, 22 ranks, and 1,469 pipes. When the organ was rebuilt as a 2-man. by Balcom and Vaughan in 1969, the Choir chest was sold to Richard Warburton of Skykomish, Washington for use in his home organ. The console was acquired by Tom Kaasa, and stored in a house on Green Lake Way in Seattle. It was later acquired by Jack and Mary Lou Becvar of Kent, Washington, and in 1998 it was purchase by Francis Riley. The Becvars have the original wooden 16' Dulciana on the ceiling of their home and playing as a part of their 3-man. Wurlitzer. Sources: A-S website; A-S book; PSTOS website. -Database Manager
From Allen Kinzey via <i>The Aeolian-Skinner Archives</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Seattle, Washington
Alaska Theater
Ernest M. Skinner Co. Opus 217 1913 3 manuals, 21 stops, 21 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN
8' Diapason 61 16' Bourdon 73
8' Doppel Flute 61 8' Diapason 73
8' Erzähler 61 8' Gedackt 73
8' Dulciana 61 8' Viol d'Orchestre 73
8' Viol Celeste 73
CHOIR ORGAN 4' Flute 73
8' Geigen Principal 73 8' Cornopean 73
8' Concert Flute 73 8' Orchestral Oboe 73
4' Flute 73 Tremolo
2 2/3' Nazard 61
8' Clarinet 73 PEDAL ORGAN
Tremolo 16' Diapason 32
Harp 16' Bourdon SW
16' Dulciana 12
ECHO ORGAN 8' Flute 12
8' Fern Flute 61
8' Unda Maris 61
8' Vox Humana 61
Tremolo
Chimes 25 tubes
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2014-08-08]
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