Unknown - Building exterior (Photograph by Eric Allix Rogers, via openhousechicago.org, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2006-07-06 - Chamber Grillework (Photograph by Jeff Scofield/Database Manager)
2006-01-17 - Identified 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> Rebuilt by Wicks ca. 1982 with new console; enlarged by Wicks in 1991.</i> -Database Manager
2021-12-09 - From Wikipedia: The Chicago Temple Building is a 173-meter (568 foot) tall skyscraper church located at 77 W. Washington Street in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is home to the congregation of the First United Methodist Church of Chicago. It was completed in 1924 and has 23 floors dedicated to religious and office use. It is by one measure the tallest church building in the world based on the distance from the church's street level entrance to the top of the church's spire or steeple. Although by stipulating that a church building's usage be entirely or almost entirely devoted to religious purposes, then, by that standard, Ulm Minster in Ulm, Germany at 161.5 metres (530 feet) in height is the tallest church in the world. It was the tallest building in Chicago from 1924 until 1930, when it was surpassed by the Chicago Board of Trade Building. This claim included the height of the steeple to maintain the title over the 35 East Wacker Building which opened in 1927. The building houses three sanctuaries: Sanctuary 1 is four stories tall on the ground floor with seating available for 1,000 people. Sanctuary 2 is also known as the "Dixon Chapel" and is on the second floor. Sanctuary 3 also known as the "Sky Chapel" is the smallest sanctuary and is situated at the base of the steeple with seating for 30 people. Floors 4 through 21 of the building are rented office space with one residential area which is used by the Methodist church's senior pastor as a parsonage, occupying the three floors of the spire, just below the Sky Chapel. The sixth floor of the building once held the office of Clarence Darrow, the famous trial attorney. -Jeff Scofield
Typed stoplist Source: Shop Notes via Allen Kinzey & <i>The Diapason</i>, August 1923 Date not recorded
Chicago, Illinois
First Methodist Church (Chicago Methodist Temple)
Skinner Organ Company Opus 414 1923 4 manuals, 59 stops, 64 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN (6" wind) SWELL ORGAN (6" wind)
16' Diapason 73 16' Bourdon 73
8' First Diapason 73 (7½" wp) 8' Diapason 73
8' Second Diapason 73 8' Violin Diapason 73
8' Third Diapason 73 8' Gedeckt 73
8' Double Flute 73 8' Salicional 73
8' Wald Flute 73 8' Voix Celeste 73
8' Gamba 73 8' Viole d'Orchestre 73
8' Erzähler 73 8' Flauto Dolce 73
4' Octave 73 8' Flute Celeste (TC) 61
4' Harmonic Flute 73 4' Flute 73
4' Dolce Flute 73 4' Violin 73
2 2/3' Twelfth 61 2' Flautino 61
2' Fifteenth 61 III Mixture 183
IV Mixture 244 16' Contra Posaune 73
16' Ophicleide 73 * 8' Cornopean 73
8' Tromba 73 * 8' Oboe 73
4' Clarion 73 * 8' Vox Humana 73
Tremolo 4' Clarion 73
* high pressure Tremolo
CHOIR ORGAN (6" wind) ECHO ORGAN (6" wind)
8' Diapason 61 8' Quintadena 61
8' Concert Flute 61 8' Gedeckt 61
8' Dulciana 61 4' Flute 61
8' Unda Maris (TC) 49 8' Vox Humana 61
4' Flute 61 Tremolo
2' Piccolo 61
8' Clarinet 61 PEDAL ORGAN (5" wind)
8' Orchestral Oboe 61 16' Diapason 32
Tremolo 16' Violone 32
8' Harp (TC) -- 16' Bourdon 32
4' Celesta 61 bars 16' Echo Bourdon SW
Carillon 8' Octave 12
8' Gedeckt 12
SOLO ORGAN (10" wind) 8' Cello 12
8' Stentorphone 73 8' Still Gedeckt SW
8' Gross Gedeckt 73 4' Super Octave 12
8' Gross Gamba 73 4' Flute 12
8' Gamba Celeste 73 32' Bombarde (12½" wp) 32
4' Orchestral Flute 73 16' Trombone 12
8' Tuba Mirabilis 73 (15" wp) 16' Posaune SW
8' French Horn 73 8' Tromba 12
8' English Horn 73 4' Clarion 12
Tremolo
Chimes 25 tubes
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2017-03-01]
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