after 1996 - Pipe facade visible in background (Photograph from an archival source: The Rotunda website, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
Note: Not playable. (in this location)
2006-11-16 - 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> Retained most pipework from earlier C.S. Haskell; new console by M. P. Möller in 1962; rebuilt by M. P. Möller in 1973.</i> -Database Manager
2018-10-05 - The church was sold to the University of Pennsylvania in 1996 and is now known as a very popular event space called The Rotunda. -Database Manager
2023-02-07 - Built in 1911 as a house of worship originally for the First Church of Christ Scientist, it was designed by Carrere and Hastings, the New York-based firm who set the tone of the American classicism of the twentieth century. With its low, tile-roofed narthex, circular main hall (AKA the sanctuary), and oversized windows, The building is of unsurpassed simplicity and elegance recalling Early Christian spaces such as Rome’s Santa Sabina. The University of Pennsylvania purchased the building in 1996 as a strategic acquisition tied to a large scale community investment strategy known as the West Philadelphia Initiatives. -- from *The Rotunda* website: About A photo on the website shows the pipe facade still in place. -Paul R. Marchesano
From Allen Kinzey via <i>The Aeolian-Skinner Archives</i> Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc. Opus 881 1932 3 manuals, 32 stops, 35 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN (enclosed) SWELL ORGAN
8' First Diapason 61 16' Lieblich Bourdon 73
8' Second Diapason 61 8' Geigen Diapason 73
8' Grossflöte 61 8' Stopped Flute 73
8' Erzähler 61 8' Viola da Gamba 73
4' Octave 61 8' Viola Celeste (TC) 61
4' Flute 61 8' Echo Salicional 73
II Mixture 122 8' Voix Celeste (TC) 61
8' Tromba 61 4' Flauto Traverso 73
8' French Horn 61 2' Piccolo 61
Tremolo III Mixture 183
Chimes 8' Cornopean 73
8' Oboe d'Amore 73
CHOIR ORGAN 8' Vox Humana 73
16' Erzähler 73 Tremolo
8' Diapason 73
8' Concert Flute 73 PEDAL ORGAN
8' Erzähler 12 32' Resultant --
8' Kleine Erzähler (TC) 61 16' Diapason 32
4' Flauto d'Amore 73 16' Bourdon 32
2 2/3' Nasard -- 16' Lieblich Bourdon SW
2' Flautino 12 16' Erzähler CH
8' Clarinet 73 8' Diapason 12
8' English Horn 73 8' Bourdon 12
Tremolo 8' Erzähler CH
8' Harp (TC) -- 16' Trombone 32
4' Celesta 8' Tromba 12
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2016-07-22]
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