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Estey Organ Co. Opus 141 (1904)

St. Rose Convent
La Crosse, WI

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)


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Unknown - Organ case in rear gallery (Hand-colored postcard in the collection of James R. Stettner, courtesy of James R. Stettner (ca. 1910)/Database Manager)

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Notes

2007-06-23 - Identified by James R. Stettner through information from the Estey Opus List, published in The Boston Organ Club newsletter, 1973-1979. -Database Manager

2018-03-01 - Updated by James R. Stettner, listing conversations with this person as the source of the information: Sister Malinda Gerke, former Liturgy Coordinator for St. Rose from 1990-2001.<br> According to an email received from Sister Malinda Gerke on Monday, February 26, 2018 - the organ survived the 1923 fire untouched. But the installation had blocked a large rose window. So in 1939, the Verlinden Organ Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin was hired to electrify the organ and divide it into two side locations with grilles rather than facade pipes so that the center would hold a 60-voice choir and the rose window would be revealed. The organ survived in this form until 1983 when it was replaced with a new pipe organ. -Database Manager


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