Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2004-10-30 - The first building for St. James Episcopal was at Cass and Illinois. Moved in 1857 to Cass & Huron to a building that was not completed until 1870. This church appears in the first Pilcher ledger on a list of churches and organs destroyed in the 1871 Chicago fire. Cass, north of the river, is now part of Wabash Ave. Rebuilt on the same site, using some of the fire-scarred walls. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Updated through online information from Douglas W. Craw. -- This organ and the entire church were destroyed in the great Chicago fire of 1871. -Database Manager
2007-08-21 - St. James received the status of cathedral in 1928 after the Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul was destroyed in a fire in 1921, but the arrangement was terminated in 1931. On May 3, 1955, St. James was again designated the cathedral and was formally set apart on June 4, 1955. -Database Manager
Typed stoplist (Source: The Stopt Diapason, June 1982) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
St. James Church (Episcopal)
Cass (Wabash) & Huron
Chicago, Illinois
Johnson & Son, Opus 334, 1870
OHS ID: 450
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GREAT pipes type SWELL pipes type DRAW STOPS
16 Open Diapason...58 metal 16 Bourdon............58 wood 1. Great to Pedals
8 Open Diapason...58 metal 8 Principal..........58 metal 2. Swell to Pedals
8 Doppelflote.....58 wood 8 Stopped Diapason...58 metal 3. Solo to Pedals
8 Gamba...........58 metal 8 Salicional.........58 metal 4. Bellows Signal
8 Rohrflote.......58 wood 8 Quintadena.........58 metal 5. Pedal Check
4 Octave..........58 metal 4 Violina............58 metal
4 Hohlflote.......58 metal 4 Octave.............58 metal PNEUMATIC COUPLINGS
2-2/3 Mixture II.....116 metal 4 Flauto Traverso....58 wood (operated by knobs)
Mixture IV.....240 metal Mixture IV........232 metal 6. Swell to Great
8 Trumpet.........58 reed 16 Tenoroon Trumpet...46 reed 7. Solo to Great
4 Clarion.........58 reed 8 Cornopean..........58 reed 8. Swell to Solo
8 Oboe...............58 reed
SOLO pipes type 8 Vox Humana.........58 reed PEDAL MOVEMENTS
8 Keraulophon.....58 metal 9. Reversible for No. 1
8 Dulciana........58 metal PEDAL pipes type 10. Tremulant to Swell
8 Melodia.........58 wood 16 Principal..........30 wood 11. Great Organ Forte
4 Flute d'Amour...58 metal 16 Bourdon............30 wood 12. Swell Organ Forte
2 Piccolo.........58 metal 16 Contrabass.........30 metal 13. Solo Organ Forte
16 Euphone.........58 free reed 8 Flote..............30 wood 14. Pedal Forte
8 Clarionet.......58 reed 8 Violoncello........30 metal 15. Swell Organ Piano
16 Bombardon..........30 reed 16. Great Organ Mezzo Forte
8 Tromba.............30 reed 17. Solo Organ Piano
18. Pedal Organ Piano
19. Ratchet Swell Pedal
NOTES
1. Pneumatic action to Great and Pedal. "No other organ in the West has the pneumatic lever
applied to the Pedal organ."
2. "The drawknobs are all of the new kind, which turn up and look the performer in the face,
so that it is perfectly easy for the player to read the name on any stop."
3. "The wind is supplied by a rotary motion supplied by two persons. The pressure is 3 inch
and 4 inch. There are four bellows, and the wind is ample."
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