Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2019-12-01 - In 1862, department store magnate Alexander T. Stewart (1803-1876) opened a huge cast-iron emporium, which filled an entire block from Broadway to Fourth Avenue and from East 9th to 10th Streets. Abandoning his popular Marble Palace at Broadway and Chambers Street for what many considered an architectural monstrosity sited too far uptown, Stewart proved his critics wrong. The store was painted white inside and out with a dramatic central rotunda topped by a skylit dome, and became the anchor for "Ladies Mile." Twenty years after Stewart's death, the Philadelphia-based John Wanamaker Company bought the store. John Wanamaker Store - New York City (1936 photo by Berenice Abbott, courtesy NYC-Architecture.com) In 1902, John Wanamaker built an equally large annex across 9th Street. A second-story bridge connecting the two—seen at the left of Berenice Abbott's 1936 photograph—was called "The Bridge of Progress." The annex contained the auditorium which was the site of many concerts. Wanamaker's sold the store in 1954, at a time when Herald Square had eclipsed "Ladies Mile" as New York's shopping mecca. Just prior to its demolition in 1956, the building caught fire and burned out of control for a full day before firemen could contain the blaze. The cast-iron construction withstood the fire, only to fall to the wrecker's ball. Today, a 21-story apartment block, built in 1960 and named Stewart House, occupies the site; the 1902 Wanamaker annex is an office building.After the 1904 Austin organ suffered damage from a fire (c.1917-18), the Wanamaker Organ Shop rebuilt and greatly enlarged the organ. The redesigned organ included a new movable console with color-coded stop tablets, and a 13-stop Echo Organ, which was located on third floor and spoke through a tone chute. In 1947 and 1948, the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. of Boston was contracted to provide several additions to the organ. Following the sale and closure of the Wanamaker Store in New York, the organ console was acquired by Rubin Frels, an organ builder in Victoria, Texas -Database Manager
Source: Stoplist from the NYC AGO New York City Organ Project Date not recorded
New York, New York
John Wanamaker Store
Wanamaker Organ Shop 1920 4/118
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GREAT (white tablets) SWELL (aqua)
16' Double Diapason 16' Bourdon
16' Major Diapason 8' Open Diapason
8' Open Diapason I 8' Cathedral Diapason
8' Open Diapason II 8' Stopped Diapason
8' Violin Principal 8' Clarabella
8' Cor de Chamois 8' Chimney Flute
8' Double Flute 8' Dolce Flute
8' Grand Flute 8' Nasard Gamba
8' Flute Harmonic 8' Aeolian Celeste
8' Gamba 8' Vox Angelica
8' Viole d'Amour 4' Traverse Flute
5 1/3' Mutation 4' Mutation
4' Principal 2 2/3' Mutation
4' Octave 2' Mutation
4' Flute Harmonic 1 1/3' Mutation
2 2/3' Mutation IV Compound Mutation *
2' Mutation 16' Double Oboe Horn
1 3/5' Mutation 8' Cornopean
IV Compound Mutation * 8' Oboe
16' Double Trumpet 8' Musette
8' Trumpet 8' Vox Humana
4' Clarion Tremolo I
Tremolo I Tremolo II
Tremolo II
ECHO (yellow) CHOIR (green)
16' Bourdon 16' Contra Viol
8' Open Diapason 8' Open Diapason
8' Stopped Diapason 8' Melodia
8' Gemshorn 8' Concert Flute
8' Salicional 8' Quintaphone
8' Voix Celeste 8' Viole d'Orchestre
4' Flute d'Amour 8' Viole Celeste
2' Piccolo 8' Flute Celeste
8' Oboe 8' Dulciana
8' Euphone 4' Flute Harmonic
8' Vox Humana 4' Violette
Tremolo I 2' Piccolo
Tremolo II 16' Contra Fagotto
Minor Chimes 8' Orchestral Oboe
8' Clarinet
ECHO PEDAL (yellow) 8' Cor Anglais
Tremolo I
16' Bourdon Tremolo II
STRING (brown) SOLO (lavender)
8' String 1 16' Grand Diapason
8' String 2 8' Stentorphone
8' String 3 8' Tibia
8' String 4 8' Flute Harmonic
8' String 5 8' Gamba
Tremolo I 8' Gamba Celeste
Tremolo II 4' Octave
4' Flute Harmonic
PEDAL (black) 2' Piccolo
16' Tuba Profunda
32' Contra Bourdon 8' Tuba Mirabilis
16' Open Diapason I 8' French Horn
16' Open Diapason II 8' Grand Clarinet
16' Contra Flute 4' Tuba Clarion
16' Bourdon I Tremolo I
16' Bourdon II Tremolo II
16' Violone
16' Viole PERCUSSION (white) **
16' Dulciana
10 2/3' Quint Piano on PD
8' Cello Piano on SW
8' Flute I Piano on SW sustained
8' Flute II Celesta on GT
4' Flute Celeste on SW
32' Contra Trombone 15" Celesta on CH
16' Trombone Chimes on GT
16' Fagotto Chimes on CH
8' Tromba Harp on GT
4' Clarion Harp on SW
Harp on CH
* draws the mutation stops
** color of the division to which they are
coupled on the lower half of the tablet
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