Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2017-05-17 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ.<br> Identified by James R. Stettner, listing conversations with this person as the source of the information: Organ builder Sebastian M. Gluck posted a photo of the organ on his Facebook page..<br>Seattle's Shafer Baillie Mansion (now a boutique hotel) is a 1914 brick and half-timbered Tudor Revival historic structure on Seattle-s original Millionaires- Row. Its name honors two early owners: Alexander Baillie, a Scottish immigrant who introduced golf to the western United States, and Julius Shafer, of the Shafer Brothers land company, who purchased the house in 1928. However, a 1913 newspaper article on display in the Inn library, written shortly before the house was built, shows that the original owner was actually Samuel Loeb, president of the Independent Brewing Company. He sold the property to Mr. Baillie in about 1917 as Prohibition was looming. From the Inn website, "The Shafers entertained lavishly, and at that time, the third floor held a ballroom and pipe organ. In 1952, Burell and Emma Johnson purchased the mansion and used it as a rooming house. The ballroom was divided into three bedrooms with private baths." so it seems likely that the organ was removed ca. 1952. An extant photo of the organ in the Ballroom seems to suggest it might have been a W.W. Kimball Co. instrument with an attached keydesk. The playing action was likely tubluar-pneumatic. -Database Manager
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