Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy: Chapel
Wheeling, WV
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
1930's - Academy buildings (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2009-10-08 - Organ case with keydesk (Photograph by Ryan Stanton, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2009-10-08 - Organ on its rear platform (Photograph by Ryan Stanton, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
ca. 1948 - Organ at the rear of the chapel; taken from the clerestory (Photograph from an archival source: The Wheeling Feeling Co. website, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
Date unknown - Organ with singers (Photograph from an archival source: Centennial Celebration booklet, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
Date Unknown - Nuns during worship in the organ/choir gallery (Photograph from an archival source: The Wheeling Feeling Co. website, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
1865 - Etching of the campus in 1865 (Photograph from an archival source: Centennial Celebration booklet, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
- Console position: Keydesk Attached
- 1 manuals
- 7 stops
- 9 registers
- 2 divisions
- Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
- Stop action Type: Mechanical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
- Manual compass: 56 notes
- Pedal compass: 25 notes
- Pedal Type: Flat Straight
- Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression
Notes
2004-10-30 - From Robert Troeger, posted to OHS Members List courtesy of Dan Colburn: -- <br>There is an urgent need to disseminate information about E. & G. G. Hook Opus 411 (1 manual and pedal, 8 rks) that is for sale at the former Mt. de Chantal Visitation Academy here in Wheeling, West Virginia. The organ dates from 1867 and is in surprisingly good condition, though appropriate restoration is needed. <br>The school (formerly a Catholic girls school and convent) is being sold, and there is an urgent need to relocate the instrument to an owner who will take care of it and perhaps restore it and give it a new home. The instrument has resided in the Academy-s chapel since its installation. ... The whole place-school, chapel, everything-is doomed, and the wrecking ball may come into view by summer or the end of summer. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - From John Speller's post to the OHS Members List, March 22, 2010. -- <br>The instrument is the same as Op. 407, now in Luther Acres Retirement Home in Lititz, Pa., which also has an OHS Citation. I believe the 4 ft. Flute of #411 is marked #407 and vice versa, so they must have gotten mixed up at the factory! The stop list is: <br><br>Manual (56 notes):<br>16' Bourdon 12 pipes)<br>16' Bourdon Treble (44 pipes)<br>8' Stopped Bass (12 pipes)<br>8' Open Diapason (44 pipes)<br>8' Stopped Diapason (44 pipes)<br>8' Keraulophon (44 pipes)<br>4' Octave (56 pipes)<br>4' Flute (56 pipes)<br>II Mixture (112 pipes)<br><br>Pedal (25 notes):<br>Coupler only, no pipes.<br><br>Everything except façade pipes and Bourdon Bass enclosed in a Swell. As I recall the Mixture is 12+15 except for the lowest octave which is 15+22. I'm not sure of the exact dimensions, but they would be something like 7½ ft. wide, 6 ft. deep and 10 to 12 ft. high. -Database Manager
2010-04-20 - Updated through online information from Randall Newman. -Database Manager
2010-06-15 - Updated through online information from Ryan Stanton. -- Items from the Mount are being auctioned off. -Database Manager
2011-12-12 - Updated through online information from Mrs. Kim Loccisano. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Source: From The Stopt Diapason Spring 2010
Wheeling, West Virginia
Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy Chapel,
E. & G. G. Hook, Opus 411, 1867
MANUAL (Expressive)
[16'] Bourdon 12
[16'] Bourdon Treble (tc) 44
[8'] Open Diapason (tc) 44
[8'] Keraulophon (tc) 44
[8'] Stopped Diapason (tc) 44
[8'] Stopped Bass 12
[4'] Octave 56
[4'] Flute 56
[II] Mixture 122
PEDAL (25 notes)
No independent registers. Just a
manual-to-pedal coupler
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Expression [hitch-down]
NOTES
Housed in a chestnut case with with a walnut key desk.
All except for bottom 12 pipes of the 16' Bourdon, are
enclosed in a swell box. Stenciled facade pipes.
[Received from Connor Annable 2011-08-18.]
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