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Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc. (1900 ca.)

Residence: Ringling, Alfred T. & Adella: Music Room
Baraboo, WI

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

Images

ca. 1920's - Mansion exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, 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
2 manuals
22 stops
23 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Has combination toe pistons

Notes

2020-12-27 - Identified through online information from Rollin Smith, citing a c. 1906 Kilgen brochure with a photo of the organ. -Jim Stettner

2020-12-27 - That the organ appears in a Kilgen brochure would suggest it was installed by Kilgen. And coincidentally, the organ was originally built for the St. Louis residence of Otto Bollman. The organ was donated by the Ringlings in 1922 to St. Joseph R.C. Church in Baraboo, and was well documented as having been built by Farrand & Votey. -Jim Stettner

Stoplist

Source: Source not recorded

Baraboo, Wisconsin
Residence: Ringling, Alfred T. & Adella

FARRAND & VOTEY, Opus 758, 1895 - Original Specifications
Geo. Kilgen & Son, Inc., ca. 1900 - Re-installation


GREAT (Expressive Except (*)                 COUPLERS (Drawknob)
8'  Open Diapason  (*)           61          Swell to Pedal
8'  Viol d'Gamba                 61          Great to Pedal
8'  Concert Flute                61
8'  Dulciana                     61          Swell to Great
4'  Gemshorn                     61          Swell to Great Octave
4'  Flute d'Amour                61
2'  Super Octave                 61
8'  Clarinet                     61          FOOT TRUNDLES
                                             6 combos
                                             4 blind combos (?)
SWELL (Expressive)
16' Bourdon                      61
8'  Violin Diapason              61          PEDAL MOVEMENTS
8'  Salicional                   61          Expression                 (bal.)
8'  Stopped Diapason             61
8'  Aeoline                      61
8'  Vox Celeste                  61
4'  Flute Harmonique             61
2'  Flageolet                    61
III Dolce Cornet                183
8'  Oboe                         61
8'  Vox Humana                   61          ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop
    Tremulant
                                             VOICES: 22

PEDAL                                        STOPS: 23
16' Wood Open Diapason           30
16' Bourdon                      30          RANKS: 24
16' Lieblich               (Sw)  --
 8' Violon cello                 30          PIPES: 1,371

Bellows Signal


NOTES
Originally built for the Otto Bollman residence in St. Louis, Missouri.
Sold to the Ringlings ca. 1900 and installed in their Baraboo, Wisconsin
home by Geo. Kilgen & Sons of St. Louis. In 1922, the organ was given by
the Ringlings to St. Joseph R.C. Church in Baraboo.

The organ is free-standing and encased with a 5-sectional façade contain-
ing 69 pipes arranged: 6-5-47-5-6. The center section of 47 pipes is divided
into an upper and lower façade with the upper having 17 full-length pipes,
and the lower façade being two arched sections of 15 pipes each. The keydesk
is attached and projecting with stops taking the form of drawknobs on either
side of the keydesk.

The organ was removed by 2005 and was in storage at the Hendrickson Organ Co.
in St. Peter, Minnesota.

Sources: OHS Database 


St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
300 2nd St. 
Baraboo, WI. 53913                           Documented: December 27, 2020

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