Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind [later, Overbrook School for the Blind]: Auditorium
6333 Malvern Avenue
Philadelphia: Overbrook, PA
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
1903 - “Pupils Assembled in the Auditorium, 1903”. The photo appears in the Tracker, v 29 #4. The person at the podium is assumed to be Charles Haskell (Photograph from an archival source: Annual Report, Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, 1905, Philadelphia, PA, submitted by Jeff Fowler/Jeff Fowler)
unknown, n.d. - Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind relocated in this Spanish Renaissance building designed by Cope & Stewardson, 1898-1899 (Photograph from an archival source: Free Library of Philadelphia Digital Collection, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
1905-12-21 - Stop List (Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind 1905 Annual Report/Jeff Fowler)
approx. 1903 - “Pupils Assembled in the Auditorium, 1903”. The person at the podium is assumed to be Charles Haskell | Photograph from an archival source: Annual Report, Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, 1905, Philadelphia, PA. (The photo appears in the Tracker, v 29 #4. Submitted by Jeff Fowler/Jim Stettner)
Notes
2021-12-03 - 1898: Built by Charles S. Haskell, and appeared on an opus list published by the firm in *The Diapason*, January, 1909.
1905-09: Built by Charles E. Haskell, and appeared on an opus list published by the firm in *The Diapason*, January, 1909.
Unknown what additional work the firm carried out after Charles S. Haskell died. Replaced in 1939 by Moller Opus 6724.
-Paul R. Marchesano
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