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New National Hotel: The Dutch Room
205-215 S. Washington Avenue
Minneapolis, MN

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

Images

Unknown - Organ facade in restaurant background. (Photograph by Postcard, submitted by Zenas Savage/Zenas Savage)

Notes

2022-08-21 - This entry represents the 2nd-hand installation of an organ built for the 1901 Buffalo, NY. Pan-Pacific Exposition. -Jim Stettner

Websites

Star Tribune - "The restaurant also offered something even more unusual: a pipe organ that had once graced the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition, a World’s Fair held in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1901. The hotel’s owner bought the organ (reputedly for $5,000) after the fair ended and had it shipped to Minneapolis and installed in the Dutch Room. An organist named Freddie Brown played at lunch and dinner, mixing classical and popular pieces for the enjoyment of diners. Occasionally, members of traveling shows staying at the hotel would join in the fun, staging impromptu performances as Brown went through his paces." (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

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