Kimball Organ Company: Kimball Hall
25 E. Jackson Boulevard
Chicago, IL
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
1915 - Drawing of a proposed recital hall with the chairs, in the foreground and the stage with piano and organ in front in the background (Photograph from an archival source: Special Collections and Archives Department of DePaul University Library, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
ca. 1956 - Kimball Hall. Interior view of recital hall with the rows of seats in the foreground and the stage with curtain in the background (Photograph from an archival source: Special Collections and Archives Department of DePaul University Library, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
Notes
2023-03-01 - [The] instrument was replaced in 1940 with the present organ, which was built by the W.W. Kimball Co. of Chicago, Illinois, in 1933 for its Kimball Hall, a well-known recital venue in Chicago's Loop. Kimball Hall was home to a number of the builder's instruments over several decades, which were sold when a more up-to-date instrument was needed for demonstration purposes. Kimball relocated the organ to Zion Church and placed it behind a five-flat Gothic facade of pipes that matched the new altar and pulpit, carved by Alois Lang, a master carver of Oberammergau, Germany, who executed commissions for the American Seating Company. The organ was dedicated with the church on September 29, 1940. -- *2007 OHS Atlas* -Paul R. Marchesano
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