ca. 1920's - School exterior (Vintage postcard/Jim Stettner)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2024-12-02 - Identified from "Organ for High School," The Diapason, January 1922, 21: A small two-manual organ, but one that promises to be exceedingly effective, has been ordered of the Votteler-Holtkamp-Sparling Company of Cleveland by the West high school of Minneapolis. Funds for the organ were obtained by the school glee club in public entertainments. At the opera “Pinafore,” given on Lake Calhoun shore in June, $2,000 was raised. The club will present “The Chimes of Normandy” at the city auditorium early in 1922 and expects the revenue to be sufficient to round out the $2,500 fund necessary. “Every high school and junior high school in Minneapolis should have an organ,” E. L. Baker, director of the glee club, said. The installation of the organ was announced in "West High Pipe Organ Installation This Week," Minneapolis Journal, Sunday, April 2, 1922, City Life Section, 1 (Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/811045674), without the name of the builder: Work of installing the $2,500 pipe organ in West high school, for which most of the funds have been raised by student athletic and choral activities, will be begun this week, faculty members said last night. The organ will be installed in the auditorium and may be in place before the graduation time early in June. Accumulation of funds to pay for the organ has been going on for about two years. Minneapolis Public Schools closed West High School in 1982. The fate of the organ is unknown. -Charles Eberline
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