St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
Baraboo, WI
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
ca. 2004 - 16' Double Open and 16' Bourdon behind the swellbox. (Photograph from an archival source: Photo by the Church or its agent when for sale, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
ca. 2004 - Left stopjamb (Photograph from an archival source: Photo by the Church or its agent when for sale, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
ca. 2004 - Keydesk from the bass end (Photograph from an archival source: Photo by the Church or its agent when for sale, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
ca. 2004 - Organ case in rear gallery (Photograph by Photo by the Church or its agent when for sale, 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
Notes
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1988. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Built for Otto Bollman residence in St. Louis, MO in 1895. Sold c. 1899 to John Ringling for his residence in Baraboo, WI. Donated by Mrs. Ringling in 1916 to this church. -Database Manager
2005-06-23 - As of 2005 the organ has been removed from the church, is in storage, and is for sale. -Database Manager
2009-09-03 - Updated through online information from Richard C Greene. -- In fall, 2009 the instrument was still in storage at the Hendrickson Organ Co in St. Peter, MN. -Database Manager
2018-02-27 - Updated by Fred Dahlinger Jr., naming this as the source of information: Baraboo (WI) Weekly News, April 27, 1922, p2.<br>
Corrected entry--Built for Otto Bollman residence in St. Louis, MO in 1895. Sold ca. 1900 to Alf T. and Adella [Della] Ringling for their new residence in Baraboo, WI. Donated by Adella Ringling and her son, Richard T. Ringling, in 1922 to this church. Re-installed in the reinforced church gallery by Robert Aton. N.B. The 1911 [elsewhere] and 1916 dates for the relocation are in error. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Typed stoplist. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Baraboo, Wisconsin.
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
FARRAND & VOTEY, Opus 758, 1895 - Original Specifications
Geo. Kilgen & Sons, ca. 1905 - Reinstallation of used Farrand & Votey
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 containing
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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