Cordenio Severance Residence

6940 Keats Avenue South, Cottage Grove, MN 55016
Saint Paul (Cottage Grove), MN 55102
(The Severance family had residences both "in town" (St. Paul proper) and in Cottage Grove (their "country" home. Records indicate both residences had Aeolian instruments at one time. It could be an organ was moved to the Cottage Grove mansion, where it is still extant [as of 2020].)
Builder: Wurlitzer
Manuals: 2
Ranks: 18
Action: Electro-pneumatic

Notes: With piano and electronic string bass. The original home of the organ was the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, IL, where it was installed in 1931. It is a gold waterfall console, installed at Cedarhurst by Terry Kleven.
-- "The Land o'Lakes Clarion", September, 1974