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Builder: Unknown, 1885. Manuals: Ranks: Action: Electro-pneumatic Notes: This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ identified by William Dunklin, citing information from a vintage post card. The post card, mailed in 1910, shows the substantial pipe organ with attached console standing at the left side of the chapel's stage. LINK: https://pipeorgandatabase.org/static/organ_images/IA/Eldora.StateIndustr.UnknownBui.0616.225819.jpg The facility was chartered as a "reform school" shortly after the Civil War (1868 and opened in 1872). Later moved to the current Eldora campus in the 1880s. A report on the school written in the early 20th-century indicates that the chapel was in existence before 1898. Organ builder unknown, but probably a tracker (mechanical) instrument. Current photos of the campus imply that no Victorian era buildings remain, though the school is still operating as of 2017 as a training facility. Organ Historical Society a17s of 20. |
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