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Builder: Kimball Organ Co, 1922 Ranks: 13 ? Action: Electropneumatic Notes: The mansion was built in 1911 for Milton B. Kerr, sales manager for the Northwestern Knitting Company (Munsingwear). In 1922 Edward Wellington Backus (1860-1934) purchased the home and added a huge music room and the Kimball in basement chambers. Backus was a lumberman and paper milling magnate who made and lost a fortune in the north woods and has a small town in northern Minnesota named after him. The home sold in 1984 for $511,500 to Virgil T. Fallon, MD, then willed it to the caretaker on his death in 2010. Eventually the Kimball went to Andrew/Riverside Presbyterian Church and from there to the home of Michael LuBrant in Hastings. The house still exists and now houses a 3-rank Wicks above the entry foyer on the 2nd floor (chamber photo below). The house recently sold (2022). --Information from Jay and Dale Engquist |
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