Paul Watkins Family Residence

175 East Wabasha Street
Winona, MN 55987
(This mansion later become the University of Minnesota Retirement Home and still operates as a retirement residence. The Aeolian Op. 1551 is listed in both entries. The Watson family original donated the mansion to the Methodist Foundation as a retirement home. The Watson family owned Watson Chemical Co. in Winona.)
Builder: Aeolian Organ Co., Op. 1551, 1924.
Manuals: 4
Ranks: Unknown
Action: Electro-pneumatic

Notes: The Watkins Manor House, now a retirement facility, is an historic mansion in Winona, Minnesota. It was built from 1924-1927 for Paul Watkins (1865–1931), the 2nd-generation leader of the J.R. Watkins Company and progenitor of its famous door-to-door sales strategy. It was designed in the Jacobethan style by architect Ralph Adams Cram. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 as the Paul Watkins House for having local significance in the themes of architecture and commerce. It was nominated for its associations with Paul Watkins and the Watkins Company, and for its architecture, being a rare and unaltered example of a house designed by an architect better known for his churches and institutional buildings.

The manor is now part of a senior housing complex, containing apartments and community spaces.

Organ Historical Society as of 20.
Duplexed, except as noted.

CHOIR ORGAN (Man I) and GREAT ORGAN (Man II) (enclosed together)
16 Diapason (Gt only, exposed)
16 Dulciana (Ch only)
8 Diapason FF (Gt only, exposed)
8 Diapason F
8 Flute F
8 Flute P
8 Flute Vibrato (celeste)
8 String F
8 String P
8 Dulciana
8 Dulciana Vibrato (celeste)
4 Flute
2 Piccolo
Mixture V (Gt only)
16 Trumpet (Gt only)
8 Trumpet
8 Clarinet
Chimes
8 Harp
4 Harp
Tremolo (affects both divisions)

SWELL ORGAN (Man III, enclosed)
16 Flute
8 Diapason
8 Diapason Vibrato (celeste)
8 String F
8 String F Vibrato (celeste)
8 String MF
8 String P Vibrato (celeste)
8 String PP
8 Flute
4 String Vibrato II (celeste)
4 Flute
2 Flageolet
String Mixture V
16 Contra Fagotto
8 Cornopean
8 Oboe
8 Orchestral Oboe
8 Vox Humana
Tremolo

SOLO ORGAN (Man IV, enclosed with Echo)
8 Diapason
8 String
8 String Vibrato (celeste)
8 Tuba
8 French Horn
8 English Horn
8 Musette
Tremolo

ECHO ORGAN (playable on Man IV, enclosed, alternate stops on Manual IV and floats to Choir, Great and Swell)
8 Diapason
8 String
8 Vibrato String
8 Flute
8 Flute Vibrato
4 Flute
8 Vox Humana
Tremolo

ANTIPHONAL ORGAN (enclosed, floats and playable on Ch, Gt, and Sw)
16 Flute
8 Diapason
8 Flute F
8 Flute P
8 String MF
8 8 String MF Vibrato
8 String PP
4 Flute
4 String
V String Mixture
8 Vox Humana
Tremolo

STRING ORGAN (enclosed and plays as a 6 rank block on the division chosen).
16 String
8 String F
8 String F Vibrato Tuned sharp
8 String MF
8 String MF Vibrato Tuned flat
4 String

*VIBRATO ORGAN (*prepared only/never installed).
8 Flute*
8 Vibrato Flute*
8 Dulciana FF*
8 Dulciana F Vibrato*
8 Dulciana MF*
8 Dulciana MF Vibrato*
2 Flageolet*
String Mixture V*
8 Vox Humana*
Tremolo

*VOX HUMANA CHOIR ORGAN (*prepared only/never installed)
16 Bass Vox Humana*
8 Tenor Vox Humana*
8 Alto Vox Humana*
8+4 Soprano Vox Humana*

PEDAL ORGA
32 Open Diapason (wood)
16 First Open Diapason (from 32' Open)
16 Second Open Diapason (Gt)
16 Violone
16 Dulciana (Ch)
16 Flute F
16 Flute P (Sw)
8 Flute Ext Flute F
8 String Ext Violone
32 Bombarde (prepared only/never installed)
16 Trombone
16 Contra Fagotto