Roosevelt Organ Works
{{Short description|American pipe organ manufacturer}}
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Roosevelt Organ Works was an American manufacturer of pipe organs. It was founded by Hilborne Roosevelt (1849–1886) and his younger brother, Frank Roosevelt (1862–1895), in 1872.{{cite web |url=https://pipeorgandatabase.org/BuilderDetails.php?BuilderID=5313 |title=Roosevelt Organ Works [Hilborne Roosevelt Organs] |publisher= Organ Historical Society |accessdate=September 19, 2018}} It operated in New York City, with branches in Baltimore and Philadelphia. The brothers built some of the largest organs in the United States during their career, and many today are still prized for their quality and tone. The company was in operation until 1893.{{cite web|url=http://www.nycago.org/Organs/NYC/html/StJosephRCYorkville.html|title=Church of St. Joseph - Yorkville|work=The New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists}}
The Roosevelt brothers were among the first to introduce electricity into organ building.
Partial list of works
Roosevelt organ installations include the following:
- Chapel of Immaculate Conception, College of Mount Saint Vincent, Riverdale, Bronx, New York (Opus 4 II/16 - 1873/1880)
- Episcopal Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City, New York
- Trinity Church, New York, New York
- Church of the Holy Communion, New York, New York
- All Saints Roman Catholic Church, Harlem, New York
- Old First Reformed Church, Brooklyn, New York
- Christ Church, Glendale, Ohio
- Grace Protestant Episcopal Church, New York, New York
- First Presbyterian Church (Buffalo, New York)
- First Presbyterian Church, New York, New York{{cite web |title=The Guilmant Organ School at First Church |url=http://www.fpcnyc.org/guilmant.html |publisher=First Presbyterian Church |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080520180412/http://www.fpcnyc.org/guilmant.html |archivedate=2008-05-20 }}
- Grace & St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Maryland
- First Baptist Church in America, Providence, Rhode Island (Opus 150){{cite web |url=http://www.firstbaptistchurchinamerica.org/?page_id=131|title=Foley-Baker Organ |publisher=First Baptist Church in America |accessdate=2008-04-28}}
- First Baptist Church, Nashville, Tennessee, (Opus 291 - 1885)
- Elberon Memorial Church, erected 1886 as a memorial to Moses Taylor Elberon, New Jersey.http://elberonmemorialchurch.com
- Trinity United Methodist Church, 1820 Broadway, Denver Colorado (1888) (Op. 380)
- La Compañía de Jesús Church, Quito, Ecuador (1888) 1104 pipes.
- Trinity Church, Kansas City, Missouri (1888) (Both the church building and the organ were destroyed.)
- First Methodist Church, Boulder, Colorado (Opus 382){{cite web |title=Organ |url=http://www.fumcboulder.org/organ.jsp |publisher=First United Methodist Church of Boulder |accessdate=2008-04-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724185816/http://www.fumcboulder.org/organ.jsp |archivedate=2008-07-24 }}
- Memorial Presbyterian Church, St. Augustine, Florida (1890){{cite web |title=Organ Historical Society Database|url=http://database.organsociety.org/SingleOrganDetails.php?OrganID=29638}}
- [https://www.fpc-wb.org/ First Presbyterian Church of Wilkes-Barre], Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (1890), No. 409{{Cite book |last=Ogren |first=Robert |title=The First Presbyterian Church of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: History of the Sanctuary |publisher=First Presbyterian Church of Wilkes-Barre |year=1998 |pages=94–95}}
- St, James Roman Catholic Church, Chicago, Illinois (1891){{cite web |title=Organ Historical Society - Historic Citation #50 |url=http://www.ohschicago.org/Organs/StJamesRC-Chgo.html|publisher=Organ Historical Society, Chicago-Midwest Chapter |accessdate=2008-04-28}}
- St. Peter's Episcopal Church, New York (Opus 515 - 1892){{cite web |title=St. Peter's Episcopal Church |url=http://www.nycago.org/Organs/NYC/html/StPeterEpisChelsea.html |publisher=American Guild of Organists, New York City Chapter |accessdate=2008-04-28 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080724151447/http://www.nycago.org/Organs/NYC/html/StPeterEpisChelsea.html |archivedate = 2008-07-24}}
- Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Syracuse, New York (1892)
- Cathedral of the Assumption, (later "Basilica") Baltimore, Maryland (1884) Op. 143, tracker action to ventil windchests.
- Saugerties Reformed Church in Saugerties, New York (1892), Opus 530.{{Cite journal |last=Bates |first=J. Barrington |date=2015 |title=Tenebrae, Drama, Passion, Music, Broadway Cast, Free: Maundy Thursday at Saugerties Reformed Church |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43685108 |journal=Anglican and Episcopal History |volume=84 |issue=2 |pages=207–210 |jstor=43685108 |issn=0896-8039}}
- St. Dominic Church in Washington, DC (1885){{Cite web|url=http://www.stdominicchurch.org/roosevelt-organ.html|title=Roosevelt Organ|website=St. Dominic Catholic Church|language=en|access-date=2019-08-13}}
- Crouse College, Syracuse University in Syracuse New York{{cite news |title=Syracuse |location=Buffalo, New York |page=19 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/343945822/ |accessdate=18 October 2020 |work=Buffalo Morning Express and Illustrated Buffalo Express |via=Newspapers.com |date=June 16, 1889 |language=en}}
- Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis, Missouri{{Cite journal |date=August 1, 1926 |title=St. Louis Cathedral Gives Skinner Order |url=https://www.thediapason.com/sites/thediapason/files/192608TheDiapason.pdf |journal=The Diapason |location=Chicago |volume=17 |issue=9 |page=9}}
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Category:Manufacturing companies established in 1872
Category:Pipe organ building companies
Category:Manufacturing companies disestablished in 1893
Category:1872 establishments in New York City
Category:1893 disestablishments in New York (state)
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Category:Musical instrument manufacturing companies based in New York City