Ernest M. Skinner Company
Opus 245, 1916

Emmanuel Church, Episcopal / Church of the Transfiguration, Episcopal

8614 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH, US

28 Ranks - 1,924 Pipes
Instrument ID: 5950 ● Builder ID: 7401 ● Location ID: 5649
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Builder: Ernest M. Skinner Company
Position: Unknown
Design: Traditional With Roll Top
Pedalboard Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Features:
4 Manuals (61 Notes)32 Note Pedal5 Divisions27 Stops45 RegistersElectrical Key ActionElectrical Stop Action✓ Crescendo✓ Combination Thumb Piston(s)✓ Combination Toe Piston(s)✓ Coupler Toe Piston(s)

Stop Layout: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination Action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Control System: Unknown or N/A

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This instrument is: Not Extant and Not Playable in this location

Brad Engelland on June 15th, 2024:
From Rev'd John Richard Hendricks: A modified Gothic Episcopal Church On Euclid Ave. in Cleveland Ohio's “Millionaires Row”. Built: 1901 Destroyed: 2014. The deserted structure was purchased by the Cleveland Clinic. The Cleveland Clinic Holiday Inn now located on this property. http://www.historyeveryday.org/church-of-the-transfiguration--cle.html. “the demolition of the Church of the Transfiguration a grave misfortune for Clevelanders who wish to find glimpses of the past that harken back to the golden age of their city”. Episcopal Bishop Mark Hollingsworth closed “the dilapidated and deteriorated church". The church was designed by famous architects Cram, Goodhue, & Ferguson, who were noted for their Gothic Revival buildings all throughout North America. Cleveland Clinic also purchased the Cleveland OH Euclid Ave Church of God and the Euclid Ave Congregation Church.

Database Manager on April 4th, 2014:
Updated through online information from Jim Hopkins. -- Emmanual Episcopal Church merged with Church of the Incarnation, Cleveland in 1991 and was re-named Church of the Transfiguration, although they remained in Emmanuel's Euclid Ave. building. Demolition of Emmanuel Episcopal Church was completed in January, 2014.

Database Manager on December 19th, 2013:
Updated through online information from Scott Hayes. -- 20 some partial and complete ranks were removed from the church building on December 9, and placed into storage. Many stops are missing their bottom octaves, and several reed stops were severely damaged. The hope is to restore them for eventual reuse in the future Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland choir organ.

Database Manager on November 21st, 2013:
Updated through online information from Ronald D. Gibson. -- 20 November, 2013. The organ is endangered. Building and land were abandoned previously now acquired by The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Cleveland Landmarks Commission has authorized the Cleveland Clinic Foundation to order demolition, perhaps within several months. Residue of the organ is available for sale.

Database Manager on September 16th, 2013:
Updated through online information from Ronald Gibson. -- Organ (residue) currently; (September, 2013), endangered! Abandoned church building. 4-manual Console/bench missing. Half of the organ is inadequately stored in the church basement for many years and has suffered some moisture damage. Pipe ranks may be nearly complete but some trebles are missing. Overall condition is poor.

Database Manager on December 22nd, 2005:
Updated through information adapted from *E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List*, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: After 1957 fire console removed; pipework subsequently removed in 1988 by David Dortch.

Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Status Note: There 1991.

Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Church merged with another. Used Hammond c. 1991. Console damaged in fire.

Webpage Links: Opus 245: Emmanuel Episcopal Church

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