Walton High School - Bronx, New York
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Walton High School

2780 Reservoir Avenue
The Bronx, N.Y. 10468





Walton High School is named after Mary Walton, the wife of General Lewis Morris, who was a member of the continental congress and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. During the colonial period, Mary Walton was governess of a school for girls as well as a successful landowner. The Walton School was reorganized into one of the first junior high schools for girls in New York City (April 19, 1923). 126 girls were part of the first graduating class from there on January 27, 1926. In 1976, Walton became a coeducational High School. Walton High School is now being phased out, to be occupied by smaller schools. In 2003, the Celia Cruz Bronx School of Music was relocated to the Walton High School building, serving as home base for 250 students who also spend three days a week at Lehman College, where they receive orchestral and choral instruction.
               
Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co., Inc.
Boston, Mass. – Opus 959 (1937)
Electro-pneumatic action
3 manuals, 38 registers, 34 stops, 38 ranks


The status of this organ is unknown.
               
Great Organ (Manual II) – 61 notes
16
   Sub Principal
61
4
   Octave
61
8
   Principal
61
4
   Gemshorn
61
8
   Diapason
61
2 2/3
   Twelfth
61
8
   Flute Harmonique
61
2
   Fifteenth
61
8
   Gemshorn
61
     Chimes  

     

     
Swell Organ (Manual III) – 61 notes, enclosed
16
   Echo Lieblich
73
     Mixture IV ranks
244
8
   Geigen Principal
73
16
   Fagotto
73
8
   Stopped Diapason
73
8
   Trumpet
73
8
   Salicional
73
8
   Oboe
73
8
   Voix Celeste (TC)
61
8
   Vox Humana
73
8
   Flute Celeste II ranks
134
4
   Clarion
73
4
   Flute Triangulaire
73
     Tremolo  
               
Choir Organ (Manual I) – 61 notes, enclosed
8
   Viola
73
2
   Piccolo
61
8
   Orchestral Flute
73
8
   Clarinet
73
8
   Erzähler
73
  Tremolo  
8
   Kleine Erzähler (TC)
61
8
   Harp (TC)
—
4
   Flauto Traverso
73
4
  
Celesta
61 bars
               
Pedal Organ – 32 notes
32
   Bourdon (resultant)
—
8
   Octave
32
16
   Diapason
32
8
   Flute Couverte
32
16
   Bourdon
32
8
   Cello
32
16
   Sub Principal
GT
16
   Fagotto
SW
16
   Echo Lieblich
SW
     Chimes
GT
               
Sources:
     Aeolian-Skinner Archives website: http://aeolianskinner.organsociety.org/Specs/Op00959.html
     Kinzey, Allen, and Sand Lawn, comps. E.M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List. New Rev. Ed. Richmond: The Organ Historical Society, 1997.

Illustration:
     Henderson, Jim. Exterior (2008).