George Sherman Residence 16 West 20th Street New York, N.Y. 10001 George Sherman was a banker who graduated from Columbia University in 1875. He was President and Director of the Building and Sanitary Inspection Co., Vice President and Trustee of Central Trust Co., and director or trustee of many other companies. His residence at 16 West 20th Street, near Fifth Avenue, was previously the home of his father, Benjamin Sherman, a merchant.
Click on image to enlarge Aeolian Company New York City – Opus 753 (1894) Electro-pneumatic action 2 manuals, 12 stops, 11 ranks "As shown in photograph, this organ is divided into two sections, one on either side of the parlor, each section taking up space seven feet wide, four feet deep, and elevent feet high. Console containing keyboards, combined with Aeolian mechanism, is situated at a distance from the organ. Bellows of the instrument is placed in the cellar and operated by an electric motor. Case is of a very handsome design, lower part being solid mahogany and upper structure white-enameled woodwork, surmounted by symmetrically arranged groups and towers of display pipes decorated in gold leaf. This plan of installing the organ is certainly unique and shows what can be done in existing residences by installing an Aeolian Pipe-organ conveniently without its appearing uncomfortable or unwieldy, as it would if constructed in one section in present instance."                 Great Organ (Manual I) – 58 notes 8   Open Diapason 58 8   Aeoline 58 8   Melodia 58 4   Flauto Traverso 58                 Swell Organ (Manual II) – 58 notes, enclosed 8   Viol di Gamba 58 4   Gemshorn 58 8   Dolce 58 2   Piccolo Harmonique 58 8   Lieblich Gedeckt 58 8   Oboe 58                 Pedal Organ – 30 notes 16   Bourdon 30 8   Flute [ext.] 12                 Couplers     Swell to Great   Great Octaves     Swell to Great Sub-octave   Swell to Pedal     Swell to Great Super-octave   Great to Pedal     Swell Octaves                     Accessories     Swell Tremulant   Aeolian Ventil     Motor-starter   Aeolian Tempo         Aeolian Reroll           Pedal Movements     Great Organ Piano   Great to Pedal-reversing Pedal     Great Organ Forte   Balanced Crescendo Pedal     Swell Organ Piano         and Full Organ Pedal     Swell Organ Forte   Balanced Swell Pedal
Sources:      Aeolian Company brochure. Specifications and photo of Aeolian Organ, Op. 753 (1894) in George Sherman Residence, New York City. Courtesy James Lewis.      Biographical Directory of the State of New York 1900. New York: Biographical Directory Company, 1900.      Smith, Rollin. The Aeolian Pipe Organ and its Music. Richmond: The Organ Historical Society, 1998. Illustration:      Aeolian Company brochure: Aeolian Organ, Op. 753 (1894) in George Sherman Residence, New York City. Courtesy James Lewis.
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