DEFUNCT

DEFUNCT   SITE

  DEFUNCT

CHICAGO - MA : USA - IL

*Location:

   Michigan Avenue Baptist Church,
   later Immanuel Baptist Church (1880-?)
   2320 South Michigan Avenue,
     at 23rd Street
   Chicago, Illinois, USA
   LL: N 41.8509, W 87.6239
Site locator map is not applicable for defunct sites.

*Remarks:

   Building demolished; fate of chime
   is unknown.

*Technical data:

   Chime-sized instrument or collection, no longer in existence (defunct), of 17 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is D  in the middle octave
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is unknown
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1870
     with bells made by Jones            
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1994
*Links:

More information about this defunct site may be available on the page of North American sites that are no more.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Jones bellfoundry.

Why this chime was a milestone in North American chime history (1870).

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  5-Jul-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2009/08/12
   and on technical data last updated on 1995/04/01
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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