The factory — where the organs of Verizon Hall at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, St. Thomas Fifth Avenue in New York, Merton College Chapel in Oxford, and the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles were built — burned to the ground last week. While scans of the company’s final design drawings still exist, completely lost are the instrument then under construction (destined for Sydney); all supplies, tools, and treated wood and metal for pipes; and all preliminary and intermediate design sketches and archived photos of every instrument Dobson has built. – The New York Times
