St. Mark's was designed by parishioner and architect Edwin Hawley Hewitt in a neo-Gothic style and built not far from the city center on Loring Park. The official opening took place in 1910. Within a few years the number of parishioners rose to over a thousand. St. Mark's did not receive its cathedral status until 1941 when the bishopric was moved from the Cathedral of Our Merciful Savior in Faribault to Minneapolis.
The cathedral hosted the 1976 General Convention of the Episcopal Church, which allowed the ordination of women and which adopted the Book of Common Prayer in the United States in its current version. After there had been heated arguments in advance about the question of whether practicing homosexuals should be ordained bishops, the Episcopal Church elected Gene Robinson , an openly homosexual clergyman for the first time, as Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire at the 2003 General Convention in St. Mark's .
Furnishing
The history of the organs in the cathedral goes back to the 19th century. The current instrument was built in 2013 by the organ building company Foley-Baker Inc., reusing pipe material from the previous instruments, in particular by the organ builders Welte (1928), Kimball (1930) and MPMoeller (1961/1965/1976). The organ has 87 registers divided into four manual works (main, swell, choir and solo work) and pedal. In addition, the instrument has a positive, which can be coupled to all manuals as a "floating division", and an "antiphonal organ" with main and pedal parts. The playing and stop actions are electro-pneumatic.
I Great Organ C – c 4
Double Open Diapason0
16 ′
(n)
Open diapason
08th'
(W)
Principal
08th'
(n)
Gemshorn
08th'
(M)
Pipe flood
08th'
(M)
Harmonic flute
08th'
(n)
Octave
04 ′
(n)
High tide
04 ′
(M)
Twelfth
02 2 ⁄ 3 ′0
(n)
Fifteenth
02 ′
(n)
Furniture IV
(n)
Cornet III
(n)
Double trumpet
16 ′
(n)
Trumpet
08th'
(n)
Clarion
04 ′
(n)
tremolo
Chimes
Harp
II Swell Organ C – c 4
Double melody
16 ′
(W)
Open diapason
08th'
(W)
Stopped diapason0
08th'
(n)
Gamba
08th'
(n)
Gamba Celeste
08th'
(n)
Dolce
08th'
(M)
Dolce Celeste
08th'
(M)
Octave
04 ′
(W)
Harmonic flute
04 ′0
(n)
Principal
02 ′
(M)
Mixture IV-V
(M)
oboe
08th'
(W)
Vox Humana
08th'
(W)
trombone
16 ′
(W)
Trumpet
08th'
(W)
Clarion
04 ′
(W)
tremolo
III Choir Organ C – c 4
diapason
16 ′
(W)
Covered
08th'
(M)
Viole
08th'
(M)
Viole Celeste
08th'
(M)
Octave
04 ′
(M)
Paddock
04 ′
(M)
Nazard
02 2 ⁄ 3 ′0
(M)
Recorder
02 ′
(M)
Tierce
01 3 ⁄ 5 ′
(M)
Sifflote
01'
(M)
Petite trumpet 0
16 ′
(M)
Trumpet (ext)
08th'
English horn
08th'
(M)
Harp
IV Solo Organ C – c 4
Contra Viole (Ext)
16 ′
Claribella
08th'
(W)
Viole da Gamba
08th'
(M)
Viole
08th'
(K)
Viole Celeste
08th'
(K)
Viole (Ext)
04 ′
Corno d'Amour
08th'
(K)
Clarinet
08th'
(K)
Trumpet Harmonique0
08th' 0
(M)
Clarion Harmonique
04 ′
(M)
tuba
08th'
(W)
tremolo
Positive (floating) C-c 4
Copula
08th'
(M)
Flat flute
04 ′ 0
(M)
Principal
02 ′
(M)
Scharff IV
(M)
Krummhorn0000000000
08th'
(M)
Pedal Organ C – g 1
Bourdon
32 ′
Lovely covered
32 ′
Open Wood
16 ′
(W)
Principal
16 ′
(W)
Bourdon
16 ′
(W)
Double melody
16 ′
Gamba
16 ′
(W)
Principal (Ext)
08th'
Bourdon (Ext)
08th'
Gamba (ext)
08th'
Choral bass
04 ′
(M)
Bourdon (Ext)
04 ′
Principal (Ext)
02 ′
Contra bombs
32 ′ 0
(M)
Bombard
16 ′
(M)
Double trumpet0
16 ′
trombone
16 ′
Bombarde (Ext)
08th'
Trumpet (ext)
08th'
Bombarde (Ext)
08th'
Antiphonal Great Organ C – c 4
Principal
08th'
Principal
04 ′
Principal
02 ′
Antiphonal Pedal Organ C – g 1
Bourdon
16 ′
Flood
08th'
Remarks:
(W) = Originally preserved register from Welte Organ Co. (1928/1929)
(K) = Originally preserved register from Kimball Organ Co. (1930)
(M) = Originally preserved register from MPMoeller Organ Co. (1961/1965/1976)
(n) = New register or pipe material from Foley-Baker Inc. (2013)
