IOWA CITY : USA - IA

*Location:

   St.Mary of the Visitation Church (RC)
   (aka St.Mary of the Assumption)
   East Jefferson and North Linn Streets
   Iowa City, Iowa, USA
   LL: N 41.66271, W 91.53189

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*Player:

   Francis R. Lalor
   122 North 7th Avenue
   Iowa City, IA  52245-3302
   H: (319)338-1804

*Contact:

   St.Mary's Parish Office
   302 East Jefferson Street
   Iowa City, IA  52245-2137
   T: (319)337-4314   F: (319)337-8551

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Made by Henry Stuckstede & Co.,
   St.Louis, Mo. (15 bells); includes one
   by Francis Mayer, St.Louis, Mo., 1854;
   and one by Jones & Co., Troy, NY, 1867;
   electrified 1941.

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 17 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The whole instrument was installed in 1885
     by the maker cited in Remarks above
   Year of latest technical information source is 2000

*Links:

The church has a Website which includes a dim photo of the church in the background of the menus on most pages.  The chime is mentioned on the History page (under Eucharistic Community).  There used to be a separate choir Website, which included a short page about the chime, but it seems to have disappeared.

Building description from Emporis Buildings (no photos as of Aug.'07)
(Also see our Emporis Advice.)

Where the main part of this work lies in the sequence of output of the first Stuckstede bellfoundry.

Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).

Index to all tower bell instruments in IA.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 27-Aug-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/08/27
   and on technical data last updated on 2001/08/03

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