The Great Auditorium
by Colleen Kammerer
Title
The Great Auditorium
Artist
Colleen Kammerer
Medium
Photograph - Fine Art Photography
Description
The Great Auditorium of Ocean Grove was built in 1894. It is considered to be the largest enclosed auditorium in New jersey. The Great Auditorium originally seated 10,000 people. However, with the addition of the pipe organ the Auditorium now seats 6,500 people. The all wood structure is the size of a football field and is used for Sunday services and concerts. Throughout the Auditorium's history it has attracted a wide array of performers including Enrico Caruso, Marian Anderson,John Phillip Sousa. Peter Paul & Mary and Johnny Mathias. Along with these, seven presidents of the United States, including Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt and Richard Nixon have spoken at the Great Auditorium as well as 27 of the past 28 New Jersey governors elected since its completion. The Auditorium Organ was dedicated in 1903. The organ was built by Robert Hope Jones who was funded on his arrival by Samuel Clemens. (Mark Twain) The organ has 10 divisions totaling 176 ranks and over 10,000 pipes.
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* In God We Trust
* Historical Buildings of the World
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June 21st, 2017
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