Hilborne Roosevelt

Hilborne Roosevelt

Hilborne Lewis Roosevelt was a pioneering organ builder and a member of the Roosevelt family.He was born in Panama city, Florida to Silas Weir Roosevelt, a son of Cornelius Roosevelt. He was thus a cousin of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.He did not take to either of the traditional Roosevelt...

 and his younger brother Frank Roosevelt organized the Roosevelt Pipe Organ Builders in the 1880s. The brothers built some of the largest organs in the United States during their career, and many today are prized for their quality and tone. The Roosevelts were among the first to introduce elecricity into organbuilding.

Roosevelt organ installations include the following:

• Episcopal Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City
  Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City
  The Cathedral of the Incarnation is an Episcopal church in Garden City, New York, and the cathedral church of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island. The Cathedral was established in 1876 as a memorial to and mausoleum for Garden City founder, Alexander Turney Stewart...
  
  , New York
• Trinity Church
• Church of the Holy Communion, New York
• Christ Church, Glendale, Ohio
• Grace Protestant Episcopal Church of New York
• First Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, NY
  First Presbyterian Church (Buffalo, New York)
  The First Presbyterian Church in Buffalo, New York was the first organized religious body formed in what was then the western frontier of New York State. The town of Buffalo was sparsely populated when the church was organized on February 2, 1812; however having survived the War of 1812, the town...
  
  
• First Presbyterian Church, New York
• Grace & St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Maryland
• First Baptist Church in America, Providence, Rhode Island (Opus 150)
• First Methodist Church, Boulder, Colorado (Opus 382)
• St, James Roman Catholic Church, Chicago, Illinois (1891)
• St. Peter's Episcopal Church, New York (Opus 515 - 1892)