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Website of HORC, the 501 (c)3 nonprofit restoring and maintaining the two landmark pipe organs in Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, NJ. One of the pipe organs is the world's largest musical instrument, The Midmer-Losh pipe organ, currently undergoing a massive restoration project.
The Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ, known also as the Midmer-Losh and the Poseidon, is the pipe organ in the Main Auditorium of the Boardwalk Hall (formerly known as the Atlantic City Convention Hall) in Atlantic City, New Jersey, built by the Midmer-Losh Organ Company.
Designed by Atlantic County State Senator E.L Richards, who was also a noted organ architect, Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall organ took three years to build (1929–1932) by the Midmer-Losh Organ Company at a cost of approximately $350,000.
Free 1/2 hour recital and 1/2 hour tour. Available May - October. Built between 1929 and 1932 by the Midmer-Losh Organ Company of Merrick, Long Island, N.Y., the Boardwalk Hall Pipe Organ was designed by Atlantic County State Senator and noted organ architect Emerson L. Richards.
The organ in the Main Auditorium of Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall (formerly Convention Hall) was built by the Midmer-Losh Co., of Merrick, Long Island, New York. Work on the instrument, Opus 5550, started in May of 1929 and was completed in December, 1932.
The organ in the Adrian Phillips Theater was designed and installed in by the noted firm of W.W. Kimball in Chicago. A self-contained symphony orchestra, it is precisely suited to the spectacular acoustics of the, 3000 seat auditorium and is equally at home as a concert or theatrical instrument.
The Historic Organ Restoration Committee (HORC) is a 501c3 chartered by the state of New Jersey for the restoration and preservation of the two pipe organs of Historic Boardwalk Hall.
