The documented Opus 47 chapter at St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Martin Ott Opus 47 was a suspended-action organ built in 1987 for St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Geneva, Illinois. Its red-oak case was stained to match the church furniture and placed against the sanctuary's left wall. The attached keydesk uses suspended mechanical action.
The date line for Opus 47 reads 1987. Within the documented Geneva chapter, it is useful evidence, but it should not stand for every missing milestone in the build. The date belongs to the named project at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Geneva, Illinois, while later events keep their own dates. Ownership and playing condition today are not implied.
What survives about the room at St. Mark's Episcopal Church: Opus 47
The documented place is St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Geneva, Illinois. Within the documented Geneva chapter, the name tells us that the commission belonged to a worship community, not how the sanctuary was built or how long a chord remained in the room. At St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Geneva, Illinois, the surviving account does not identify ceiling height, reflective surfaces, chamber depth, or later alterations. For the St. Mark's Episcopal Church project in Geneva, Illinois, those omissions prevent a confident description of the venue's acoustics.
Numbers before tonal claims: Opus 47
For Opus 47, the numerical outline is 19 stops against 22 ranks. Within the documented Geneva chapter, stops are the organist's tonal selections; ranks are pipe rows. For Opus 47, ranks outnumber stops by 3. For the St. Mark's Episcopal Church project in Geneva, Illinois, the difference hints at compound resources without naming them, so no specific mixture or mutation should be inferred. In the St. Mark's Episcopal Church account from Geneva, Illinois, because the surviving evidence here does not include a complete stop list, no reed, flute, string, mixture, manual, or pedal resource is added by assumption.
This brief numerical profile belongs to the Geneva, Illinois chapter of Opus 47. At St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Geneva, Illinois, it should not be blended with an undated stop list or with the specification of another instrument by the same builder. A later source could reveal additions, removals, or shared resources, but only if it names the instrument at St. Mark's Episcopal Church and date clearly. In the St. Mark's Episcopal Church account from Geneva, Illinois, the historical count therefore remains a reference point, not a current inventory.
The mechanism described for St. Mark's Episcopal Church: Opus 47
For Opus 47 at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, the overview is more specific than a simple tracker label: it names suspended mechanical action. In a suspended arrangement, the key linkage works through hanging trackers, although the archived page does not provide the geometry or console section needed to describe this installation precisely. The term should not be turned into a claim about present key weight or maintenance.
How to read the surviving design evidence: Opus 47
The design becomes clearer through the details on the page: it has a red-oak case stained to match furniture and it was placed along the left wall. At St. Mark's Episcopal Church, tonal resources can serve worship as well as occasional performance. At St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Geneva, Illinois, the available facts establish the named design features, not the registrations chosen by players or the musical habits of the parish. For the St. Mark's Episcopal Church project in Geneva, Illinois, a dated programme and full disposition would make that history more precise. The listed 19-stop, 22-rank scale remains the numerical boundary for this reading.
What the source says after 1987: Opus 47
The page situates the installation within the church's Gothic Revival riverstone architecture. Stops prepared in the original design were completed in 2006, making the project a documented two-stage build rather than an unexplained later enlargement. No recital, consultant, or separate tonal revision beyond those prepared stops is named on the surviving page. The original opening date is not stated.
A source trail for the St. Mark's Episcopal Church instrument: Opus 47
The archived St. Mark's Episcopal Church account points to 3 files matching Opus 47. The first path is images/047/047_m.jpg. For the St. Mark's Episcopal Church project in Geneva, Illinois, a matching number is useful provenance, but subject, photographer, date, and rights must still be checked against the image itself. In the St. Mark's Episcopal Church account from Geneva, Illinois, the extracted captions do not settle either authorship or permission.
The source follows Opus 47 through the events described above and no further. A recent condition statement from St. Mark's Episcopal Church would answer more than a page of general organ history. For the St. Mark's Episcopal Church project in Geneva, Illinois, so would a complete stop list tied to a date and a clearly credited photograph.