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Fenix has a new office!
Fenix has moved to a new location at 3101 20th St. in San Francisco, California. It's a beautiful building that we are happy to call our new home.
© via Wikipedia
The building was built in 1928 and for 83 years it was home to the Schoenstein and Co. Pipe Organ Factory. According to this site, the company was founded in 1877 by Felix Schoenstein. His son Louis managed it for sixty-four years until his retirement in 1962. Louis' younger brother continued to manage the family business until 1997 when he sold it, one century after its founding.
The company has built organs throughout the United States and Canada, as well as repairing and renovating numerous organs, particularly after the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 (via Wikipedia).
Clients include the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Eastman School of Music, the Kennedy Center, and the Washington National Cathedral. Among the notable Schoenstein organs is the organ of the conference center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah completed in 2003.
The factory and archive is one of the few factories built for organ-building and is on the National Register of Historic Places, NRHP #78000759.
Photos ©Jillian Pfund
We're thrilled to be sharing the building with our friend Saul Griffith and his colleagues at OtherLab and OnyaCycles, makers of very cool electric bicycles. Want proof?
Check out this video:
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1 Reader Comments
wow, good work gays am so grateful for the work well done to even think about the common people in the village to be able to use these products at their convenient time home,also creating employment to the highly spirited local people like the entrepreneur in Uganda who cant afford a big capital to start up his/her own business, your actually grooming job creators not job seekers. at least local people have benefited a lot in this project & their able to earn a living threw these products and also including transportation easy still for a local person those bicycles are the winner. good job, good job.
April 30, 2012 at 05:01 AM