Some homes have one inspirational idea. Wurlitzer Manor has three.

     The first is a musical home designed to house a theater organ to provide acoustic
precision to one of the finest theatre organs built for the silent movie era — the Wurltizer Brooklyn Fox Special. The Wurlitzer Theatre Organ is one of 5 custom built by the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company for the Fox movie theaters located in cities in the United States in the 1920’s. This theatre organ’s first home was the Brooklyn Fox Theatre in Brooklyn, New York.
     The theatre organ’s playing history was short lived because theatre organs, designed to play music for movies in the silent movie era, were no longer in style when talking pictures became the rage. Theatre organs lost their usefulness to movie theatre and it languished at the Brooklyn Fox Theatre until it was sold and began its new life to play again to children and adults at the Cardinal Music Palace Pizza Company in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
     Its playing life became renewed again in the mid 1980’s when the theatre organ was purchased from the Cardinal Music Palace and the theatre organ console—refurbished and electronically—installed to continue the theatre organ musical experience at Wurlitzer Manor.
     It has been a lucky theatre organ because it survives and continues to play music to the enjoyment to all who have listened from the ensemble of pipes playing classical music composed by Bach to contemporary music of Billy Joel, George Gershwin, or Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber.
     Standing or sitting in the Wurlitzer Room will make you feel as if you are in a musical instrument. The Wurltizer theatre organ is a Four Manual theater organ console with Three chambers holding over 3000 pipes.
     This is one of the finest installations of its kind in the United States. The design and installation of this musical wonder was accomplished by Ed and Patti Zollman of the Zollman Pipe Organ Company. Ed and Patti continue to visit to perform repairs, maintenance, and tuning.
     The Wurlitzer Room is large to provide the acoustic sound quality for an instrument that has a broad musical range. The room offers opportunities for live music, be it Blues (our personal favorite), piano, vocal, or other musical ensembles.
     The third inspiration is the software system that records the music just as the organists who played it on the theatre organ console.
     The 13-acre property has three homes and a manor suite. The Manor Suite, Soundview and Garden vacation homes overlook the Tacoma Narrows of Puget Sound. This waterway is not only majestic but allows us to appreciate the importance of the Puget Sound water way to pleasure boats and for commercial water traffic. Each day, tugboats tow barrages provide some of the resources for the economy of Washington State. You will view and hear trains hauling cargo and passengers moving along the tracks across the Tacoma Narrows. And then there is the Tacoma Narrows Bridge that maybe viewed with enjoyment from the patio decks.
     The home, completed in 1987, is already a historic musical residence. In the 18 years since its completion, Wurlitzer Manor has hosted numerous Puget Sound Theatre Organ concerts hosting theater organists played by talented theatre organists such as Tony Fenelon, Jonas Nordwall, Dave Wickerham, and Chris Powell.
     Barbara and Raymond have extended the music repertoire of Wurlitzer Manor to include blues musicians featuring Dr. John, Shemekia Copeland, Lizzie West, Stickshift Annie, Curtis Selgado, Lady A and the Blues Funk Band, Honey Boy Edwards, Louisiana Red, Mitch Woods, and Jon Cleary.

“Experience The Magic On The Sound”