Gardiner Warner Spring Auditorium at Chaffey

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Gardiner Whittier Spring Auditorium
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Last Updated August 24, 2005

The great steps of
Gardiner Whittier Spring Auditorium

Architects

Allison & Allison (They also did 8 buildings at UCLA and many major churches, schools & the Chaffey Memorial Library.)

Construction

Class "A" reinforced concrete, per the 1937 California Earthquake and Windstress law, adopted after Long Beach earthquake of 1933. The work performed from 1937 to 1939. Built by the Works Projects Administration and the Public Works Administration, with $195,000 in local bonds. It replaced the 1912 Auditorium and Library building that was condemned after the 1933 earthquake.

Bruce Jones, a teacher on the
Chaffey Faculty, is also a
member of the American Guild
of Organists.

He is playing the mighty Austin
organ in the Gardiner W.
Spring Auditorium.

Style

Spanish Colonial

Organ

The 1919 Austin Theatre-Concert organ from the old auditorium was placed in the new structure. It contains 54 Ranks (3,894 pipes) with the pipes housed in two rooms over the stage, with the music directed through two large ceiling ports overhead in the auditorium. The console was replaced in the restoration work performed during 1984 through 1991 by the Chaffey High School Alumni Association and its "Gardiner W. Spring Restoration Committee" and "The Spring Auditorium Progress Committee." All the pipes were cleaned, polished, and all leather and tuning devices replaced.

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