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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:11:00

A publishing magnate gave his hometown one of the largest pipe organs on earth - 1912 Portland got an instrument that would cost five million dollars to replace today. Merrill Auditorium, at 20 Myrtle Street inside Portland City Hall in Maine, is the 1,908-seat civic hall built around the mighty Kotzschmar Memorial Organ. The hall rose from a fire: when Portland's previous City Hall burned in 1908, the rebuilt 1912 building included a grand auditorium, and Cyrus H.K. Curtis - the Portland-born ...