This Vocalian was located in a music room of the large 5 story row house of Lawrence Turnbull, One of Turnbull's son's Edwin, was real estate lawyer and musician, Baltimore MD. The house was located at 1530 Park Ave. Edwin attended a music academy in Vienna, and founded an amateur orchestra at Hopkins University, which he conducted. He later took over the house. A photo of Edwin Turnbull & blind musician Edwin Grasse are shown at the keydesk of the Vocalion, in the Turnbull's music room. (Musical Courier 4/7/1927 pg 50)

Edwin died in 1927 and his wife sold the house to an editor & printer of Hollywood film magazines and publications (James Shellman) though his business was in Baltimore and he never visited Hollywood, it is said that he was well known in the gossip of that town.
In the Baltimore Sun Paper 12/1/1942 pg 26 shows a small boy and his grandmother (Mrs Shellman) seated at the keydesk of the Vocalion.

The house was sold in 1952 after the death of James Shellman. In the late 1960s the entire block of this 5 story row house complex burned, though the facade and end walls remained intact. In the early 1970s a developer saved the facaed and incorporated into a 5 story apartment complex. The fate of the organ is unknown.
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