It’s a 1924 Wangerin. A company based in Milwaukee that sold most of its instruments in the upper Midwest. But there was one at St. Vibiana’s in LA. Typically a big Romantic sound.
Quite a number of these instruments have been restored and are still in use. You can listen to a 1926 Wangerin being played here: http://www.contrebombarde.com/concerthall/music/6020

But I don’t expect the vandals at Dayton to understand what they may have, or to take the necessary steps to determine the cost of a refurbishment/restoration.
The new plans of course call for a large grand piano right down front, where the musicians can bask in the adulation of the crowd instead of singing for the glory of God. So there was obviously no consideration given to restoration of the organ.

The choir loft will be lowered

but ... colleges and universities have been known to reverse decisions when a lot of people complain to them, be they alumni or not, and they tend to be very public relations focused.

If some senseless decree were to order the total or partial destruction of basilicas or cathedrals, then obviously it would be the educated - whatever their personal beliefs - who would rise up in horror to oppose such a possibility. Now the fact is that basilicas and cathedrals were built so as to celebrate a rite which, until a few months ago, constituted a living tradition. We are referring to the Roman Catholic Mass. Yet, according to the latest information in Rome, there is a plan to obliterate that Mass by the end of the current year. One of the axioms of contemporary publicity, religious as well as secular, is that modern man in general, and intellectuals in particular, have become intolerant of all forms of tradition and are anxious to suppress them and put something else in their place. But, like many other affirmations of our publicity machines, this axiom is false. Today, as in times gone by, educated people are in the vanguard where recognition of the value of tradition in concerned, and are the first to raise the alarm when it is threatened. We are not at this moment considering the religious or spiritual experience of millions of individuals. The rite in question, in its magnificent Latin text, has also inspired a host of priceless achievements in the arts - not only mystical works, but works by poets, philosophers, musicians, architects, painters and sculptors in all countries and epochs. Thus, it belongs to universal culture as well as to churchmen and formal Christians. In the materialistic and technocratic civilisation that is increasingly threatening the life of mind and spirit in its original creative expression - the word - it seems particularly inhuman to deprive man of word-forms in one of their most grandiose manifestations. The signatories of this appeal, which is entirely ecumenical and non-political, have been drawn from every branch of modern culture in Europe and elsewhere. They wish to call to the attention of the Holy See, the appalling responsibility it would incur in the history of the human spirit were it to refuse to allow the Traditional Mass to survive, even though this survival took place side by side with other liturgical reforms.

Yet, according to the latest information in Rome, there is a plan to obliterate that Mass by the end of the current year. One of the axioms of contemporary publicity, religious as well as secular, is that modern man in general, and intellectuals in particular, have become intolerant of all forms of tradition and are anxious to suppress them and put something else in their place.

it seems particularly inhuman to deprive man of word-forms in one of their most grandiose manifestations. The signatories of this appeal, which is entirely ecumenical and non-political

No, but I have no way of changing it and neither does anyone else here.

read these words everyone. It was 'their' plan to obliterate that Mass.