Windy City Writers

The Sanfilippo 'Victorian Palace' is known worldwide for its magnificent collections of beautifully restored antique music machines, chandeliers, art glass, the world's larges theatre pipe organ, the most spectacular European salon carousel in existence, street and tower clocks, steam engines and other functional mechanical antiques, displayed within a breathtaking French Second Empire setting. The primary motive behind this collection is the preservation and sharing of the experience of these marvelous inventions of the Western World. The Victorian Palace contains the largest collection of restored automatic musical instruments in the world, including over 200 music boxes and phonographs, approximately 65 coin-operated pianos, violin machines and photoplayers, 60 large American and European orchestrions, 25 dance organs, fairground and band organs and calliopes, and an 8,000-pipe theatre organ.