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Thomas Hall (1818)

First Unitarian Church [originally First Independent Church]: Sanctuary; rear gallery
10 W Franklin Street
Baltimore, MD

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images


2019-11-01 - Church exterior. Hand-colored copies of original line drawings taken from "A Picture of Baltimore" (1833), in Special Collections of Johns Hopkins U. (Photograph from an archival source: Church Facebook page, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

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Gallery

Notes

2004-10-30 - Case by Maximilien Godefroy. 1400 pipes. Replaced 1847. -Database Manager

2021-08-13 - This was a GGG-compass organ of 58-notes excluding the bass GGG# (GGG, AAA - f). -Jim Stettner

2023-08-25 - "A third fine early organ containing 1400 pipes was installed in the First Unitarian Church in 1818 and was built by Thomas Hall of Philadelphia. The case, sketched from a drawing in the church record, was designed by Maximilien Godefroy, architect of the church. It was replaced in 1893." *The Tracker*, 2:3 (1958) p2 -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

Source: Stoplist from original Thomas Hall Proposal in Church archive 1818

Baltimore, Maryland
First Independent Church (later First Unitarian Church of Baltimore)

Thomas Hall, Philadelphia, 1818

 
       GREAT (GGG, AAA - f; 58-notes)
16     Double Open Diapason
8      Open Diapason
8      Stopt Diapason
4      Principal
2 2/3  Twelfth
2      Fifteenth
1 3/5  Tierce
IV     Sesquialtera                                                 
8      Trumpet
V      Cornet


       CHOIR (GGG, AAA - f; 58-notes)
8      Stopt Diapason
8      Dulceano
4      Principal
4      Flute
2      Fifteenth


       SWELL (Expressive - mid C ?)
8      Open Diapason
8      Stopt Diapason
8      Viola di Gamba
4      Principal
2      Fifteenth
IV     Cornet
8      Hautboy
IV     Sesquialtera                                                 


NOTES
Three manuals, 22-stops, and Pedal Bass (no pipes-later altered-from Great
Double). 1400 pipes (number given in proposal-but actually somewhat more).
In rear gallery-case in Lyre form by Maximilien Godefroy, architect of church.

Replaced (there seems to have been a fire) in a newly rebuilt gallery in 1847
by a three-manual 37-stop Appleton and Warren. 

This was replaced in newly reconstructed interior of church by an 1893 Henry
Niemann two manual 25-rank organ (with Barker Lever) given by Baltimore
philanthropist Enoch Pratt. It is still in regular use (with three additions
using Niemann pipes) and is greatly appreciated by the congregation. 

[Received from James Houston 2016-06-12.]

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