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Unknown Builder (1864)

St. James Lutheran Church
5th & Chestnut Streets
Reading, PA

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


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Notes

2004-10-30 - Possibly by Samuel Bohler who is supposed to have built an organ for this church. Taken down in 1898 after a fire, and many parts renewed. Church remodeled in 1924, and a Skinner organ installed. -Database Manager

2021-11-22 - Confirmed by a brief mention in the *Reading Times*, 22 OCt 1894: "the organ...which was so badly damaged during the fire, has been entirely reconstructed and was used for the first time yesterday...will be entirely finished by the end of the week." Neither builder nor original builder are identified. -Paul R. Marchesano

2022-01-29 - The Ssamuel Bohler organ in this church was a rebuild of this organ (which may or may not have been built by Bohler) in 1890, which apparently burned in a fire in 1898. -Paul R. Marchesano


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