Unknown - Sanctuary interior and façade pipes (Photograph by Willie Davis via the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project/Database Manager)
Unknown - Church exterior (Photograph from www.wirednewyork.com via the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project/Database Manager)
2004-12-21 - Information identifying this instrument from the Austin Organs, Inc. web site, accessed December 20, 2004: http://www.austinorgans.com/organ-research.htm. -Database Manager
2014-06-01 - Retained pipework from their 1889 Roosevelt and the 1911 Austin rebuild. -Database Manager
2016-02-06 - In 1911, the West Presbyterian Church sold its property on West 42nd Street and merged with Park Presbyterian Church on West 86th street, after which the combined congregations were known as West-Park Presbyterian Church. -Database Manager
2019-12-28 - From the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project: This organ, designed by [the church's organist] Allan Van Zoeren and built by Austin Organs in 1954, was subsequently altered several times by Van Zoeren and others. By the 1990s, the organ had been damaged by fallen plaster and installation of a sound system. -Database Manager
Stoplist copied from <i>The Diapason</i> March 1959 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
New York, New York
West-Park Presbyterian Church
Austin OP. 2208 1954 3/46
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GREAT POSITIV (enclosed)
16' Quintation [sic] 61 8' Gedackt 61
8' Prestant 61 8' Dolce 61
8' Bourdon 61 8' Unda Maris 49
8' Dolce PO 4' Prinzipal 61
4' Octave 61 4' Koppelflöte 61
4' Nachthorn 61 2' Doublette 61
4' Quintation 24 2' Koppelflöte 12
2' Spitzflöte 61 1 1/3' Spitzquint 61
III-VI Mixture 294 1' Sifflöte 61
II Sesquialtera 122
SWELL II Cymbel 122
8' Geigen 73 8' Dulzian 61
8' Rohrflöte 73 Cymbelstern 2
8' Flauto Dolce 73
8' Spitzviol 73 PEDAL
8' Celeste 61 16' Subbas [sic] 32
4' Rohrpfeife 73 16' Quintation GT
2' Gemshorn 61 16' Lieblich Gedeckt 12
2' Rohrpfeife 12 8' Prinzipal 32
II-IV Scharf 184 8' Gedackt 32
16' Rankett 73 8' Flauto Dolce SW
8' Fagot 73 4' Choralbass 12
4' Regal 73 4' Quintation GT
Tremulant 2' Nachthorn 32
II Rauschquint 64
16' Fagot 12 SW
2' Rohrschalmey 32
[Received online from Jeff Scofield June 1, 2014]
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