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Austin Organ Co. Opus 53 (1901)

Central Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary
57th & Broadway
New York City: Manhattan, NY

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


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Notes

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

2007-07-09 - Updated through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: <br><i>Rebuilt and enlarged by Aeolian-Skinner in 1941 as Opus 1027.</i> -Database Manager

2010-12-02 - Updated through online information from Connor Annable. -Database Manager

2013-04-06 - Updated through online information from Connor Annable. -- Moved to South Presbyterian, Dobbs Ferry, NY -Database Manager

2015-11-21 - Originally in church located at 220 West 57th Street. Moved in 1915 to new church location on Madison Avenue at East 57th Street; replaced in 1922 by 4/57 Hook & Hastings and relocated as 3/33 Austin Op. 570 to South Presbyterian Church, Dobbs Ferry, New York, and installed in the gallery behind a gallery-wide facade; new Austin console in 1959 and rebuilt with vast tonal changes by Gress-Miles as a 3/49, also in 1959; 7-rank chancel organ (with plexiglass shutters) by Richard Minnich added in 1964; Festival Trumpet added in 1969 by Minnich & Steinkampf; renovated 2004-2005 by Timothy Fink & Company. -Database Manager


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