ca. 1980's - Organ facade, before restoration: (Photograph from an archival source: Andover Organ Co. archive photo. , submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2005-02-15 - Identified from company publications as edited and expanded in <i>The Hook Opus List 1829-1935</i>, ed. William T. Van Pelt (Organ Historical Society, 1991). -Database Manager
2020-12-27 - **Database Manager on June 10, 2007:** Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Building originally built in 1866 as a performing arts/community center. Organ believed to be original, but only one documented E. & G.G. Hook appears on the Hook opus list - First Congregational, a I-manual from 1857. However, two Hook organs from 1866 exist but are for undesignated buyers/locations: opuses 392 and 393. Perhaps it is one of these. The facade is three-sectional with three Romanesque arches containing 23 stenciled facade pipes arranged: 7-9-7. Building gradually fell into disuse and the organ into disrepair. Suffered from some vandalism. 1978, Cheney Hall designated a National Historic Landmark Building by the U.S. Dept. of the Interior. Organ believed to have been restored by Andover ca. 1991. -Jim Stettner
2020-12-27 - **Database Manager on September 15, 2014:** Updated through online information from John Igoe. -- April 2002 article in The Diapason describes the 1990 Andover restoration -Jim Stettner
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