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Hook & Hastings Opus 1569 (1893)

SS. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church
717 State Street
Alton, IL

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


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Notes

2005-02-16 - 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

2016-02-13 - Updated through online information from Ron Yeater. <br>Organ and church destroyed by fire caused by lightning strike c. 1948. Rebuilt church had a Wicks 2m. Church presently has an electronic using the Wicks pipes for some voices. -Database Manager

2018-03-13 - Updated by Fr. Jason P. Stone, naming this as the source of information: Parish annals, 1949.<br> Organ was destroyed in a fire on July 21, 1949. The fire destroyed the main steeple, but the rest of the church was saved. I have been unable to verify that a Wicks was installed after the fire. (Source: parish annals and Alton Telegraph articles.) -Database Manager


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