Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2005-02-17 - 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
2013-09-03 - Updated through online information from steve bartley. -- I regularly service the organ in this church Now known as Grace & St. Peters Episcopal, same location Park & Monument streets.<br>From a description in the 1856 Convention of the Maryland Episcopal diocese the organ was in a tall Gothic walnut case in the rear balcony. In 1888 the balcony was removed and Roosevelt was hired to replace the Hook organ, but use as many of the pipes as possible. They built their opus 381. -Database Manager
2022-05-31 - The first known organ to be housed in Grace Church was built in 1856 by the Anglo-American firm E & E. G. Hook of Boston. This instrument was large for its time with three manuals (keyboards), pedals, and 35 ranks of pipes. This organ was replaced in 1886 by the Roosevelt firm, which was based in New York City but had a branch office in Baltimore. Both of these instruments were built in the back of the church. -- church website -Paul R. Marchesano
2024-03-19 - Updated through online information from William T. Van Pelt: The Hook replaced a small Erben organ of 1852. -Jim Stettner
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