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
2016-11-24 - Updated through online information from Steve Bartley. <br>More research will be needed to verify this assumption, but this organ was most likely built for the St Thomas Episcopal Church, Homestead neighborhood. Only two other St. Thomas Church's were extant in Baltimore, a catholic church in the Hampden neighborhood, and a Lutheran church in SW part of the city. The Hook & Hastings opus list, found in the Wm. Van Pelt compilation, shows opus 786 was purchased by George H. Sargeant. Mr. Sargeant was a well-to-do real estate agent in Baltimore. He was also an active member of the high society parish, "Grace Church". A year before this organ was installed, a mission chapel of St. Thomas was opened in the Lauraville neighborhood. Grace church, was also active in the financial support of this chapel. It is possible that Sargeant made the purchase of the Hook organ either for St. Thomas church or for the newly opened chapel, either as a benefactor or simply the agent. As the Chapel did not last much past the second decade of the 20th century, and St Thomas continued to slowly grow, purchasing a new Möller in 1913, it is conceivable the Hook organ did go to St Thomas and the old St. Thomas organ went to the chapel. -Database Manager
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