Unknown - Facade, 2011. (Photograph by William Catanesye/Database Manager)
Unknown - Keydesk, 2011. (Photograph by William Catanesye/Database Manager)
Note: Not playable. (in this location)
2005-02-26 - 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
2011-10-17 - Updated through online information from William Catanesye. -- Stopped in the open doors of St. John the Baptist Hellenic Orthodox church (Formerly South Congregational). Organ appears to be there but seems to have fallen into disuse. Looking through the facade, pipes are tipped over and it is very dirty. It does not appear to be significantly altered. -Database Manager
2012-12-29 - Updated through online information from William Catanesye. -Database Manager
2023-10-03 - The temple was erected in 1862 for the protestant community. From 1887-1921 it served as a Jewish Synagogue, the Temple Ohabei Shalom. The property was purchased by the Greek community in 1924 and has remained their church since. -Louie Damico
The stoplist is from the International Organ Foundation website Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Builder: E & G G Hook Year: 1864 Opus: Case Builder: Date: Materials: Console Type: No. manuals: 3 Stop controls: Pedals type: Action Key: Electric Stop: Temperament: Pitch (a', Hz): No. of stops: 40 No. of ranks: No. of pipes: Wind supply Power: Pressures (mm): History: 1868: Four stops added by Hook (marked in stop list); Nighthorn replaced a Twelfth and the Mixture V a Montre 8'. 1887: Building sold to a Jewish Synagogue. Early C20: Building sold to St John the Baptist Hellenic Orthodox Church. Comments: Reported relatively intact but unplayable in 1994. Stop list Choir (C-a3, 58) Aeolina 16 Principal 8 Dulciana 8 Gedackt 8 Metal Violin 4 Hohlpfeife 4 Doppelflöte Clarionet 8 Tremulant Great (C-a3, 58) Grand Principal 16 Principal 8 Viola da Gamba 8 Doppel Flote 8 Wood Melodia 8 Open Wood Octave 4 Nighthorn 4 1868 Fifteenth 2 Mixture No. 1 II Mixture No. 2 II Mixture V 1868 Trumpet 8 Tuba Mirabilis 8 1868 Swell (Enclosed; C-a3, 58) Bourdon 16 Wood Open Diapason 8 Salicional 8 Dolce 8 Gedackt 8 Wood Octave 4 Vox Angelica 4 Tapered Flute Harm. 4 Piccolo 2 Wood Mixture III Fagotto 16 From c1 Trumpet 8 Oboe 8 Vox Humana 8 Tremulant Pedal (C-f1, 30) Grand Bourdon 32 Wood Double Open Diapason 16 Wood Double Dulciana 16 Violoncello 8 Tapered Flute 4 Trombone 16 Wood; 1868 Couplers Choir to Great 8 Swell to Great 8 Swell to Choir 8 Choir to Pedal 8 Great to Pedal 8 Swell to Pedal 8 Accessories 2 combination pedals for Great, Swell and Pedal Couplers on/off Swell combination pedal, 3 positions Balanced Swell pedal (original) Pedal check [Received from Leonard Houston 2013-02-11.]
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