Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2005-02-28 - 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
2020-07-22 - The history of the church at its website records the destruction of the church by fire on February 25, 1959: But in the early morning hours of February 25, 1959, fire totally destroyed the Chestnut Street church. The only thing to survived [<i>sic</i>] the fire was the church tower bell, which now sits outside our church. But the members and leaders were determined to rebuild. And in October 1960, a new church was constructed on the same site. The destruction of the organ in the church was reported in the April 1959 issue of <i>The Tracker</i>: Church fires have taken a bad toll of tracker organs in Massachusetts recently. Gone are the 1877 Hook & Hastings in Gardner's Methodist Church, and the 1886 Hook & Hastings in St. Matthew & Redeemer Episcopal Church of South Boston. Sources: “Notes, Quotes and Comments,” <i>The Tracker</i> 3, no. 3 (April 1959): 8. “Our History,” Gardner Chestnut Street United Methodist Church, accessed July 22, 2020, https://gardnerumc.org/about-us/our-history/. -Charles Eberline
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