Better Pipe Organ Database

E. & G. G. Hook Opus 8 (1832)

South Congregational Church [1804]: original bldg
8 1/2 Chestnut Street
Salem, MA

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

Images

before 1908 - Organ case [cropped] (Photograph from an archival source: Digital Commonwealth, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

before 1908 - Organ case on platform behind pulpit (Photograph from an archival source: Digital Commonwealth, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
2 manuals
23 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Trigger/Hitch-Down Expression

Notes

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

2025-04-09 - From church history web page: "The historic church building stood here for nearly a century, until it was destroyed by a fire in 1903. It was a significant loss to the neighborhood, and was replaced by a stone, Gothic-style church that bore no resemblance to the old church, and it stood out as an anomaly among the otherwise Federal-style buildings on Chestnut Street. The new building was only used by the South Church for 20 years, until a 1924 merger with the Tabernacle Congregational Church. The building was subsequently used by a different church, but it was ultimately demolished in 1950, and the site was converted into a park." -Paul R. Marchesano