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Hook & Hastings Opus 1572 (1893)

First Methodist [Episcopal] Church: Sanctuary
214 W. Main Street
Carbondale, PA

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


Images


ca. 1900 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)

Consoles

Main


Notes

2005-03-01 - Identified from company publications as edited and expanded in *The Hook Opus List 1829-1935*, ed. William T. Van Pelt (Organ Historical Society, 1991). The Hook & Hastings was replaced by M.P. Moller, Opus 394, ca. 1903. -Database Manager

2023-10-01 - The Hook and Hastings organ was destroyed in a fire on Nov. 17, 1901, which gutted the church building. The church was rebuilt, using the existing stone walls and rededicated in March 1903. Pipes from the Hook and Hastings organ, which actually survived the fire are in the present pipe chamber of the present Moller Organ Opus 6280 which was dedicated on October 21, 1934. - Submitted by Mark Myers, organist and Church historian of the First United Methodist Church of Carbondale, Pennsylvania. -Mark Myers

2023-10-01 - The Hook & Hastings organ was destroyed in a fire which occured on November 17, 1901, gutting the church. The rebuilt church was dedicated March 1903. -Mark Myers


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