2002-09-09 - Church exterior (Photograph by Steven E. Lawson/Database Manager)
Unknown - Church interior (Postcard in collection of Steven E. Lawson/Database Manager)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2005-04-07 - Identified through information in Volume VIII p. 46 of the Pilcher factory ledger and the list of Pilcher organs typed by William E. Pilcher of Louisville. For more information see the document referenced below. -Database Manager
2005-04-07 - Original price: $20,000. With echo. Photo Archives 4111. -Database Manager
2011-08-31 - Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager
2019-09-16 - One of the early twentieth-century 'skyscraper churches,' the church was housed in the lower floors of the 15-story Roger Williams Hotel, named after the Rhode Island theologian and abolitionist who started the first Baptist Church in America; the organ was replaced by an electronic in the 1990's; the hotel is now the luxury Roger Hotel New York. -Database Manager
Source: Stoplist copied from <i>The American Organist</i> November 1932 Date not recorded
New York, New York
Madison Avenue Baptist Church
Pilcher Op. 1527 1931 3/30
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As per the policy of THE AMERICAN ORGANIST at
the time, stop names of extensions and borrows
are shown with the same name as the parent rank.
GREAT (enclosed) SWELL
8' 1st Diapason 73 16' Bourdon 61
8' 2nd Diapason 73 8' Diapason Phonon 73
8' Philomela 73 8' Bourdon 12
8' Gamba 73 8' Viole d'Orchestre 73
4' Octave 73 8' Viole Celeste 73
4' Philomela 12 8' Aeoline 73
2' Fifteenth -- 4' Bourdon 12
IV Mixture 244 2 2/3' Bourdon 7
8' Tuba 73 2' Bourdon 5
Tremulant 8' Cornopean 73
Chimes EC 8' Oboe 73
8' French Horn 73
ECHO Tremulant
Chimes EC
8' Flauto Dolce 61
8' Flute Celeste 61 CHOIR
8' Vox Angelica 61 16' Dulciana 61
4' Flauto Dolce 12 8' English Diapason 73
8' Vox Humana 61 8' Concert Flute 73
Tremulant 8' Viola 73
Chimes 21 8' Dulciana 12
4' Concert Flute 12
PEDAL 4' Dulciana 12
2 2/3' Dulciana 7
32' Resultant -- 8' Clarinet 73
16' Diapason 32 Tremulant
16' Subbass 32 8' Harp 61
16' Bourdon 32 Celesta
16' Gamba GT 12
16' Bourdon SW
16' Dulciana CH
8' Diapason 12
8' Bourdon 12
8' Flute Dolce SW
8' Dulciana CH
16' Tuba GT
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