St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church (1889-91): Nave; rear gallery
515 19th Street
Watervliet, NY
OHS convention: 2006
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
2017-07-05 - Nave interior with organ at the rear (Photograph by Foresight Architects, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
1906 - Church exterior; facade (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
Unknown - View of organ in balcony from above left (Photograph from an archival source: Sale notice Wallace & Co LLC, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
Unknown - Façade (Photograph ca. 1965, courtesy of Bob Mathews/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
- Console position: Keydesk Attached
- 3 manuals
- 31 stops
- 32 registers
- 4 divisions
- Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
- Stop action Type: Mechanical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
- Manual compass: 56 notes
- Pedal compass: 27 notes
- Pedal Type: Flat Straight
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
- Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
- Has combination trundles
- Has coupler trundles
Notes
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 2001 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Compass 56/27. [Keraulophon 98:6 shows a contract for a new organ for this church (possibly a rebuild of the Jardine, a chapel organ, or an organ that was never built?) to William J. Stuart & Bros for a $10,000 organ in 1901.] -Database Manager
2012-04-29 - Updated through online information from Bob Matthews. -- St. Patrick's R.C. church closed 9/2011. Organ removed 4/2012 by Wallace Pipe Organ Co., Gorham ME. Destined to be reinstalled at St. Edwards the Confessor R.C. Church, Clifton Park, NY. -Database Manager
2012-04-30 - Updated through online information from John Igoe. -- According to a web page on timesunion.com, Wallace Pipe Organ Co. of Gorham, Maine, under the direction of John Schreiner of Schreiner Pipe Organ Ltd. of Schenectady, removed the organ on April 25, 2012. The organ is to be installed at St. Edward the Confessor Parish in Clifton Park, NY -Database Manager
2022-11-02 - This organ was never installed in Clifton Park, New York, and is now in storage and being offered by A. David Moore of Pomfret, Vermont. -Edwin H Myers Jr
2025-04-09 - Despite efforts to save the church, it fell to the wreckers ball in April and May, 2013. -Jim Stettner
Stoplist
Typed Specification Source: <i>OHS Organ Atlas of the Capital District Region 2006</i> Date not recorded
Watervliet, New York
St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church
Geo. Jardine & Son 1890 3 manuals, 31 stops, 34 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN SWELL ORGAN, enclosed
16' Double Diapason 56 16' Bourdon Treble (TF) 39
8' Open Diapason 56 16' Bourdon Bass 17
8' Melodia 56 8' Open Diapason 56
8' Keraulophon 56 8' Dulciana 56
4' Principal 56 8' Stop'd Diapason 56
4' Flute Harmonic 56 8' Doppel Flöte 56
3' Twelfth 56 4' Principal 56
2' Fifteenth 56 2' Flageolet 56
Sesquialtera 3 Rks. 168 Cornet 2 Rks. 112
8' Trumpet 56 8' Oboe 56
8' Vox Humana 56
Tremulant
CHOIR ORGAN
8' Open Diapason 56 PEDAL ORGAN
8' Salicional 56 16' Open Diapason 27
8' Stop'd Diapason 56 16' Bourdon 27
8' Dulce 56 8' Violoncello 27
4' Flute 56 16' Trombone 27
2' Piccolo 56
8' Clarinet 56
Choir Tremolo
COUPLERS PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Choir to Pedal Great Forte
Swell to Pedal Great Piano
Great to Pedal Swell Forte
Swell to Choir Swell Piano
Swell to Great Balanced Choir Pedal
Choir to Great Balanced Swell Pedal
Great to Pedal Reversible
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2018-05-03]
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