Second Congregational Church / United Congregational Church: William and Sarah E. Skinner Memorial Chapel
300 Appleton Street
Holyoke, MA
OHS convention: 2015
Images
2023-04-12 - Chapel interior to rear (Photograph by Charles Kegg, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2023-04-12 - Chapel interior to front (Photograph by Clinton Miller, via Facebook, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2014-09-10 - Nave (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)
2014-09-10 - Chapel Interior, Chancel, and Twin Organ Cases (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)
2014-09-10 - Pulpit and Organ Case (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)
2014-09-10 - Organ Case (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)
2014-09-10 - Chapel (right) and Church Exterior (Vintage Postcard; image courtesy of Len Levasseur/Database Manager)
Unknown - Chapel Exterior (Photograph (1912) from <i>The American Architect</i>; image courtesy of Len Levasseur/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Right
- 3 manuals
- 27 stops
- 4 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Angled Jambs
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 30 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has tutti thumb pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2005-11-29 - Identified through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: <br><i> Rebuild of E. M. Skinner Opus 179 (1910), incorporating some parts from Opus 324 (Victory Theatre, 1920).</i> -Database Manager
2014-02-14 - Updated through online information from Jennifer Bolmarcich. -- As a volunteer archivist for United Congregational Church, this information comes from church records about the organ and the repairs and rebuilding performed over the past century. -Database Manager
2019-07-24 - Updated by Solena Rizzato, who maintains the organ. <br> <br> -Database Manager
Stoplist
Specification from OHS Convention Handbook, 2015 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
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