ca. 1924 - Hitchcock Building, with Masonic Temple on right behind the car (Photograph from an archival source: cardcow.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2006-01-17 - 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> Removed in 1988; building razed; Southfield Organ Co. has console and chests.</i> -Database Manager
2009-11-04 - Updated through on-line information from John Elwood. -Database Manager
2015-07-04 - Updated through online information from Edward L. Stauff. -- In the late 1980's the Waterbury Masonic Temple building was sold to the Mattatuck Museum (which still occupies it as of 2015). At that time the organ was purchased for $500 and moved to private residence where it was extensively modified and eventually parted out. -Database Manager
2015-12-13 - Updated through online information from Daniel Faber. <br>16' Pedal Bourdon was purchased by and added to EM Skinner Opus 679, installed at St John's Episcopal Church, Charleston, WV in 1995 by Columbia Organ Works. -Database Manager
http://aeolianskinner.organsociety.org/Specs/Op00415.html; personal memory Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Waterbury, Connecticut, USA Masonic Temple Skinner Organ Company, 1923, Opus 415 2 manuals, 10 stops, 9 ranks, 520 pipes Great (enclosed, chamber 1) 8' Clarabella (61 pipes, mostly wooden) 8' Erzähler (61 metal pipes) 8' Quintadena (61 pipes) Twelve Bell (1 tubular chime, played from low C, not enclosed) Swell (enclosed, chamber 2) 8' Salicional (73 metal pipes) 8' Voix Celeste (73 metal pipes) 8' Concert Flute (73 pipes, mostly wooden) 8' Aeoline (73 metal pipes) 8' Unda Maris (61 metal pipes, from Tenor C) Pedal 16' Bourdon (32 wooden pipes) 16' Gedeckt (12 wooden pipes, ext. of Sw. Concert Flute) pitman chests (2) drawknob console façade: one flat of dummy pipes location: west end of lodge room [Received from Edward L. Stauff 2015-06-19.]
Typed stoplist Source: From Allen Kinzey Date not recorded
Waterbury, Connecticut
Masonic Temple
Skinner Organ Company Opus 415 1923
2 manuals, 10 registers, 9 stops, 9 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN (enclosed)
8' Clarabella 61
8' Erzähler 61
8' Quintadena 61
Twelve Bell 1 Chime
played from low C
SWELL ORGAN
8' Salicional 73
8' Voix Celeste 73
8' Concert Flute 73
8' Aeoline 73
8' Unda Maris (TC) 61
PEDAL ORGAN
16' Bourdon 32
16' Gedeckt 12 SW
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2017-03-21]
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