Better Pipe Organ Database

Hook & Hastings Opus 1141 (1883)

Calvary Presbyterian Church/Metropolitan Baptist Church/Old Church Society, Inc.
SW Clay
Portland, OR

Images

2006-06-20 - Original Installation (Photograph by unknown photographer. Submitted by James R. Stettner./Database Manager)

1998-12-29 - Chancel and Organ (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

2006-06-20 - Chancel and Organ (wider view) (Photograph courtesy of Bond Organ Builders, Inc./Database Manager)

2006-06-20 - Chancel and organ from side angle (Photograph courtesy of Bond Organ Builders, Inc./Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
18 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Combination action: Fixed Mechanical

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1997 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Formerly Calvary Presbyterian Church. Bldg sold to Evangel Baptist 1948. Sold to 1st Southern Baptist (Metropolitan Baptist) in1951. After 1969, owned by the Old Church Society, Inc. Organ in almost daily use as of 1997. -Database Manager

2015-05-30 - Updated by James R. Stettner, based on personal knowledge of the organ. -- The building was later occupied by a Southern Baptist denomination who moved out in the 1960's. The building was facing destruction. Efforts by local advocates saved the building and in 1969 it became The Old Church Society and is run as a concert venue and place for weddings and meetings. The organ lost its original Great 8' Trumpet and Swell 8' Oboe, and the Forte/Piano composition trundles were removed. Those were all later replaced during a 1997 restoration by the Bond firm of Portland, Oregon. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

The Old Church, Portland, OR                                                     
1883 Hook and Hastings Op. 1141
(Stoplist - Carol Kent.)

GREAT
16' Bourdon
8' Open Diapason
8' Melodia
8' Dulciana
4' Octave
3' Twelfth
2' Fifteenth
III Mixture
8' Trumpet

SWELL
8' Open Diapason
8' Stopped Diapason
8' Viola
4' Flauto Traverso
4' Violina
2' Flautino
8' Oboe/Bassoon

PEDAL
16' Open Diapason
16' Bourdon

Accessories:  Tremolo, Swell to Ped, Swell to Great, Great to Ped

In 1883 building.The oldest original installation in the Northwest.

Calvary Presbyterian Church sold the building in the 1930's; it changed hands several times more, falling upon harder and harder times. In 1968 the Baptist congregation that owned the building moved and the site was destined to become a parking lot. The Old Church Society was formed, obtained the deed to the property and repaired it. The building is in frequent use as a wedding chapel, concert hall and meeting venue.

The organ was made playable in 1968 by Charles Fisk, Barbara Owen and Kenneth Coulter.  Richard Bond Organ Builders is currently (1997)  restoring the organ.

Websites

ORGAN | The Old Church - History and description, photographs (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)