1911-06-26 - Organ (Photograph in church archives, digital image by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
1930-07-06 - Organ (Photograph in church archives, digital image by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2006-11-03 - Identified through online information from James R. Stettner. -- Free-standing & encased in a quarter-sawn oak case. 7-sectional façade containing 47 pipes arranged: 8-5-6-9-6-5-8. The organ was dedicated on January 20, 1911. It was later electrified. Photos from the late 1920s show this had already been done. The likely candidate for this was Seattle Kimball rep. Arthur D. Longmore. A detached, rolltop console was placed in a fixed, left position, and the originally stencilled façade pipes were painted gold. When the church sold the old building and moved to their new location on Broadview Dr., the organ was relocated by Don Gorman of Spokane and installed in a multi-purpose hall until the sanctuary was completed in later years. -Database Manager
Typed stoplist from James R. Stettner Source: Stoplist reconstructed from church documents and extant pipework Date not recorded
Lewiston, Idaho
First Methodist Church
W.W. KIMBALL CO., Opus ____, 1910-11 - Original Specifications – Reconstructed
<u>GREAT</u> <u>COUPLERS</u>
8 Open Diapason 61 Swell to Pedal
8 Melodia 61 Great to Pedal
8 Dulciana 61
4 Octave or Flute 61 Swell to Great
<u>SWELL (Expressive)</u> <u>FINGER PISTONS</u>
16 Bourdon 61 Undocumented
8 Violin Diapason 61
8 Stopped Diapason 61
8 Salicional 61 <u>FOOT LEVERS</u>
4 Harmonic Flute 61 Undocumented
8 Oboe 61
Tremolo
<u>PEDAL MOVEMENTS</u>
Swell Expression (bal.)
<u>PEDAL</u> Crescendo (bal.)
16 Bourdon 30
<u>ACTION</u>: T-P <u>VOICES</u>: 12 <u>STOPS</u>: 12 <u>RANKS</u>: 12 <u>PIPES</u>: 640 +/-
<u>NOTES</u>
This organ was originally built for the edifice located on the corner of 8th
Street and 6th Avenue. The organ was free-standing and encased in quarter-sawn oak.
The stenciled façade consisted of four flats divided by three towers, arranged:
8 - 5 - 6 - 9 - 6 - 5 - 8. The II-manual keydesk projected from the front, center
of the case.
Two different church publications differ as to when the organ was dedicated. The
church history, Memories of Our Church: 1881 - 1981, states, <i>"On January 20, 1911,
the Kimball organ was dedicated with a recital given by Dr. Ernest Evans, organist,
and assisted by Lovell Gettleson, violinist."</i> The dedication program for the 1983
rebuild gives the original inaugural date as February 3, 1911.
The organ was later electrified, perhaps by Seattle Kimball representative Arthur D.
Longmore. Photos from the late 1920's and later show the façade repainted in gold,
and a detached console located on the left side of the chancel with the organist
facing across the chancel.
When the congregation moved to its new facility at Broadview Drive, the organ was
moved by Don Gorman of Spokane, WA. and installed in a multi-purpose hall until the
sanctuary was completed in later years.
The exact nomenclature of stops and controls is not verifiable. The names given are
based on extant and other documented examples of the builder's work from this period.
<u>Sources</u>: Church history and files; JRS; extant pipework
First Methodist Church
8th Street & 6th Avenue
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