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C. S. Haskell [Haskell Pipe Organ Manufacturing Co.] (1911)

First Church of Christ, Scientist
4012 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA

Note: Not playable. (in this location)


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Unknown - Auditorium and organ facade (Jim Lewis collection, courtesy of Jim Lewis (c. 1920)/Database Manager)

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Notes

2006-11-16 - 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> Pipework retained in Aeolian-Skinner Opus 881 (1932).</i> -Database Manager

2021-11-24 - Built by Charles E. Haskell, and appeared in a July, 1910 listing published in *The Diapason* by the firm. In October 1995, the members of First Church and Fifth Church, Philadelphia voted to disband and consolidate as a new branch, taking the name of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Philadelphia. The edifice of Fifth Church at 1915 Pine Street became the location of the new First Church. Building currently owned by University of Pennsylvania, used as a performance space, named "The Rotunda Building." -Paul R. Marchesano


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