Holy Rosary Catholic Church: Sanctuary; rear gallery
35 Essex St.
Lawrence, MA
Images
July 2022 - Organ in rear gallery (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon /Andrew Scanlon )
2022-06-30 - Essex Street side exterior (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon /Andrew Scanlon)
1950s - Gallery, rose window, pipe facade and console (Photograph from an archival source: Holy Rosary Anniversary Book , submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
Unknown - Church exterior, west end (Photograph by Unknown, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
Unknown - Church exterior (Photograph by Unknown, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
July 2019 - High Altar (Photograph by Joseph Olefirowicz, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
July 2019 - Nave and high altar from organ gallery (Photograph by Joseph Olefirowicz, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
July 2019 - Console (Laws, Austin style) (Photograph by Joseph Olefirowicz, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
July 2019 - Nave and rear gallery, showing organ facade (Photograph by Joseph Olefirowicz, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/ANdrew Scanlon)
2022-07-08 - Organ facade in the rear gallery (Andrew Scanlon/Jim Stettner)
2025-01-15 - Console (Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2025-01-15 - Pedalboard (Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2025-01-15 - Unique side-to-side toggle SFZ (Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2025-01-15 - Builder's nameplate (Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2025-01-15 - Façade gallery level (Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2025-01-15 - Façade from console (Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2025-01-15 - Swell and Pedal stoptabs (Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2025-01-15 - Choir and Great stoptabs (Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
2025-01-15 - Gallery, console, façade (Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Center
- 3 manuals
- 4 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Tilting/Rocking Tablets Above Top Manual
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 30 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Not Meeting AGO Standards)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
- Has coupler toe pistons
- Has tutti toe pistons
Notes
2007-05-14 - Identified through online information from Joseph Olefirowicz. -- Restoration of rebuilt E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings. A common "victim" to Laws electrification ca. 1930, this organ was completely restored by the Beaudry Organ Company in ca. 1984 and is in excellent playable condition. - Its roots are presumed to be of Hook origin. The entire organ is under electro-pneumatic action, with a faux facade at the back of the church in the choir loft. -Database Manager
2007-10-15 - Identified through online information from Joseph R. Olefirowicz. -- Carvings on the pipework helped solve the mystery of the origin of the instrument, after the 1934 Laws rebuild and installation into the current church. Robert Reich pulled the bass pipe of the Great Fifteenth during a touch-up tuning before an organ recital, and found the Hook's opus number and year carved into the pipe. E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings' Opus 599 was originally in Asylum Hill Congregational Church in Hartford, CT. According to church records there, a new organ replaced this instrument in 1911, but there is no documentation about the instrument between 1911 and its appearance as a new installation by Laws in Lawrence, Massachusetts. This information can fill in the blank to the II/30 organ at Asylum Hill Congregational in Hartford, Connecticut (1871, Opus 599, E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings) - whose documentation of current location is incomplete. -Database Manager
2024-02-29 - From "The Tracker" Vol 28 No. 3, 1984: "Philip A. Beaudry & Co. of Lowell, MA., have completed renovations and tonal rebuilding of the organ at Holy Rosary Roman Catholic Church, Lawrence, MA. The organ's exact original provenance is unknown. The Lawrence Tribune reported on an unknown date in 1934 that the organ was dedicated in 1910 by Pietro Yon. William Laws removed it in 1933 and returned an organ of 3m in 1934, built on old slider windchests with electro-pneumatic pull-downs and stop action, having an Austin-style console, and containing pipes bearing the opus numbers of two E. & G. G. Hook & Hastings organs built for other locations: in the Swell and Great, pipes of op. 599 of 1871 listed for Asylum Hill Congregational Church in Hartford, Ct.; in the Choir, pipes of op. 523 of 1870 listed for Heiskell Methodist Church in Philadelphia. Mr. Beaudry reports that the Swell windchest had received three new stops prior to 1934 by the addition of channel blocks and sliders on the front and back, and that most ranks had been enlarged in scale by one pipe. His firm revoiced and re-regulated the pipework with some inter-divisional exchange of ranks, replaced a missing mixture rank, added a 16' Trombone to the Pedal, and refurbished the existing mechanism." -Andrew Scanlon
Stoplist
Source: Taken from console photos
Great Diapason 16, Principal 8, Doppel Flöte 8, Octave 4, German Gamba 8, Flûte Harmonique 4, Twelfth 2 2/3, Fifteenth 2, Mixture IV, Trumpet 8, Chimes
Swell Bourdon 16, Diapason 8, Salicional 8, Gedeckt 8, Voix Céleste 8, Principal 4, Traverse Flute 4, Octavin Harmonique 2, Violina 4, Mixture III, Contra Fagotto 16, Trumpet 8, Tremolo, Oboe 8
Choir Geigen Diapason 8, Rohr Gedeckt 8, Geigen Prinzipal 4, Nasat 2 2/3, Rohr Flöte 4, Terz 1 3/5, Geigen Octav 2, Clarinet 8, Chimes, Tremolo
Pedal Diapason 16, Resultant Principal 32, Principal 16, Lieblich Gedeckt 16, Bourdon 16, Octave 8, Flûte 8, Violoncello 8, Super Octave 4, Trombone 16, Violina 4
Great to Great 4, Swell to Great 16, Swell to Great 8, Swell to Great 4, Choir to Great 16, Choir to Great 8, Choir to Great 4, Choir to Choir 16, Choir to Choir 4, Swell to Choir 16, Swell to Choir 8, Swell to Choir 4, Swell to Swell 16, Swell to Swell 4, Swell to Pedal 4, Great to Pedal 8, Swell to Pedal 8, Great to Pedal 4, Choir to Pedal 8
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