Better Pipe Organ Database

Estey Organ Co. Opus 855 (1911)

Methodist Episcopal Church / First United Methodist Church/ Faith United Methodist Church
35 Lowell Street (Five Points Intersection)
Methuen, MA

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

2022-07-10 - Exterior side (was the original front before church was rotated in 1950s) (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2022-07-10 - Exterior (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

ca 1920s - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Historic postcard, Methuen history, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

Around 1955 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Methuen History, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

1989-09-11 - Facade (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

1989-09-11 - Manuals, stop action keyboard (Photograph by James R. Stettner/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

2 manuals

Notes

2007-08-23 - Identified by James R. Stettner through information from the Estey Opus List, published in The Boston Organ Club newsletter, 1973-1979. -Database Manager

2022-07-11 - Ca. 1950, the building was rotated 90° from its original position and a parish hall was added. from organs of greater Lawrence by Robert J Reich: Organized 1833-4; merged 1995 with Ayers Village Methodist of Haverhill; 1st bldg. 1838; 2nd bldg. 1871, twice remodelled. 1st Meth. bldg. converted into child care center; Ayers Village bldg. sold to fundamentalist church; combined church bought land in west end of Methuen but has been unable to build; met for two years in rented quarters in a Methuen school, then meeting temporarily with Pleasant St. Methodist in Salem, now disbanded. *P 1st organ: Ryder #6, 1871, at right of pulpit; dedication concert 9/27/1871 played by George H. Ryder. * 2nd organ: Estey #855, 1911, pneumatic, $2400, half from Carnegie, c1995 organ was dismantled. -Andrew Scanlon

Stoplist

Stoplist copied from the console June, 1988 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Methuen, Massachusetts
First United Methodist Church

Estey Organ Co., Opus 835, 1911 - Original Specifications

GREAT
   Gr.  8'  Open Diapason            61
   Gr.  8'  Melodia                  61
   Gr.  8'  Dulciana                 61
   Gr.  4'  Octave                   61

SWELL (Expressive)
   Sw.  16' Bourdon                  61
   Sw.  8'  Open Diapason            61
   Sw.  8'  Stopped Diapason         61
   Sw.  8'  Salicional               61
   Sw.  8'  Voix Celeste       (tc)  49
   Sw.  8'  Aeoline                  61
   Sw.  4'  Flute Harmonic           61
   Sw.  8'  Oboe                     61   Labial (reedless).
   Sw.      Tremolo

PEDAL
   Ped. 16' Bourdon                  30
   Ped. 16' Lieblich Gedeckt   (Sw)  --

COUPLERS
   Swell to Pedal                   [8]
   Great to Pedal                   [8]
   Swell to Great                   [8]
   Swell to Great 8ves              [4]

FOOT LEVERS
   Swell No. 1  -  8' Aeoline
   Swell No. 2  -  8' OD, 8' SD, 8' Aeol., 4' FH, 8' Oboe
   REV          -  Great to Pedal Reversible
   Great No. 1  -  8' Mel.; Ped. 16' Lieb. Ged.
   Great No. 2  -  8' OD, 8' Mel., 4' Oct.; Ped. 16, 16

PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   Swell Expression              (bal.)
   Crescendo                     (bal.)

ACTION: Tubular-pneumatic key and stop to ventil chests
VOICES: 13
STOPS: 14
RANKS: 13
PIPES: 750

NOTES
Stops were controlled by a miniature keyboard placed over the Swell
manual. Pressing a white key activated the stop whose name was engraved
on the front of the key. Pressing the adjacent black key cancelled the
stop.

 [Received on line from James R. Stettner June 08, 2009.]