Better Pipe Organ Database

Estey Organ Co. Opus 1628 (1918)

First Methodist Episcopal Church / Hannah Tenney Memorial United Methodist Church
290 Main Street
Salem, NH

Images

2014 - Interior showing Estey organ at front. From newspaper article at church closing 2014 (Photograph by Eagle Tribune, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2014 - Exterior 2014 (Photograph by Eagle Tribune , submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
7 stops
7 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
Manual compass: 61 notes
Pedal compass: 30 notes
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None

Notes

2007-09-21 - Identified by James R. Stettner through information from the Estey Opus List, published in The Boston Organ Club newsletter, 1973-1979. -Database Manager

2007-09-27 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Free-standing and encased in a choir gallery on the right side of the sanctuary. Stops controlled via a Haskell miniature keyboard above the Swell manual. Pedal Bourdon forms sides of case. -Database Manager

2016-03-29 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. <br>The church was closed in 2014. The manse was placed for sale. Disposition of the church and organ are not known. -Database Manager

2022-07-10 - Church closed 2014. Bought and used now by Our Lady of Mount Carmel Traditional Roman Cathoic Church, a Tridentine-Rite church. -Andrew Scanlon

Websites

Salem Church Closes after Nearly a Century - Lawrence Eagle Tribune article about closing of church (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)