Unknown - Building exterior (Photograph by NYC AGO NYC Organ Project, Steve Lawson, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Unknown - Chapel interior (Photograph by NYC AGO NYC Organ Project, Steve Lawson, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
2008-03-07 - Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr. -Database Manager
2011-01-24 - Updated through on-line information from Connor Annable. -Database Manager
2023-03-14 - From the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project, Steven E. Lawson: From 1944 until 1988, the United Lutheran Church House was located in a former residence on the southeast corner of Madison Avenue and 35th Street. The brownstone Renaissance Revival town house was built in 1852 for Anson Phelps Stokes (1838-1913), who was a merchant, banker, publicist, and multimillionaire. Noted for its graceful balconies and wrought iron grillwork, the Stokes mansion had 45 rooms, 22 fireplaces and a dozen baths. In 1904, the mansion was purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan for his son, J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr. The Lutheran Church bought the building for $265,000 in 1944. It was used as headquarters for several Lutheran groups, including the American section of the Lutheran World Convention, the National Lutheran Council, and the United Lutheran Synod of New York. In latter years, the building housed the world headquarters for the Lutheran Church in America. What was originally the private library was transformed into a chapel that contained an Italian marble altar and an organ. In 1988, the Lutherans consolidated and formed the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, after which they moved their headquarters to Chicago. The mansion was then purchased for $15 million by the Pierpont Morgan Library, located just to the south, and plans were drawn by Voorsanger & Mills Associates to adapt the mansion to the library's needs. -Jeff Scofield
Source: Courtesy of the OHS Archives
New York, New York
United Lutheran Church House
Möller Op. 7119 1944 2/3
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GREAT SWELL
8' Principal 73 8' Rohrfloete
8' Rohrfloete 85 8' Viole Dolce
8' Viole Dolce 85 4' Flute
4' Prestant 4' Viole
4' Flute 2 2/3' Nazard
4' Viole 2' Piccolo
2' Fifteenth 8' Fagotto tc 73
Chimes prep 4' Clarion
Tremulant
PEDAL
16' Bourdon 12
8' Principal
8' Flute
8' Viole
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