2008-09-12 - Identified through on-line information from Jim Lewis. -- Two-manuals. Tubular-pneumatic action. Detached console with oblique face drawknobs on terraced jambs. Harris rebuilt the organ with electric action chests in 1902. -Database Manager
2008-09-13 - Updated through online information from Jim Lewis. -Database Manager
2021-06-06 - The Lincoln Avenue Methodist church was originally located at 744 N. Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena, California. (In early newspaper accounts, the church is listed as the "Lincoln-avenue Methodist Episcopal Church.") It was dedicated on April 17, 1898. The organ was the first built by Harris as an independent organ builder, following his previous partnerships with Henry C. Fletcher and George L. Maxfield. The organ made its formal debut on the same day as the church. According to David Lennox Smith, "a feature found noteworthy at the time was the placement of the console some twenty feet from the pipes." Following a merger with another church, the congregation vacated the building in 1968, with the organ being removed in the early 1970s. The church building was acquired by the United State Postal Service in 1979 and was subsequently moved in 1981 to the Heritage Square open-air museum in Los Angeles. The location of the organ, if extant, is unknown. -Edmond Johnson
Stoplist from <i>The King of Instruments in the Crown City 1888-2000</i> by James Lewis (The Ascensius Press: 2010) Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Pasadena, California
Lincoln Avenue Methodist Church
Murray M. Harris Company Opus 4 1898
2 manuals, 14 stops, 14 ranks
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GREAT ORGAN
8' Open Diapason 61
8' Dulciana 61
8' Clarabella 61
4' Principal 61
4' Flute d'Amour 61
2' Fifteenth 61
SWELL ORGAN
16' Bourdon 61
8' Violin Diapason 61
8' Salicional 61
8' Stopped Diapason 61
4' Harmonic Flute 61
2' Piccolo 61
8' Oboe 61
Tremolo
PEDAL ORGAN
16' Bourdon 30
16' Dolce (Bourdon) SW
Swell to Great
Swell to Pedal
Great to Pedal
[Received from Steven E. Lawson 2016-06-20]
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