Better Pipe Organ Database

Stevens & Co. (1876ca.)

First Unitarian Church / Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
201 W. North St.
Geneseo, IL

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

Images

Unknown - Church Interior, Chancel, and Organ Case (organ as installed when Unitarian) ((before 1930) Photograph by Levsen Organ Co.; used with permission/Database Manager)

Unknown - Church Interior, Chancel, and Organ Case (organ as relocated when Episcopalian) ((after 1930) Photograph by Levsen Organ Co.; used with permission/Database Manager)

Unknown - Organ Case after fire ((2006) Photograph by Levsen Organ Co.; used with permission/Database Manager)

Unknown - Left Stopjamb ((2006) Photograph by Levsen Organ Co.; used with permission/Database Manager)

Unknown - Right Stopjamb ((2006) Photograph by Levsen Organ Co.; used with permission/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
17 stops
14 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 25 notes
Pedal Type: Flat Straight
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination action: None

Notes

2004-10-30 - The number of stops is not exact; at least one is a short compass stop and could be considered a half rank. -Database Manager

2006-03-20 - The church was damaged by a fire on 20 Nov 2005. The sanctuary is to be demolished, but the organ may be salvaged as of March 2006. -Database Manager

2006-03-20 - Purchased 2nd hand in 1890 for the Unitarian Church in Geneseo. The building and organ were sold to the Episcopalians in 1853, and the organ then moved from front center to the west wall of the chancel. -Database Manager

2007-06-26 - Updated through online information from Lynn Thompson. -- The organ is currently owned by Levsen Organ Company, Buffalo, Iowa, and is available for restoration and relocation. -Database Manager

2007-10-14 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The history of the organ on the Levsen website seems to indicate that the organ was original to the Unitarian church. It also states that the Episcopal Diocese purchased the property from the Unitarians in the 1920s. -Database Manager

2016-03-17 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Copied from photographs of the stopjambs taken March 9, 2006 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Geneseo, Illinois
First Unitarian / Holy Trinity Episcopal

STEVENS & Co., 1876
Unknown Builder, 1920's - Moving within building


GREAT                                           COUPLERS (Drawknob)
   [8']  Open Diapason                 56          Pedals & Swell                  [8]
   [8']  Melodia Treble                44          Pedals & Great                  [8]
   [8']  Stop'd Diapason Bass          12
   [8']  Dulciana                      56          Great & Swell                   [8]
   [8']  Keraulophon             (tg)  37
   [4']  Principal                     56
   [4']  Flute                   (tc)  44       PEDAL MOVEMENTS
   [3']  Twelfth                       56          Swell Expression             (bal.)
   [2']  Fifteenth                     56


SWELL (Expressive)
   [8']  Sw. Open Diapason       (tc)  44
   [8']  Sw. Stop. Diap. Treble  (tc)  44
   [8']  Sw. Stop. Diap. Bass          12
   [8']  Sw. Viol de Gamba             56
   [4']  Sw. Principal Treble    (tc)  44
   [4']  Sw. Principal Bass            12
   [8']  Sw. Hautboy             (tc)  44
         Tremolo                                ACTION: Mech. Key & Stop
         blank drawknob
                                                VOICES: 14

PEDAL (25 notes)                                STOPS: 17
   [16'] Ped. Bourdon                  18
         Pedal Check                            RANKS: 14

   Bellows Alarm                                PIPES: 691

 [Received from James R. Stettner 2013-05-04.]