2007-12-04 - Identified from factory documents and publications courtesy of Stephen Schnurr. -Database Manager
2009-02-07 - Identified through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -Database Manager
2010-02-23 - Updated through on-line information from Chad Boorsma. -- The organ was rebuilt by Lauck Pipe Organ Company in 1990. Work included a new console. -Database Manager
2011-03-02 - Updated through on-line information from Connor Annable. -Database Manager
2013-08-02 - Updated through online information from Steven E. Lawson. -Database Manager
2023-05-02 - From the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project, Steven E. Lawson: Ernest Levy was born in Germany in 1853, and at the age of 24 emmigrated to the United States with his brother, Hermann, after spending several months as traders in the diamond fields of the Transvaal, South Africa. In 1878, Ernest Levy walked into a New York auction room to get out of the cold. When he raised his hand to wipe his brow, the auctioneer took it as a signal for a $50 bid, and Ernest suddenly had a "jag of ribbon" knocked down to him. After selling the ribbon at a profit, Ernest and Hermann decided that the future lay in ribbons and established the Ernest & Hermann Levy company. The Levy brothers built their business slowly but well, and by 1922 the company had evolved to become the Century Ribbon Mills, Inc. Little else is known about Ernest Levy, but in 1925 he was one of three donors to save St. James' Protestant Episcopal Church, also known as "the Church of the Presidents," in Elberon, N.J. Ernest also built the West End Casino in West End, N.J. At the end of his life, Ernest Levy lived at 1160 Park Avenue, a fourteen-story apartment building designed by George T. Pelham and built in 1925. He died at the age of 76 on January 21, 1929. -Jeff Scofield
Source: Courtesy of the OHS Archives
New York, New York
Ernest Levy Residence
Möller Op. 4781 1927 2/6
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GREAT SWELL
8' Open Diapason 61 16' Bourdon 61
8' Salicional 73 8' Open Diapason GT
8' Vox Celeste 61 8' Stopped Flute 12
8' Rohr Flute SW 8' Salicional GT
4' Flute d'Amour SW 8' Vox Celeste GT
2' Piccolo SW 4' Orchestral Flute 12
8' Vox Humana 61 2 2/3' Flute 12th 7
Sub 2' Piccolo 5
Unison Off 8' Oboe syn
Super 8' Vox Humana GT
Blank Tremulant
Blank Sub
Unison Off
PEDAL Super
16' Bourdon 32 Blank
16' Lieblich Gedeckt SW
8' Flute Dolce SW
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