2009-06-02 - Identified through information in <i>List of More than 5200 Moller Pipe Organs</i> (Hagerstown, Maryland. M. P. Möller, 1928). -Database Manager
2017-05-03 - Updated by Steve Bartley, who gave this as the source of the information: 10/22/1910 Afro-American Newspaper - Recent visit to the church to see the current organ & photos in 1947 Anniversary booklet.<br> The Ames Congregation purchased the building, 2nd hand, in 1907-08.<br>The 10/22/1910 Afro-American Newspaper announced the church getting a new organ. <br> A 90th Anniversary booklet produced by the Ames Church, in 1947, shows two photographs of an encased organ sitting front/center of the church, behind the pulpit. The building is square in shape, and the organ looks somewhat small in comparison to the space. Also the organ facade has wood-work at around the top-sides-bottom, more in the stye found pre 1880s. The casework design is not similar to what Moller would have been putting out in 1910, but is similar to some Pomplitz organs of the late 1860s and 70s. There are other "Moller" organs, in Baltimore which were actually rebuilds of older tracker organs. This too might be one. <br>A recent visit to the church, by this reviewer, revealed that sometime in the late 20th century, the tracker organ was removed and a renovation of the space created two balcony level chambers, near the pulpit/choir area with two early Moller organs, one had been a tubular action, the other an early electro-pneumatic, have been installed in a crude manner. the pipe work on these two organs say they were from other Moller installations. -Database Manager
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