Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2009-06-11 - Identified from an advertisement offering the organ for sale by Dorian Organ Sales and Service, January 2008. Organ later combined with a Schuelke instrument, producing a three-manual hybrid. That organ was replaced by a Welte in 1930 and removed to a private residence. Removed from that installation and placed in storage in Oklahoma in 1999. -Database Manager
2018-05-31 - Updated by Thomas H. Cotner, who gave this as the source of the information: I owned this organ.<br> Organ was placed in my storage building in Martha, Oklahoma, in 1999. In April of 2018, a fire originating in the local cotton gin ignited the building (originally the First State Bank of Martha) and the entire wooden portion of the organ with the exception of the 16' wooden Violone was consumed in the fire. The Violone had been moved to my workshop for renovation before installation in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Lee's Summit, Missouri, which will be accomplished this year upon the construction of a new wind chest. Fortunately, all the metal pipes except the zinc basses were stored in my workshop, and have been saved from destruction. Destroyed in the fire was the 16' double open pedal diapason, all wind chests, reservoirs, shade frames and shades, and all wooden structure. -Database Manager
2022-03-29 - The church names for the installation of the Schuelke and Roosevelt organs had been reversed in prior entries in the database. See notes for information from the *1998 OHS Handbook,* whch gives detailed provenance on these organs. Michael Friesen, who researched this information, thinks that the Denver Man must have been George T. Foot, and suggest that the pipe count of 568 for the Swell indicates that the Vox Celestis was a TC stop. -Paul R. Marchesano
2022-03-29 - In 1893, a group of parishioners withdrew to establish St. Stephen's Mission, dedicating their church building in 1895, and installing a second-hand 2m Roosevelt organ, Op. 376 (1887) in 1898. Within a quarter of a century, it was clear that both parishes would benefit from joining forces; that came to pass in 1925. The building of Grace Church was sold; St. Stephen's was modified to become the parish house, and the present stone church in Gothic style, designed by the Boston architectural firm of Frohman, Robb and Little, was opened by the combined parish in 1926. -- *1998 OHS Handbook* -Paul R. Marchesano
2022-03-29 - "Fred H. Meunier added the Great division of the Grace Church Schuelke to the St. Stephen's Roosevelt as a Choir division, by way of providing a 3m organ for the new building. Whether the job was never finished or perceived of only as a stop-gap, the new church received the present Welte organ only two years later, in 1928." -- *1998 OHS Handbook* -Paul R. Marchesano
Source: 1998 OHS Handbook
Great organ (CC - A, 58 notes, enclosed with Swell) Open Diapason 8 (unenclosed), Viola di Gamba 8, Dolce 8, Doppel Flute 8, Quintadena 8, Octave 4, Trumpet 8
Swell organ (CC - A, 58 notes, enclosed) Bourdon 16 (treble and bass, split knob), Violin Diapason 8, Aeoline 8, Vox Celestis [TC] 8, Lieblich Gedeckt 8, Flute Harmonique 4, Dolce Cornet III, Oboe 8 (treble and bass, split knob)
Pedal organ (CCC to F, 30 notes) Open Diapason 16 (added in this installation), Violone 16, Bourdon 16, Contra Fagotto 16
Couplers Swell to Great, Swell to Great octaves, Swell to Pedal, Great to Pedal
Mechanical accessories Swell tremulant, Bellows signal, Wind indicator
Pedal Movements (Roosevelt patent automatic combination pedals) two affecting Great and Pedal stops and all couplers, two affecting Swell and Pedal stops and... (...Swell & Great to Pedal and Swell tremulant), Full organ pedal, Great to Pedal reversible coupler, Balanced swell pedal
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