Memorial Presbyterian Church: Sanctuary; front
29 W. North St.
Wilkes-Barre, PA
Images
2020 - Moller console (Photograph by David B. Schneider, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2020 - Sanctuary pre-restoration. Organ chambers in front with console. (Photograph by David B. Schneider, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
ca. 1914 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2020's - Church exterior (Church Archives/Jim Tartella)
2025-04-12 - Memorial Presbyterian, W-B (Jim Tartella/Jim Tartella)
2025-04-12 - Memorial Presbyterian, W-B (Jim Tartella/Jim Tartella)
2025-04-12 - Memorial Presbyterian, W-B (Jim Tartella/Jim Tartella)
Consoles
Replacement - Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
- Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
- 4 manuals
- 65 registers
- 6 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Stop Keys Above Top Manual
- Manual compass: 61 notes
- Pedal compass: 32 notes
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
- Has crescendo
- Combination action: 'Hold and Set' Pneumatic/Mechanical
- Has combination thumb pistons
- Has combination toe pistons
Notes
2009-10-31 - Identified through information in <i>List of More than 5200 Moller Pipe Organs</i> (Hagerstown, Maryland. M. P. Möller, 1928). -Database Manager
2022-09-28 - From the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation website, *"The size of the congregation declined in the late 20th century and eventually decreased to twenty-five members. The Memorial Church was formally dissolved by action of the Presbytery of Lackawanna on May 19, 2009. In 2011 the Presbytery of Lackawanna sold the property to King’s College for $125,000. Now operated as the new campus chapel and community event space, the church now serves as the worship space and gathering space for the King’s College and other members of the local community."* -Jim Stettner
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