Unknown - Church interior, organ in gallery, Pre-1936. (Burton Collection, courtesy of Wayne T. Warren/Database Manager)
Unknown - Church exterior, ca. 1930s. (Burton Collection, courtesy of Wayne T. Warren/Database Manager)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2015-08-20 - The contract was for a new console, some new and replacement pipework and new manual chests for 1886 Roosevelt Op. 334 of 3 manuals and 24 stops. -Database Manager
2013-01-21 - Updated through online information from William M. Worden. -- This congregation failed and the church was sold to another church. Not many years thereafter, the church burned to a shell (1980s?). I presume the organ was still in it and was lost. -Database Manager
2013-07-17 - Updated through online information from Wayne Warren. -- Pipes were scribed: ABF 1887. Assuming AB Felgemaker built the organ originally. I helped inspect this organ when the original owners were preparing to move. Fabulous instrument. Date on console nametag was 1936. I was there as the church was burning in 1986. Very sad. -Database Manager
2014-05-05 - The church closed in 1979; the buildings were sold to the United House of Jeremiah, who vacated the facility not long after; the sanctuary burned to a shell on June 23, 1986. -Database Manager
2018-03-26 - Updated by William M. Worden, naming this as the source of information: Detroit Free Press, January 28, 1887.<br> The claim that this organ was by Felgemaker, based on inscriptions on the pipework, is disproved by the Detroit Free Press of January 28, 1887, which reported on the inaugural recital by Clarence Eddy the evening before. The article includes: "The occasion was the exhibition of the new Roosevelt grand organ..." -Database Manager
Stoplist copied from the factory specifications Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Detroit, Michigan
Woodward Avenue Baptist Church
Casavant Op. 1515 1936 3/45
Courtesy of the Casavant Frères Archives
St. Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada
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This was a console-only job for the existing organ
"actual stops" marked * new pipework marked +
GREAT SWELL
16' Double Open Diapason 68 * 16' Bourdon 68
* 8' 1st Open Diapason 68 * 8' Violin Diapason 68
* 8' 2nd Open Diapason 68 * 8' Stopped Diapason 68
* 8' Gamba 68 * 8' Salicional 68
* 8' Doppel Flute 68 * 8' Voix Celeste 68 +
8' Gemshorn 68 8' Aeoline 68
* 4' Octave 68 * 4' Principal 68
4' Harmonic Flute 68 * 4' Flauto Traverso 68
* 2 2/3' Quint 68 2' Flautino 61
* 2' Super Octave 61 *III Cornet 204
V Mixture 340 16' Double Trumpet 68
* 8' Tuba 68 + 8' Cornopean 68
* 4' Clarion 68 + * 8' Oboe 68 +
Sub 8' Vox Humana 68
Super 4' Clarion 68
Chimes 25 Tremulant
Sub
CHOIR Super
* 8' Violin Diapason 68
* 8' Concert Flute 68 PEDAL
* 8' Dolce 68 32' Double Open Diapason 12
8' Unda Maris 68 (independent quints)
8' Quintadena 68 * 16' Open Diapason 32
* 4' Rohr Flute 68 * 16' Bourdon 32
* 2' Piccolo 61 16' Violone (from 8') 12
* 8' Clarinet 68 + * 16' Gedeckt SW
8' Cor Anglais 68 * 8' Flute (Open Diap) 12
Tremulant * 8' Stopped Diapason 12
Sub * 8' Violoncello 32
Super * 16' Trombone 32 +
Chimes GT Chimes GT
Celesta 61
Celesta Sub
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