2010-12-26 - Identified through on-line information from Richard Berges. -- A friend played it in the 1970's and it worked then, the family is going broke and lacks funds to maintain the property as well as it would like. -Database Manager
2013-07-02 - Updated through online information from David Poile. -Database Manager
2023-11-21 - From *Sun Paper* May 13, 1854 Article describing the "New Church" at Doughoregan Manor out side of Ellicott City, Maryland. The article includes some details of the construction & appointments, including the new organ by Henry Berger. Mr Berger has also built a first rate organ for the new church, which will be performed upon to-marrow during ceremonies. The music is enclosed in a case of Grecian architecture, measuring 10 feet in height, 6 feet wide and 4 feet deep. It contains all the brilliant stops, and has been thoroughly and satisfactorily performed on by professors of music. In 2013, this writer was called in to inspect and make repairs to a large two manual & Pedal Mason & Hamlin reed organ in the balcony of the Doughoregan Chapel at the Carroll Mansion outside of Ellicott City. At that time the chapel was being painstakingly restored, to a near original state. Steve Blaes operations manager for the estate, told me that the family had not located a record of when the large reed organ had been installed. He also was unaware of the Berger organ, which I provided, to him, the Sun Paper article. He did think that the Berger organ may have been damaged, at some time in the distant past, as there was much roof damage and damage to the balcony directly under the bell coate, which is only place the Berger organ could have been placed, in the tight balcony. It is possible that the Berger organ was not installed in the balcony, but on the main floor in the transept opposite the sacristy. Mr. Blaes also said that the church had been part of the original 18th century 5 part mansion, but it was not as large, and that the present building was the result of the 1854 renovation. He also said that the chapel served the residents in the area, for many decades until the St. Louis Church, Clarksville, Maryland built in the late 1800s. -Steven Bartley
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