Better Pipe Organ Database

Kimball, Smallman & Frazee (1923)

First Baptist Church
250 Haverhill
Lawrence, MA

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)

Images

Between 1850 and 1936 - Exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Historic postcard, Queen City Massachusetts, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

Consoles

Main

2 manuals

Notes

2013-05-10 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by James R. Stettner, based on information from Personal research into the history of organs in Lawrence, Massachusetts. -- The building and organ were destroyed by fire the day after Christmas - December 26, 1933. The congregation merged with Calvary Baptist Church of Lawrence in 1934 to become First Calvary Baptist Church. -Database Manager

Stoplist

Source: From the files of Robert J. Reich

Lawrence, Massachusetts
First Baptist Church

KIMBALL, SMALLMAN and FRAZEE, 1923 - Original Specifications


GREAT                                        COUPLERS
16   Bourdon                     61          Swell to Pedal                  8,4
8    Open Diapason               61          Great to Pedal                  8,4
8    Clarbella                   61
8    Gamba                       61          Swell to Great               16,8,4
8    Dulciana                    61 ♣
4    Octave                      61
4    Flute d'Amour               61          FINGER PISTONS
8    English Horn                61          Swell                         1 – 4
                                             Great                         1 – 4
Great to Great 16'                           Pedal                         1 – 4
Great Unison Off                             Adjuster
Great to Great 4'

                                             TOE STUDS
SWELL (Expressive)                           Gt. to Ped.                   (rev)
16   Lieblich Gedeckt            61 ∞        Full Organ                    (rev)
8    Open Diapason               61
8    Stopped Diapason            61
8    Viol d'Orchestre            61          PEDAL MOVEMENTS
8    Voix Celeste          (tc)  49          Swell Expression             (bal.)
8    Aeoline                     61          Crescendo                    (bal.)
4    Flute Traverso              61
4    Violina                     61
2    Flautino                    61          ACTION: Electro-Pneumatic
III  Dolce Cornet               183
8    Cornopean                   61          VOICES: 24     STOPS: 29; inc. chimes
8    Oboe                        61
8    Vox Humana                  61          RANKS: 16      PIPES: 1,540
     Tremolo

Swell to Swell 16'                           NOTES
Swell Unison Off                             The console was English style with
Swell to Swell 4'                            Skinner-style drawknobs, not the
                                             melodeon type at Lawrence Street
                                             Congregational Church. The Great 8'
PEDAL                                        English Horn was Hope-Jones style,
16   Open Diapason               32 ◘        a thin and blaring Trumpet, and not
16   Bourdon                     32 ◊        Skinner-type lovely solo stop.
16   Lieblich Gedackt      (Sw)  –- ∞
8    Gross Flute                 12 ◘
8    Stopped Diapason            12 ◊
8    Dulciana              (Gt)  –-          Sources: Robert J. Reich files


First Baptist Church
SE corner Haverhill & Amesbury Sts
Lawrence, Massachusetts

Documents

(1922-04-01) Write-up from THE DIAPASON April 1922 Description and stoplist -Jeff Scofield

Websites

Queen City Massachusetts - Church history and photos (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)