Transfiguration Roman Catholic Church
929 Sycamore Street
Buffalo, NY
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
2015 - Church exterior (Wikipedia/Andrew Scanlon)
Before 2020 - Rear gallery showing some remaining organ stucture (Flickr/Andrew Scanlon)
Before 2020 - Rear gallery (Flickr/Andrew Scanlon)
before 1950 - Church interior (Polonia Trail/Andrew Scanlon)
ca. 2020 - Chamber and pedal pipe remnants seen amidst rubble following roof collapse in 2020 (Facebook/Andrew Scanlon)
Before 1945 - Church exterior (Preservation Ready Buffalo/Andrew Scanlon)
Consoles
Main
Notes
2013-11-07 - Altered and relocated existing organ.
Identified by William Dunklin, using information from this web site: http://www.savetheorgan.org/kbase/radiostations/#WGR.
-- Organ originally Wurlitzer opus 1118 installed at the Rialto Theatre, Lockport New York. In 1943 rebuilt it as Wurlitzer opus 2238 for radio station WGR. It is significant as the last pipe organ to leave the Wurlitzer factory. Relocated to Transfiguration R.C. Church without its percussions in 1947. The church closed in the 1990's and the organ reportedly removed to storage. -Database Manager
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