Better Pipe Organ Database

Austin Organs, Inc. (1988)

Middle Collegiate Church: Sanctuary
50 E. Seventh St.
New York City: Manhattan, NY

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

Images

2020-12-06 - Exterior front wall after the fire (Photograph from an archival source: via Facebook of West Side Presbyterian, Ridgewood NJ, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2002-09-09 - Church exterior (Photograph by Steven E. Lawson/Database Manager)

2002-09-09 - Sanctuary interior (Photograph by Steven E. Lawson/Database Manager)

2002-09-09 - Console and Chancel Organ Case (Photograph by Steven E. Lawson/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Console in Fixed Position, Left
3 manuals
39 stops
45 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: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2014-05-26 - Originally installed in 1931 as JH & CS Odell Op. 591; Antiphonal added by Odell in 1951; rebuil and tonal changes by Odell in 1960; rebuild and new console by Austin in 1988. -Database Manager

2020-12-06 - Building destroyed by fire on the night of 12/04/2020. -Robert Zanca

2022-03-26 - The sanctuary was completely gutted by an electrical fire that started in an adjacent building; the organ and the many Tiffany windows were completely lost. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

Stoplist from <i>The New York City Organ Project</i>, NYC AGO website Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

       New York, New York
       Middle Collegiate Church

       Austin   1988   3/47
       _______________________________________________

       GREAT                         SWELL
    8' Principal        61       16' Bourdon        61
    8' Doppelflöte      61        8' Gedeckt        61
    8' Gamba            61        8' Viola          61
    8' Dulciana         61        8' Viola Celeste  61
    4' Octave           61        4' Principal      61
    4' Wald Flute       61        2' Block Flute    61
    2' Super Octave     61    1 1/3' Larigot        61
  III  Mixture         183      III  Plein Jeu     183
    8' Trompete         61        8' Trompette      61
       Sub                        8' Oboe           61
       Unison Off                 4' Rohrschalmei   61
       Super                         Tremulant
                                     Sub
       CHOIR                         Unison Off
    8' Melodia          61           Super
    8' Flauto Dolce     61
    8' Flute Celeste    61           PEDAL
    4' Rohrflöte        61       16' Diapason       32
2 2/3' Nazard           61       16' Bourdon        32
1 3/5' Tierce           61       16' Gedeckt        SW
    8' Cromorne         61        8' Principal      32
       Tremulant                  8' Bass Flute     12
       Sub                        8' Gedeckt        SW
       Unison Off                 4' Principal      12
       Super                    III  Mixture        96

       ANTIPHONAL                    ANTIPHONAL PEDAL
    8' Principal        61       16' Violone        32
    8' Holzgedeckt      61        8' Principal      AN
    4' Octave           61        8' Gedeckt        AN
    4' Koppelflöte      61
    2' Doublette        61
  III  Mixture         183
    8' Petite Trompette 61
       Tremulant

      [Received online from Jeff Scofield May 26, 2014]