Highway Tabernacle Church
Spring Garden and 21st
Philadelphia, PA
OHS convention: 1996, 2016
Images
2019 - Console (Photograph by Playing and Preserving, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)
2019 - Trackers (Photograph by Playing and Preserving, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)
2019 - Room (Photograph by Playing and Preserving, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)
2019 - Building (Photograph by Playing and Preserving, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)
2019 - Organ in balcony (Photograph by Playing and Preserving, submitted by John Roper/John Roper)
2015-02-16 - Balcony and Organ Case (Photograph by Len Levasseur/Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- 2 manuals
- 23 stops
- Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Notes
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1996 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Formerly Fifth Baptist. Restored by Patrick J. Murphy & Assoc. after fire damage in 1987. -Database Manager
2016-02-01 - Updated through online information from John Igoe. <br>Web Site notes: Hilborne L. Roosevelt built their Opus 148 for what is now Highway Tabernacle Church in their Philadelphia shops in 1884. It remained virtually untouched in its original location for another 102 years until being restored by Patrick J. Murphy in 1986.<br><br> What makes this story truly remarkable is that on the night of August 21, 1986 the church was all but destroyed by fire. The manual pipes had all been removed and stored in the adjoining parish hall and the reservoir had been removed to a hallway to be sent out for releathering when the fire hit. The metal façade pipes, still in place, were damaged beyond repair as were a number of the wooden bourdon pipes in the façade to the sides of the metal pipes.<br><br>Recycled Bourdon pipes from Roosevelt Opus 100, 1883, were located to replace the damaged ones. A. R. Schopp constructed new metal façade pipes drawings to match the ones destroyed in the fire. The windchests were re-tabled and repaired and the fire-damaged action restored. The result is an organ that is much as Hilborne Roosevelt left it in 1884. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Stoplist provided by the 2016 OHS National Convention committee Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Highway Tabernacle
Hilborne L. Roosevelt Op. 148 1884 2/27
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GREAT SWELL PEDAL
16' Dbl Open Diapason 58w&m 16' Bourdon 58w 16' Open Diapason 27w
8' Open Diapason 58m 8' Violin Diapason 58m 16' Bourdon 27w
8' Doppelflöte 58m 8' Stopped Diapason 58m 8' Violoncello 27m
8' Viola di Gamba 58m 8' Dolce 46m
8' Dulciana 46m 4' Flute Harmonique 58m
4' Octave 58m 4' Gemshorn 58m
2 2/3' Octave Quint 58m 2' Flageolet 58m
2' Super Octave 58m III Cornet 174m
III Mixture 196m 8' Cornopean 58m
8' Trumpet 58m 8' Oboe 58m
Tremulant
PEDAL MOVEMENTS
Great Piano, Great Forte
Swell Piano, Swell Forte
Great to Pedal Reversible
COUPLERS (ny on/off thumb pistons
Swell to Great
Swell to Great Octaves
Great to Pedal
Swell to Pedal
[Received from Jeff Scofield April 1, 2016]
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