Better Pipe Organ Database

Steere & Turner [John S. Steere] Opus 170 (1882)

Greenstone/Pullman United Methodist Church: Sanctuary
11211 S. St. Lawrence Avenue
Chicago, IL

OHS convention: 2002

Images

2015-12-23 - Organ Interior Tracker Action (Photograph by Pastor Luther Mason/Database Manager)

Unknown - Sanctuary Interior, Chancel, and Organ Case ((1890's) Archival Photograph; image courtesy of Pastor Luther C. Mason/Database Manager)

2015-12-23 - Console (Photograph by Pastor Luther C. Mason/Database Manager)

2015-12-23 - Builder's Name Stencil (Photograph by Pastor Luther C. Mason/Database Manager)

2015-12-23 - Organ Case (Photograph by Pastor Luther C. Mason/Database Manager)

2015-12-23 - Console (Photograph by Pastor Luther C. Mason/Database Manager)

2015-12-23 - Pipework (Photograph by Pastor Luther C. Mason/Database Manager)

Unknown - Church Exterior (Photograph by Pastor Luther C. Mason/Database Manager)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
Console position: Keydesk Attached
2 manuals
23 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Mechanical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1984 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Originally called Greenstone Church. Rebuilt (or restored?) by Roderer 1967. -Database Manager

2005-02-22 - Citations Chairman Stephen Schnurr reports the congregation merged with two others and is now known as the Greenstone United Methodist Church, using the Pullman church building. -Database Manager

2012-11-02 - Updated through online information from T. Daniel Hancock. -- The Stopt Diapason, October 1982, reports that the Trumpet and Clarionet are both enclosed in the Swell box, and that the Clarionet only goes to tenor-c. There are three couplers. -Database Manager

2016-01-01 - Updated through online information from Pastor Luther C. Mason. <br>For an organ built over 132 years ago, it still has great sound and beauty, the Greenstone UMC, doesn't have a regular organist to play every Sunday, but has a couple guest organist that play on special occasions. -Database Manager

2022-04-06 - Kurt Roederer, Evanston, Illinois-1968 Restoration -Paul R. Marchesano

Stoplist

Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Pullman Methodist Church, Chicago
1882 Steere & Turner, Op. 170
(Stoplist: David Schnute from T 10:4:4)

GREAT
16' Bourdon [bass?]
16' Bourdon
8' Open diapason
8' Melodia
8' Dulciana
4' Octave
4' Flute d'amour
2-2/3' Twelfth
2' Fifteenth
III Mixture
8' Trumpet
8' Clarionet

SWELL
8' Open diapason
8' Stopped diapason
8' Salicional
8' Aeoline
4' Flute harmonic
4' Violina
2' Flautino
8' Bassoon
8' Oboe
tremolo

PEDAL
16' Open diapason
16' Bourdon

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