United Methodist Church
755 Main Street
Westbrook, ME
OHS convention: 1963, 1992
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
1964-12-13 - Church exterior (Photograph by John E. Kenderdine, Jr./Database Manager)
1964-12-13 - Church exterior (Photograph by John E. Kenderdine, Jr./Database Manager)
1973-07-24 - Church exterior (Photograph by John E. Kenderdine, Jr./Database Manager)
1963-03-05 - Sanctuary interior; gallery view (Photograph in the private collection of John E. Kenderdine, Jr./Database Manager)
1973-07-24 - Sanctuary interior; gallery view (Photograph by John E. Kenderdine, Jr./Database Manager)
1973-07-24 - Organ case (Photograph by John E. Kenderdine, Jr./Database Manager)
1973-07-24 - Keydesk from right (Photograph by John E. Kenderdine, Jr./Database Manager)
1973-07-24 - Manuals and stops from left (Photograph by John E. Kenderdine, Jr./Database Manager)
1973-07-24 - Manuals and stops from right (Photograph by John E. Kenderdine, Jr./Database Manager)
1973-07-24 - Great pipes: 8' Trumpet (Photograph by John E. Kenderdine, Jr./Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
- Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
- 3 manuals
- 27 stops
- 23 registers
- 4 divisions
- Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
- Stop action Type: Mechanical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
- Manual compass: 56 notes
- Pedal compass: 20 notes
- Pedal Type: Flat Straight
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
- Combination action: None
Notes
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1992 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - From State Street Congregational, Portland, ME (3-33s). Removed from there in 1892. Stored. Moved here in 1907. Restored by Wallace in 1984. 2nd Great Op. Diap 8' was never installed. In 1963 was said to be the oldest unaltered 3m. organ in New England. -Database Manager
2007-12-16 - Updated through information from Harold Stover: Removed and placed in storage by David Wallace; for sale in 2007. -Database Manager
2014-02-07 - Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ was restored by David E, Wallace & Co., LLC and reinstalled in 2009 at Church of Our Lady & St Rochus in Boom, Belgium. -Database Manager
Stoplist
Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Methodist Church, Westbrook, ME
1854 E. & G. G. Hook, Op. 173
(Stoplist: OH 1963:17)
Great (56 notes)
16' Open Diapason [TC] (pipes never installed)
8' Open Diapason
8' Melodia Treble [TF]
8' St. Diapason Bass (17 pipes)
4' Principal
2 2/3' Twelfth
2' Fifteenth
III Sesquialtra
8' Trumpet Treble [TC]
8' Trumpet Bass (12 pipes)
Swell (Chest is TC, 44 notes, No pipes for the bass octave, keys permanently connect to Choir)
16' Bourdon
8' Open Diapason
8' Viol di Gamba
8' St. Diapason
4' Principal
II Cornet
8' Trumpet
8' Hautboy
Tremulant
Choir (56 notes, unenclosed)
8' Dulciana
8' Viol di Amour (56 pipes)
St. Diapason Treble [TF]
St. Diapason Bass (17 pipes)
4' Principal
4' Wald Flute
8' Cremona [TF]
Pedal (20 notes)
16' Double Open Diapason
16' Bourdon
Couplers
Swel to Great Organ
Swel to Choir Organ
Choir to Great Organ sub 8vs
Great Organ to Pedals
Choir Organ to Pedals
No combination pedals
Bellows Signal or Pedal Check knob is now [1963] a blower switch
All ranks are full compass for their division noted to the contrary.
The organ was originally built for State Street Congregational, Portland, ME. It was replaced there by a 3-manual Frank Roosevelt organ (since rebuilt and extensively modified) in 1892. Stored until 1907, then placed here.
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