ca. 1890 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard (cropped), submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
2021-04-21 - Identified from the Hutchings-Votey opus list. According to the “Our History” page of the parish website, “The original organ of 24 stops was built in 1902 by the Hutchings-Votey Organ Company, Opus 1465, and was rebuilt in 1954 with 32 stops.” The Boston Organ Studio website states, “In 1902 the Hutchings-Votey Organ Co. of Boston installed a three-manual organ in St. Cecilia Church, opus 1465. The instrument of twenty-four speaking stops had electric action, and stood in the very center of the rear gallery in one case. The organ builders were George S. Hutchings (1835-1913), who started business in 1869, and Edwin Scott Votey (1856-1931), pioneer in the perfection of the player piano, who was Hutchings’ partner from 1901 to 1907. In 1902, the factory was on 23-37 Irvington Street in Boston (and in 1905-1908 at Albany Street in Cambridge near Massachusetts Avenue, before moving to Waltham, MA.)” -Jim Stettner
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