Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2016-11-26 - An original installation. Identified by Steve Bartley, based on personal knowledge of the organ. <br>Built as Roland Park Methodist Episcopal, merged, at this site with Grace Methodist, sold to North Baltimore Church of the Brethren (a Germanic Baptist denomination)in 1950; in 1986 occupied by North Baltimore Mennonite congregation. The organ sits in an added alcove behind the choir, which is behind the pulpit. The alcove is rather spacious with enough space to walk around the back of the organ. There is no indication it has ever been electrified. The attached key-desk was removed and covered with matching oak panels many years ago. <br>At first glance the facade would indicate it was a Moller organ, with two small columns supporting some of the larger facade pipes. The facade includes at least the bottom 12 of the Gt Diapason and the rest are dummies. The facade with its woodwork are in very good condition. All the interior pipes are gone. <br>The wind chests, swell box frame, all the tubular mechanism is relativity intact. The Great = 4 stops, Swell = 6 stops, pedal 1 stop. The swell box is just over 8' tall and is finely crafted and finished with heavy frame and panel construction. Details of the inner construction are very elegant and well finished of clear pine or poplar lumber. A double rise reservoir with two feeders is intact and appears to have been hand pumped, with no signs of a water motor or electric blower, though the church is located in a wealthy neighborhood, it seem likely that a water motor and blower would have been installed. <br>The Sun paper June 26, 1905 announced the dedication of the building and new organ, though did not mention the organ builder by name. It did say that Archer Gibson had designed the organ and it cost $4,000 for the organ and alcove, though the alcove (chamber) plaster is painted and slightly stenciled along with some finished wood trim indicate it had been completed sometime prior to the organ installation. <br>Currently this is only the third Kimball church organ known to have been installed in Baltimore. -Database Manager
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