Date unknown (before 1906) - Sanctuary interior with organ in front (Ohio County Public Library Wheeling, WV/Jim Stettner)
before 1906 - Church exterior (Unknown/Jim Stettner)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2024-08-05 - This entry represents the installation of new organ. Notes about St. John's on the Ohio County Public Library website state (regarding contruction of the 2nd church edifice), "The building, ground, organ, and parsonage was reported to have cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $30,000. The previous church building on 18th Street was sold to First Presbyterian Church, where upon they opened the missionary Laughlin Chapel. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad would be the demise of the second structure not even 35 years later. For a number of years, the B&O had been, according to church records, demanding St. John’s sell their property. A price could not be agreed upon, and after a court case tried in 1906, St. John’s was forced to sell to the B&O. St. John’s Church and neighboring buildings were demolished to make way for the construction of the B&O Terminus Building, now West Virginia Northern Community College’s main campus building. In accordance with the terms of the sale, the congregation was able to salvage the memorial stained glass windows, the organ, the bell, the carpets, the altar and pulpit trappings, the pews, and the fixtures for gas and electric lights." -Jim Stettner
Source: Wheeling Daily Intelligencer May 9, 1873 p4 1873
Philip Muhl (1873) St. John's German Evangelical Protestant Church Wheeling, WV Great: 16 Double Open Diapason 8 Open Diapason 8 Stopped Diapason Bass 8 Stopped Diapason Treble 8 Salicional 4 Principal 4 Rohr Flute 2 2/3 Twelfth 2 Fifteenth Swell: 8 Open Diapason 8 Stopped Diapason Bass 8 Stopped Diapason Treble 8 Dulciana 4 Principal 4 Violino 4 Flute Harmonic Pedal: 16 Subbass Swell to Great Great to Pedal Swell to Pedal Calcant
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