Swedish Lutheran Church / First Lutheran Church: Sanctuary; front
301 South College Street
Paxton, IL
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
ca. 1915 - Organ case, keydesk, and facade (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard [cropped & enlarged], submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
ca. 1910 - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
ca. 1915 - Sanctuary interior with organ at right (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
Unknown - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner/Jim Stettner)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
- Console position: Keydesk Attached
- 2 manuals
- 3 divisions
- Key action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
- Stop action Type: Tubular Pneumatic (Details Unknown)
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Notes
2017-05-05 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by William Dunklin, citing information from this publication: a vintage postcard. A vintage post card shows the pipe organ standing in an alcove to the right of the chancel. The 2-manual console is attached and has stop knobs in terraced jambs. The facade is a decorated pipe fence with Hinners standard frame and panel casework below the impost. 2017 photographs show the congregation is now called First Lutheran Church and a modernist designed pipe organ stands in the place of the Hinners. Its fate is unknown. -Database Manager
2022-11-26 - Despite the attribution of the organ to Hinners, there is no concrete evidence to support this. The wooden casework is not recogizeably Hinners, nor is the facade display. Most notably, the presence of 5 or 6 drawknobs in a horizontal row over the Swell keys for couplers and Sw. Tremolo are absent. Additionally, the Hinners opus list has only two listings for Paxton, Illinois and they are both for Presbyterian churches. -Jim Stettner
2022-11-26 - Subsequent research has shown the organ to have been built by the Bennett Organ Co. as their Opus 817 in 1915. Identified from the Bennett opus list. -Jim Stettner
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