2017-05-25 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. <br>Identified by Steven Bartley, citing information from this publication: November 15, 1845 pg 1.<br>This church building was erected in 1821 (the 2nd building for this congregation) at 30th & M streets, moved to its present location, in 1872, at 3115 P St NW Washington DC. <br>James Hall was related to Thomas Hall, and settled in Baltimore in the early 1840s. His output of organs, under his name is small, though was builder/assembler for the Baltimore<br>branch of his brother-in-Law Henry Erben, during the 1850s.<br>The following is the entry in the Baltimore Sun Paper. <br>A Baltimore Built Organ.- A correspondent of the National Intelligencer gives the following description of a new<br>organ just built and erected in the Presbyterian Church at Georgetown, D.C., by Mr. James Hall , of Baltimore:-<br>"The Organ is fifteen feet in height, and of the Grecian order of architecture. It has twelve stops-six on the great organ<br>, and six on the swell. It has two rows of keys, with a pedal coupling.The stops are as follows:<br>In the great organ open diapason, stop diapason, principal, flute, twelfth, and fifteenth. In the swell, dulciana, stop diapason<br>principal, flute, fifteenth, stop diapason." -Database Manager
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