First Universalist Society [now private residence]
17 Church Street
Yarmouthport, MA
OHS convention: 1966
Images
2018-12-11 - Organ case in former sanctuary (Tyra Pacheco/Jim Stettner)
2018-12-11 - Organ case in former sanctuary (Tyra Pacheco/Jim Stettner)
2018-12-11 - Organ case/facade (Tyra Pacheco/Jim Stettner)
2018-12-11 - Organ facade (Tyra Pacheco/Jim Stettner)
Date unknown - Keydesk (Source unknown/Jim Stettner)
January 2025 - Organ case in former sanctuary (HPS Media Group for Sotheby's International Realty/Jim Stettner)
ca. 1905 - Church exterior (Digital Commonwealth/Jim Stettner)
2018 - Church exterior (OldHouseDreams.com/Jim Stettner)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With Hinged Doors That Enclose Keyboards
- Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
- 1 manuals
- 5 stops
- 6 registers
- 1 divisions
- Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
- Stop action Type: Mechanical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Vertical Rows on Flat Jambs
- Manual compass: 54 notes
- Pedal Type: No Pedalboard
Notes
2018-12-22 - This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ. Identified by James R. Stettner, listing this web site as a source of information: https://pipeorgandatabase.org/OrganDetails.php?OrganID=2347. The building was known as the Strawberry Hill Meeting House. The church was acquired in the early 1960's by Helen Pond & Herbert Senn and converted to a private residence. The organ was retained and is still extant at the time of this writing (Dec. 2018). The ornately designed case has a facade of 11 gold pipes arranged: 3-5-3. -Database Manager
2022-03-16 - The church was erected about 1835 and the first keyboard instrument used to accompany services was the two-rank c. 1855 S. D. & H. W. Smith melodeon, still in the gallery. The unusual little pipe organ was given about 1888 by J. Montgomery Sears of Boston, and the assembling of it may have been done at that time. However, it has the general appearance of an organ built before the Civil War, and there are even older parts, including what are evidently English pipes of the 18th century. The plain case of three flats has an interesting recessed keydesk with hinged doors; the chest has, at the front, room for at least three more stops; the keys are quite unusual in design. The St. Diapason is of wood, with bored stoppers from Middle C. The Fifteenth was taken out in 1942 during a "renovation," but was replaced in 1964 by the Andover Organ Company. -- *1966 OHS Handbook*
The Handbook attributes the date of the organ as c. 1850. -Paul R. Marchesano
2025-02-11 - The house is again on the market for $1.9 million as of January 2025. Real estate images show the organ to still be extant. Condition is unknown. -Jim Stettner
Stoplist
Source: 1966 OHS Handbook
MANUAL (CC-f3, 54 notes, unenclosed) Open Diapason (TC) 8 (42 pipes), Dulciana (TF) 8 (37 pipes), St. Diapason (TG#) 8 (34 pipes), St. Diapason Bass 8 (20 pipes), Principal 4 (54 pipes), Fifteenth 2 (54 pipes)
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