Schermerhorn Street Evangelical Lutheran Church
61 Schermerhorn Street
New York City: Brooklyn, NY
OHS convention: 1969
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
Unknown - Church exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Brooklyn Public Library via the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Unknown - Console and James Palgrove III (Photograph by Larry Trupiano via the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Unknown - Organ case (Photograph by Larry Trupiano via the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)
Unknown - Organ Case (Photograph by Thomas Murray via the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project/Jeff Scofield)
Consoles
Main
- Organ type: Traditional With a Keyboard Cover That Can Be Lifted To Form a Music Rack
- Console position: Keydesk Attached
- 3 manuals
- 31 stops
- 31 registers
- 4 divisions
- Key action Type: Electrical
- Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
- Manual compass: 58 notes
- Pedal compass: 30 notes
- Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
- Combination action: Adjustable Mechanical
Notes
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1969. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Building sold to St. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox (after 1969?). Tracker-Pneumatic action (Barker lever?) Great stops above 8' enclosed. Compass 58/30. -Database Manager
2008-10-03 - Updated through information posted to PipeChat October 3, 2008 by Sebastian Gluck: "I own Opus 408, a three-manual of about 35 ranks that includes one stop originally intended for the Chicago Auditorium Theatre." -Database Manager
2009-08-30 - Updated through on-line information from Sebastian M. Gluck. -- Building razed, organ in storage. Three stops prepared for and never installed (two in the Pedal, one in the Great). Choir Dulciana was originally supposed to go to the Chicago Auditorium Theatre Choir division at 4'. 3-1/2" wind throughout. -Database Manager
2011-02-21 - Updated through on-line information from Connor Annable. -Database Manager
2020-11-21 - From the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project: For their second building, the German Evangelical Church selected Frank Roosevelt of New York City to build the new organ. The three-manual organ, which was powered by a hydraulic engine, had 34 stops and cost $10,000. Hugo Troetschel, a native of Weimar, Germany, and a student of Franz Liszt, played the dedicatory recital in 1890. Mr. Troetschel served as organist for 52 years, presenting a total of 250 free bi-weekly recitals at the church by the time he died in 1939 at the age of 81. After the church was closed in 1969, the Roosevelt organ remained in the vacant building only to suffer from vandalism. Prior to demolition of the church, the organ was purchased by Sebastian Glück and removed to storage. By the 1960s, downtown Brooklyn had been in a long decline and the church closed in 1969. After being vacant for several years, the church was acquired for possible expansion by St. Constantine and Helen Cathedral, a Greek Orthodox congregation located across Schermerhorn Street. In 2006, the once-proud Lutheran church was demolished and has been replaced by a luxury apartment building. -Jeff Scofield
Stoplist
Source: Larry Trupiano via the NYC AGO NYC Organ Project
Brooklyn, New York
Schermerhorn Street Evang. Lutheran Church
Frank Roosevelt Op. 408 1988 3/36
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GREAT SWELL
16' Dbl Open Diapason 58 16' Bourdon 58
8' Open Diapason 58 8' Open Diapason 58
8' Viola di Gamba 58 8' Stopped Diapason 58
8' Doppelflöte 58 8' Salicional 58
4' Octave 58 * 8' Vox Celeste 46
4' Hohlflöte prep * 4' Gemshorn 58
2 2/3' Octave Quint 58 * 4' Flute Harmonique 58
2' Super Octave 58 * III Cornet 174
III&IV Mixture 196 * 8' Cornopean 58
8' Trumpet 58 * 8' Oboe 58
8' Vox Humana 58
CHOIR Tremulant
8' Geigen Principal 58 PEDAL
8' Concert Flute 58
8' Quintadena 58 16' Open Diapason 30
8' Dolce 58 16' Bourdon 30
4' Flute d'Amour 58 16' Violone prep
2' Piccolo 58 10 2/3' Quint prep
8' Clarinet 58 8' Violoncello 30
Tremulant 16' Trombone 30
* enclosed with Choir prep - prepared for
[Received from Jeff Scofield November 20, 2020]
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