ca. 1900 - Organ at front of sanctuary (Photograph from an archival source: 1905 Wm King brochure in OHS archives, submitted by James R. Stettner/James R. Stettner)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2022-04-11 - This organ is documented in the William King work list compiled by King researcher Dr. Donald R.M. Patterson, and published in *The Tracker* XVI:4:1971. He states this large and impressive organ was replaced by an electronic imitation in 1939, retaining the elegant facade. Following the merger of First, Hedding, and St. John's Methodist churches as Christ's Methodist Church in 1968, the historic First Methodist church was used as a day care center until it was demolished in 1972 to make way for a Chevrolet dealership (the year after Patterson noted in the annotated opus list that the case was still intact). This large and impressive building was begun in 1886 to replace an equally large 1871 building destroyed by fire on May 27, 1886. This organ had perhaps the most impressively decorated of King's signature "double story" facades, and with its detached console, also a common feature of large King organs, this would have been a trophy demonstration installation for Elmira's home-town organ company. -Scot Huntington
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