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John C. B. Standbridge Opus 1 (1840)

First Unitarian Church
10th and Locust Streets
Philadelphia, PA

Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)


Images


1861 - Interior view of the east end of church from center aisle showing the altar decorated with garlands, a wreath, and vases of flowers. (Photograph from an archival source: Library Company of Philadelphia, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

Notes

2021-02-22 - From an article by Eugene McCracken, *The Tracker,* Vol. 3, No. 4, July 1959: "During the year 1840, with the help of William Farley and a Mr. Jones, he built his first organ, containing four or five ranks of pipes. It was placed in Mr. Furnace's church (Unitarian) at 8th and Locust Streets [sic: the church was located at 10th and Locust Sts, designed by William Strickland and built in 1828], and probably replaced or augmented the Corrie organ of 1831. This organ must have been a success, for later, during the 1850's, he built another organ for this church, whose only available description is that it was the "most magnificent in the United States." " -Paul R. Marchesano

2021-02-22 - Building was designed by Philadelphia architect William Strickland, the church was built in 1828 and demolished in 1885. -Paul R. Marchesano


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