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Appleton & Warren (1847)

First Unitarian Church [originally First Independent Church]: Sanctuary; rear gallery
10 W Franklin Street
Baltimore, MD

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


Notes

2021-08-13 - Identified from notes on a related OHS Database entry. -- When the church was built in 1818, it was fitted with a Thomas Hall, Philadelphia, of three manuals, 22 stops, and Pedal Bass (no pipes-later altered-from Great Double), 1400 pipes (number given in proposal-but actually somewhat more) In a rear gallery-case in Lyre form by Maximilien Godefroy, architect of church. An apparent fire ca. 1847 seems to have damaged or destroyed the Hall, which was replaced in a newly rebuilt gallery in 1847 by a three-manual, 37-stop Appleton and Warren. This was later replaced inthe newly reconstructed interior of church by an 1893 Henry Niemann two manual, 25-rank organ (with Barker Lever) given by Baltimore philanthropist Enoch Pratt. It is still in regular use (with three additions using Niemann pipes). -Jim Stettner


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