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C. S. Haskell [Haskell Pipe Organ Manufacturing Co.] (1896ca.)

Third Presbyterian Church
420 9th Street
Chester, PA

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


Images


2018 - Organ grill, pipes visible through grill openings (Photograph from an archival source: Abandoned America, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

2018 - Exterior in 2018 (Photograph from an archival source: Abandoned America, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

May 2020 - The remains after the devastating fire, May 2020 (Photograph from an archival source: Abandoned America, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

2018 - The gorgeous interior of abandoned Third Presbyterian Church in Chester, PA (Photograph from an archival source: Abandoned America, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

pre-1923 - Pre-1923 postcard, exterior of 1896 building (Photograph from an archival source: Old Chester PA website, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)

Notes

2021-11-15 - Built by Charles S. Haskell, and appeared in the January, 1909 Diapason list published by the firm. Opening services were held on May 17, 1896, so the organ is very likely to have been built c. 1896. The church burned in a five-alarm fire on May 28, 2020. -Paul R. Marchesano


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