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

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

Notes

2021-12-01 - Built by Charles S. Haskell, and appeared on an opus list published by the firm in *The Diapason*, January, 1909. Most likely a rebuild of teh 1854 Standbridge organ. The church later dropped "West" from its name as the city grew westward. -Paul R. Marchesano

Documents

• (1896-11-14) Organ Recital and Concert Philadelphia Inquirer item announcing a concert inaugurating the new West Arch Street Presbyterian organ on 11/17/1896. -Craig A. Otto

Websites

• Philadelphia Inquirer article via newspapers.com - Stanley Addicks and Laura Wood Grebe played the dedicatory recital of this instrument 17 November 1896 as this ad for the concert attests (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

• #57373* - John C. B. Standbridge (1854)

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