St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church [later Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish]: Sanctuary, Rear Gallery
128 Ames Street
Lawrence, MA
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
2022-07-08 - Exterior side (Photograph by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
ca. 1970s - Exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Lawrence Public Library Special Collections, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
ca. 2010s - Exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Lawrence Public Library Special Collections, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
1940s - Interior before Vatican II (Photograph from an archival source: Lawrence Public Library Special Collections , submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
1970s - Organ in rear gallery (Photograph from an archival source: Lawrence Public Library Special Collections, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)
Notes
2022-06-30 - Existed in rear gallery until mid 2000s when local lore has it that the clergy literally threw it in the dumpster because it was blocking a window. I played the organ in the late 1990s and it was completely functional but it was almost never used as a 2m Rodgers was on the floor in the front. Many were horrified to learn its fate as it would have fit under a 10' ceiling, maybe even under an 8' ceiling and would easily have been relocated. -Andrew Scanlon
2022-06-30 - From *Organs of Greater Lawrence* by Robert J. Reich
Church Organized 1878; 1st bldg. 1878, Water and Doyle Sts.; 2nd bldg. 1922, Ames St., Lawrence combined 2006 with St. Theresa’s in Methuen, both buildings now in use
* 1st organ; unknown
* 2nd organ: Austin 1920's 2m 5r unit, installed by W. W. Laws, 2nd hand from the Star Theatre, Lawrence; replaced by electronic c1975. -Andrew Scanlon
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