2022-07-27 - from Evening Star March 5, 1878- Organ weighs 4 tons 2 manual 20 stops 5 combination pedals 20' tall x 15' wide x 10' deep walnut case gilt facade 2 octave of pedals The building was erected 1868. No information has been found concerning an older organ. In 1959, the building was demolished, said to be in unsafe condition, and a new modernistic builting built on the same site. The new building did not recieve a pipe organ, and still uses an electronic substitute. Niemann shows up in Baltimore a couple months after the death of Pomplitz, in 1874. His earliest sightings are with some repairs to organs, and the first new instrument 1875, was for a Baltimore church. Though is organs were well recieved, this installation was the first and to date the only organ that has been documented for a Washington church. A later (c1902) Niemann organ is located at Holy Name RC church, but that went in used, after a 1929 fire. -Steven Bartley
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