Better Pipe Organ Database

Woodberry & Harris (1890ca.)

St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
Lynn, MA

Images

2023 - Church exterior (Photograph by Parish Faceook page, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

Before 2023 - Church interior (Photograph from an archival source: CSI Lynn Facebook, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2023 - Organ in rear gallery (Photograph from an archival source: CSI Lynn Facebook, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2023 - Nave (Photograph from an archival source: CSI Lynn Facebook, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

2022 - Organ in rear gallery (Photograph from an archival source: CSI Lynn Facebook, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

1915 ca - Church exterior (Photograph by CSI Lynn Facebook, historic postcard, submitted by Andrew Scanlon/Andrew Scanlon)

Consoles

Main

3 manuals
32 stops
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)

Notes

2004-10-30 - The original builder was E. & G. G. Hook (1844, Opus61). -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1979 -Database Manager

2004-10-30 - From Franklin St. R. C. (old cathedral), Boston, MA. Rebuilt for this church by Woodberry & Harris c. 1890 retaining much of the original pipework. . Detached console. Rear gallery. Survived a c. 1965 fire. Some restoration done by Joseph Deptula, Thomas Anderson and John Henricksen c. 1979. -Database Manager

Stoplist

stoplist compiled from drawknob layout by Fr. D. Gallagher, res. organist in mid 1978 Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded

Lynn, Mass
St. Joseph's R.C. Ch.
Hook/Woodberry & Harris

Pedal

Open                  16'
Bourdon               16'


Swell

Bourdon               16'
Open                   8'
Stopped Diapason       8'
 (chimney trebles)
Dulciana               8'
Octave                 4'
Cornet III
 (2 rks Grave Mixture)
Trumpet                8'
Oboe                   8'


Great

Open                  16'
   (ten c up)
Open                   8'
Clarabella             8'
  (mid c up)
Stopped Bass           8'
  (2 octaves)
Stopped Treble         8'
  (mid c up- chimney)
Octave                 4'
Octave Quint       2 2/3'
Super Octave           2'
Mixture V (dble. tierce)
Trumpet                8'


Choir

Open Diapason          8'
Stopped Bass           8'
Stopped Diapason       8'
  (ten. f up)
Melodia                8'
Dulciana               8'
Octave                 4'
Flute (chimney)        4'
Clarinet (ten. f up)   8'



Tremolo
Blower Signal

 [Received from don belben 2013-01-23.]

Related Pipe Organ Database Entries

#9733†* - E. & G. G. Hook Opus 61 (1844)