Burd Orphan Asylum: Chapel
63rd & Market Streets
Philadelphia, PA
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
Images
1862 - Exterior view of the orphanage (constructed 1861-1863). Published in George Smith's History of Delaware County (Philadelphia: Henry B. Ashmead) (Photograph from an archival source: Tholey, Charles P., d. 1898 artist, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
Unknown - Building exterior (Photograph from an archival source: Castner Scrapbook Collection, Free Library of Philadelphia, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
Unknown - From the Vestry minutes of St Stephens (Photograph from an archival source: Suzanne Glover Lindsay via ORGAN ID 67500, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
Notes
2022-11-07 - The Hall & Erben’s voice filled St. Stephen’s until 1864, when it was transferred to the chapel of an ambitious new project for the church, the Burd Orphan Asylum just built in West Philadelphia. It is not clear what happened to this inaugural pipe organ when the institution moved to 4226 Baltimore Avenue in the 1920s and the original property sold (it is now defunct). -- "Exploring St. Stephen's Musical Voice: Its Pipe Organs through Time," web page, St Stephens Epsicopal Church, Suzanne Glover Lindsay, September 19, 2019 -Paul R. Marchesano
2022-11-07 - Photograph shows the gothic inspired building which housed the orphanage for girls founded by Elizabeth H. Burd in 1856. Located near Cobbs Creek in Delaware County, the building opened in 1863 under the management of St. Stephen's Protestant Episcopal Church. It was torn down in the 1930s. -Paul R. Marchesano
Stoplist
Source: Transcribed from the image of the Vestry minutes of the period attached under "images" Originally published 1825
GREAT ORGAN (9 Stops) Open Diapason (58 pipes), Stopped Diapason (58 pipes), Stopped Diapason (58 pipes [sic]), Principal (58 pipes), Twelfth (58 pipes), Fifteenth (58 pipes), Sesquialtera 3 ranks (84 pipes), Cornet 4 ranks (120 pipes), Trumpet (58 pipes), (610 pipes)
CHOIR ORGAN (5 stops) Dulciana (58 pipes), Stopped Diapason (58 pipes), Night Horn (58 pipes), Flute (58 pipes), Principal (58 pipes), (290 pipes)
SWELL (7 stops) Open Diapason (37 pipes), Stopped Diapason (37 pipes), Viola da Gamba (37 pipes), Principal (37 pipes), Fifteenth (37 pipes), Hautboy (37 pipes), Tremulant, (222 pipes)
PEDAL (2 stops (CC, 16 ft. to G, first line)) Double Open Diapason (20 pipes), Octave (20 pipes), (40 pipes), (1162 pipes)
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