Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2023-08-29 - This entry represents the installation of a new organ. Identified from a related OHS Database entry. The building was acquired used, and was originally built as the Free Street Theatre. 1. Originally, here. 2. 1872, to the Baptist Church, Buxton, ME. by Hook. 3. 1961, removed by Peter Perkins for his Portland, ME. residence. 4. 19??, to Fisk for refurbishing; then to Our Lady of Good Voyage Roman Catholic Church in Gloucester, ME. 5. 19??, to Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. -Jim Stettner
2023-08-29 - From The Semi-Centennial Anniversary of the Free Street Baptist Church Portland Maine, pg. 79: *"The first mention we find upon the records in reference to an organ is in the estimate of expenditures at the annual meeting, October 21, 1845. Up to this time a parlor organ had been hired of Mr. William lieekett. The estimate was as follows : —* "*Organ, 100;" "playing organ," "blowing organ, 3;" "singing, 85." Previous to this the estimates for music had varied from three hundred and fifty dollars in 1836, to one hundred in 1811, the average being one hundred and sixty-five.* -Jim Stettner
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