St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church
19 Winter Street
Milford, MA
OHS convention: 1983
Images
2023-10-31 - Organ in the rear gallery (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St. Denis)
2023-10-31 - Right stopjamb with Andover Organ Co. nameplate (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St. Denis)
2023-10-31 - Left stopjamb with Steer & Turner nameplate (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St. Denis)
2023-10-31 - Attached keydesk and stops (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St. Denis)
2023-10-31 - Organ façade (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St. Denis)
2023-10-31 - Church interior from the rear gallery (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen A St. Denis)
2023-10-31 - Church exterior. (Photograph by Stephen St. Denis/Stephen St. Denis)
2017-12-14 - Gallery and Organ Case (Photograph by Jonathan Capece/Database Manager)
2005-11-20 - Gallery and Organ Case (Photograph by Robert Wiliam Blake, Sr./Database Manager)
Consoles
Main
- Console position: Keydesk Attached, Manuals Set Into Case
- 2 manuals
- Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
- Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Details Unknown)
- Combination action: Fixed Mechanical
Notes
2004-10-30 - The original builder was Steere & Turner (1873, Opus71). -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1982. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Relocated through OCH from Bob Guenther residence, Kingston, NY. [This opus also on this list at the Methodist Church in Overlook, NY.] -Database Manager
2007-03-14 - Updated through online information from Lisa Lucius. -Database Manager
2012-04-29 - Updated through online information from John Igoe. -- A video on the MilfordPatch web site includes references to repairs needed to the bellows. -Database Manager
2012-05-01 - Updated through online information from Kyle Bertulli. -Database Manager
2023-11-08 - - From The Organ Historical Society, Inc. “Organ Handbook 1983” for the 28th National Convention of the OHS (Worcester, MA) Page 118-119
“This elegant organ was built for the South Congregational Church, Pittsfield, Mass., at a cost of $3,500. In 1919, it was moved by Hook & Hastings (second-hand #333), to Bogle Street Christian Church, Fall River, Mass. After that church closed, the organ was dismantled in August 1973 by a crew headed by Alan Laufman, and stored in the Kingston, New York, residence of Robert Guenther, who had purchased the instrument with the intention of presenting it to the Overlook United Methodist Church in Woodstock, New York. To that end, Mr. Guenther had some preliminary rebuilding work on the organ performed by Stewart Organ Co. Inexplicably, the church declined the gift, so the organ was once again offered for sale through the Organ Clearing House, eventually purchased by St. Mary’s Church, and rebuilt by the Andover Organ Co. The original stoplist of the organ may be found in the Boston Organ Club Newsletter, No. 89, August – September 1973.
The first organ in St. Mary of the Assumption Church was a three-manual instrument built in 1822 by Thomas Elliott of London, England, for the Old South Church, Washington Street, Boston. When that meetinghouse closed in 1875, the organ (which had been rebuilt by E.&G.G. Hook, opus 246, 1859) was moved to the new St. Mary’s church, the original case augmented with Gothic ornamentation. In 1910, Hook & Hastings rebuilt the organ once again, Opus 2253, replacing the mechanical action but retaining the slider chests and most of the pipe work. It survived in that form until 1959, at which time it was removed in favor of an electronic substitute. “
- Currently the organ is not in use. The Parish web site lists 2 organs as part of the parish, the Steere & Turner instrument in the rear gallery along with the Rodgers Infinity 361 installed in 2019 at the front of the church. The web site indicates the Steere & Turner tracker as “currently out of commission”.
-Stephen St. Denis
Stoplist
Frequest guest organist Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Great
Bourdon 16
Open Diapason 8
Hohlflote 8
Octave 4
Chimney Flute 4
Twelfth 2 2/3
Fifteenth 2
Mixture III-IV
Trumpet 8
Swell
Stopped Diapason 8
Salicional 8
Celeste 8
Principal 4 (prepared...never installed)
Harmonic Flute 4
Flautino 2
Sesquialtera II
Cymbal II-III
Bassoon 16 (prepared...never installed)
Oboe 8
Pedal
Open Diapason 16
Bourdon 16
Principal 8
Choral Bass 4
Trombone 16
[Received from Kyle Bertulli 2014-04-07.]
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