Better Pipe Organ Database

Andover Organ Co. Opus 73 (1973)

St. Mark's Episcopal Church
9 Summer Street
Augusta, ME

Images

2013-10-11 - Church exterior (Photograph by Wikipedia, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

2018-06-22 - Church interior (Photograph by Joe Phelan, via centralmaine.com, submitted by Jeff Scofield/Jeff Scofield)

Consoles

Main

Organ type: Traditional With Roll Top
Console position: Detached, Reversed Keydesk (Mechanical Action)
2 manuals
21 stops
21 registers
3 divisions
Key action Type: Mechanical (Details Unknown)
Stop action Type: Electrical
Stop layout Type: Drawknobs in Horizontal Rows on Terraced/Stepped Jambs
Manual compass: 56 notes
Pedal compass: 32 notes
Pedal Type: Concave Radiating (Meeting AGO Standards)
Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Meeting AGO Standards)
Combination action: Adjustable Combination Pistons
Has combination thumb pistons
Has combination toe pistons
Has coupler thumb pistons
Has coupler toe pistons
Has tutti thumb pistons
Has tutti toe pistons

Notes

2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1974 -Database Manager

2007-09-26 - Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Organ recessed into a chamber on the right side of the sanctuary (chancel). Swell at floor level behind carved grille in lower case. Great trackers pass between grille and shutters. Great above Swell. Facade is 5-sectional containing 33 pipes arranged: 3-11-5-11-3. -Database Manager

2022-01-29 - The congregation held its last service at the end of 2014. The remaining congregation merged with Prince of Peace Lutheran Church to form Emmanuel Lutheran Episcopal Church. The building was sold to a developer who wanted to convert the building to residential and meeting space use; the organ remained behind. -Jeff Scofield

Stoplist

Source: From THE DIAPASON January 1975

    Augusta, Maine
    St. Mark's Episcopal Church

    Andover   Op. 73   1973   2/29
    ________________________________________

    GREAT                     SWELL
 8' Principal     56       8' Gedeckt     56
 8' Bourdon       56       8' Viola       56
 4' Octave        56       8' Celeste     56
 2' Fifteenth     56       4' Spitzfloete 56
IV  Mixture      224   2 2/3' Nazard      56
 8' Trumpet       56       2' Principal   56
                       1 3/5' Tierce      56
    PEDAL                III  Scharff    168
16' Subbass       32       8' Krummhorn   56
 8' Principalbass 32          Tremulant
 4' Choralbass    32
IV  Mixture      128
16' Posaune       32

[Received from Jeff Scofield January 28, 2022]

Websites

St. Mark's Church (DEAD LINK) - Stoplist (Check Internet Archive, archive.is)