ca. 1870 - Church exterior shortly after completion (Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)/Jim Stettner)
after 1870 - Church exterior (Vintage postcard/Jim Stettner)
1897 - Sanctuary interior with organ case in front (Church archival photo/Jim Stettner)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2024-09-05 - Identified from the following sources: "A New Organ" ("Local News" column), Lawrence (KS) Republican Daily Journal, Sunday morning, April 10, 1870, [3], Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/59539563. (See under "Documents.") "The Great Organ," Kansas Daily Tribune (Lawrence), Saturday, April 23, 1870, [3], Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/61054428. (See under "Documents." In the stoplist, "58 pipes" for the "Mixture, 3 ranks" on the Great must be an error for "174 pipes.") Scot L. Huntington, Barbara Owen, Stephen L. Pinel, and Martin R. Walsh, Johnson Organs, 1844–1898: Wm. A. Johnson, Johnson Organ Co., Johnson & Son: A Documentary Issued in Honor of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of His Birth, 1816–2016 (Cranbury, NJ: The Princeton Academy of the Arts, Culture, and Society, 2015), 81: Opus number: 316; location: Congregational Church, Lawrence, Kan.; number of manuals: 2; number of registers, 25. "Cost $4,000. Replaced by a 3-38, Reuter Organ Co., Op. 79, 1922 instrument, and subsequently by another Reuter, Op. 1722, in 1970. Some parts of the Johnson case (designed by the church architect, John Haskell), were reused in the 1922 instrument, and reworked for the later organ. A fire in the 1950s seems to have necessitated a new console, reused in the 1970 instrument." -Charles Eberline
Source: Newspapers.com: The Daily Kansas Tribune (Lawrence, Kansas) · Sat, Apr 23, 1870 · Page 3
Great 8 ft. Open Diapason, 8 ft. Melodia, 8 ft. Dulciana, 4 ft. Octave, 4 ft. Flute d'Amour, 2 2/3 ft. Twelfth, 2 ft. Fifteenth, 3 Rks Mixture, 8 ft. Trumpet, 8 ft. Clarionet [tc]
Swell 8 ft. Stopped Diapason, 8 ft. Open Diapason, 8 ft. Salicional, 4 ft. Fugara, 4 ft. Flute Harmonique, 2 ft. Flantino [sic], Tremblant [sic], 8 ft. Oboe & Bassoon Bass
Pedal 16 ft. Double Open Diapason, 16 ft. Bourdon
Pedal Movements Swell Expression [ratchet-type] (Ratchet-type)
Composition Foot Trundles Great Piano (Single acting), Great Forte (Single acting)
Swell to Pedal 8 (Swell to Pedal) (Drawknob over keys), Great to Pedal 8 (Great to Pedal) (Drawknob over keys), Swell to Great 8 (Swell to Great) (Drawknob over keys)
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