Holy Family [Polish] Catholic Church
250 44th Street
Lawrenceville
Pittsburgh, PA
Note: Not playable. (in this location)
Images
2021 - Interior of closed church looking to Organ gallery with twin façades. (Still image from YouTube video/Scanlon Andrew)
2021 - Interior to rear (Still image from YouTube video/Scanlon Andrew)
2021 - Close-up of façade pipes (Still image from YouTube video/Scanlon Andrew)
2021 - Console (Still image from YouTube video/Scanlon Andrew)
2021 - Console (Still image from YouTube video/Scanlon Andrew)
2021 - Console nameplate "Console by Tellers Organ Co" (Still image from YouTube video/Scanlon Andrew)
2021 - Interior to front (Still image from YouTube video/Andrew Scanlon)
1950s - Historic image of interior (Diocese of Pittsburgh/Scanlon Andrew)
2021 - Church exterior (Diocese of Pittsburgh/Scanlon Andrew)
1939 - Architectural rendering (Diocese of Pittsburgh/Scanlon Andrew)
Notes
2024-10-03 - Local organist and OHS member JR Daniels was Organist at neighboring parish for many years and knows this church. He reports the following:
"I played many times at holy family. The organ was a Möller theater organ that came out of one of the theaters in East liberty. It was two manuals about eight ranks.
The original church which is in lower Lawrenceville, was on the top floor of the school building. The building is still standing and has been restored. It originally had a secondhand two manual Jardine tracker."
-Scanlon Andrew
2024-10-03 - at some point a 3-manual Tellers/ Organ Supply console was installed but the bottom manual did not work according to JR Daniels. It was two manuals and highly unified.
Church closed in 2008 and has been under threat of demolition off and on since then. Pictures indicate the interior is heavily vandalized etc.
-Scanlon Andrew
2024-10-03 - The Moller was potentially from the Cameraphone Theatre in East Liberty, built 1913 and "modernized" 1941, around the time this church was built. Also the theatre lists having 2 Moller organs, in 1913 and then in 1915. -Paul R. Marchesano
Documents
Websites
Other Links
Regrettably, it is not possible to display the information about the sponsor of this pipeorgandatabase entry or if there is a sponsor. Please see About Sponsors on Pipe Organ Database.