ca. late 1800's - Church exterior; facade (Church website/Jim Stettner)
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2025-03-02 - This netry represents the rebuilding of an existing instrument. Identified through online information from Andrew Henderson (March 2, 20250: From The Daily Palladium (Oswego, NY, May 2, 1893): "The long expected improvement to the organ of St. Paul's Church is now, we learn, likely to made at a very early date. Within the next four or five weeks the works for this will have arrived, and St. Paul's organ will then be not only one of the few large organs of the country, but also one of the most modern and complete. Organ building has been revolutionized within the past ten years, so that it would hardly be more accurate to compare the large, modern and complete organ of to-day to that of a few years ago than to compare the present large organ of St. Paul's to a large melodeon. St. Paul's organ will be virtually a new one, for instead of tracker action, electric action will be substituted, and instead of the old style of wind chest a new and wonderful improvement will be introduced and mechanism for combination purposes, that for utility and marvellousness of effect will be employed that will place the organ beyond the wildest dreams of the past. St. Paul's organ is promised exceptional advantages. It is to have the benefit of the systems and inventions of the two greatest organ manufacturers of America. Roosvelt [sic], of New York, and Farrand & Votey, of Detroit. Farrand & Votey having purchased at a great outlay the plant, patents and entire works of Roosevelt, stands to-day, whether for skill, enterprise, or extensiveness, unrivaled, not only in America, but perhaps in the world. The immense organ this firm has just about completed for the World's Fair will prove, no doubt, one of the biggest wonders of the fair. St. Paul's organ is promised every advantage this firm can supply, excepting size, but its size may be judged from the fact that the present organ has fifty-one stops: the new one will have more than eighty. Additional stops will be put in the pedal, great and swell organs, and an echo organ will be super-added. Oswego will thus have then one of the most powerful, complete and beautiful organs of the country. Effort is being made to have the greatest organist of the world, Saint Saen [sic], of Paris, give a recital on it this summer. He is expected at Chicago, after which he will make the tour of the country, and it is hoped he can be induced to visit Oswego, now that we shall have an instrument equal to the expectations and exactions of the most accomplished musician." -Andrew Henderson
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