2004-10-30 - The original builder was E. & G. G. Hook (1857, Opus215). -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Provided withmodern console. Rebuilt by Berkshire Organ Co. 1970 on electric Slider chests, behind Hook Case. -Database Manager
2021-05-04 - This organ was not a Hook. Johnson & Sons replaced the Hook with a totally new organ in 1891, Op. 765, retaining only the Hook case, moved to the front of the church and widened by Johnson. What became of the Hook is unknown. The Hall Organ Co. electrified the organ and installed a new Spencer blower in 1927-28, but without any other changes. The Johnson was sold to St. John's Episcopal in Niantic, Conn. when the church bought a new 3-manual Berkshire, reusing only the historic Hook case. The Johnson was moved to Niantic by Alan McNeely where it was installed without a case or renovation. The organ deteriorated to the point it was thoroughly unreliable and in 1983 the church commissioned a new C.B. Fisk organ. The Johnson was parted out in 1984 and replaced by the Fisk loaner organ, a two-manual Hinners, itself relocated when the Fisk was installed in 1988. It is not known if Johnson replaced the Hook facade pipes lowered in pitch, or replaced them with new. The old facade pipes were reused by Berkshire, but when consultant E.A. Kelley convinced the church they were too large in scale, he replaced them in 1980 with new, narrower-scaled zinc pipes. The church originally known as the Broadway Congregational Church merged with Second Congregational in 1918 and was renamed United Congregational. -Scot Huntington
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