1955 - Exterior of Foss Street Methodist Church with truncated steeple, circa 1955 (Photograph from an archival source: McArthur Library Local History Catalog, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
OHS convention: 1963
Note: Not extant. Not playable. (in this location)
2004-10-30 - The original builder was E. & G. G. Hook (c. 1865). -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Attribution of original as c. 1865 Hook is probably in 1963 convention booklet. -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - A 2m., 1852 E. L. Holbrook organ was moved from this church in 1942 to the Methodist Church in Orrington, ME according to OH 1981:85. From the photograph, it appeared to be in the front center of the church. Where was the above instrument then? -Database Manager
2008-02-02 - Opus 326 installed in Pine Street COngragational, Lewiston, Maine 1866; rebuilt and electrified by Hook-Hastings, 1923. Relocated here by unidentified builder ca. 1940. Church closed in 1999, and organ placed in storage. Pipes used by Quimby in new organ, St. John's Episcopal, Quincy, Illinois, 2006. -Database Manager
2008-02-02 - Opus 326 installed in Pine Street COngragational, Lewiston, Maine 1866; rebuilt and electrified by Hook-Hastings, 1923. Relocated here by unidentified builder ca. 1940. Church closed in 1999, and organ placed in storage. Pipes used by Quimby in new organ, St. John's Episcopal, Quincy, Illinois, 2006. -Database Manager
2022-11-03 - Building is today occupied by Anchor Baptist Church. From teh *1963 OHS Handbook*: The organ is equipped with an impressive array of toe studs, pistons, and couplers too numerous for listing here. They are, for the most part, standard. -Paul R. Marchesano
Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Foss Street Methodist, Biddeford, ME c. 1865 Hook/c. 1900 Hook & Hastings (Stoplist: OH 1963:16) Great (61 notes) 8' Open Diapason 8' Viola da Gamba 8' Clarabella 4' Octave 2 2\3' Twelfth 2' Fifteenth IV Mixture 8' Trumpet Swell (61 notes) 16' Bourdon Treble 16' Bourdon Bass 8' Open Diapason 8' St. Diapason Treble 8' St. Diapason Bass 8' Salicional 8' Aeoline 4' Flute Harmonique III Mixture 8' Oboe 8' Cornopean Tremolo Choir (61 notes) 8' Melodia 8' Dulciana 8' Unda Maris 4' Flute d'Amour 8' Clarinet Tremolo Pedal (30 notes) 16' Open diapason 16' Violoncello (8' in 1963) 16' Dulciana Great Mixture: 15-19-22-26, breaking at every C Swell Mixture: 15-19-22, breaks at c1 and c3.
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