Unknown - Church Interior, Rood Screen, Chancel, Altar, and Organ Case (Vintage Postcard, courtesy of T. Bradford Willis, DDS (1907)/Database Manager)
2004-10-30 - The original builder was Jesse Woodberry (1905, Opus200). -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1983 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Moved to rear gallery and enlarged. Compass 61/30. -Database Manager
2023-08-29 - The organ is not playable. Case, pipework, action, and console appear to be present; but the instrument failed quite a few years ago. It was supplanted by a Johannus Sweelinck 30 three manual electronic organ with an American Classic specification, placed at the front of the sancturary with divisional speakers, generally, it is understated for the space. -John Hoge
Typed stoplist from the OHS PC Database. Source: Source not recorded Date not recorded
Holy Cross Episcopal, Kingston, NY 1905 Jesse Woodberry Op. 200/1960's Sidney Chase (Stoplist: Daniel A. Rossi 1999 from Whistlebox 11:9) Great: 8' Prinzipal* 8' Bordun* 8' Dolce ** 4' Oktave 2 2/3' Nasat ** 2' Super Oktave ** 1 1/3' Mixture IV Swell: 8' Violin Diapason 8' Stopped Diapason 8' Aeoline 8' Voix Celeste (TC) 4' Flute Harmonique 8' Oboe Tremolo Pedal: 16' Bourdon Mechanical Swell to Great Swell to Pedal Great to Pedal Compass : 61/30 2 unlabelled combination pistons * old bass octaves ** mostly old pipework The Swell is original, but the Great has been altered as indicated. Borings in the Swell keys and an extra hole the Great stop jam indicates that there was a Swell to Great 4' coupler originally. Both manual divisions are immediately behind the front, with the Swell to the left. Manual action is by squares and splayed trackers to the rear of the manual chests. The Swell chest is chromatic and the Great is an N chest with the bass octaves divided. The base octave of the Swell stopped diapason is an offset tubular pneumatic chest mounted on the right wall of the Swell box. The Pedal stop is behind the manual chests. The organ is currently blown by a Meiniger blower located inside the case. However, the feeders and blowing handle are still in place. In a pinch, the organ could be hand-blown. In the early 1900's the Church of the Holy Cross was enlarged and the chancel area was remodeled. As part of the renovations Jesse Woodberry's Opus 200, a tracker-action organ of two manuals and 14 ranks was delivered in 1905 and installed in the chancel in approximately the position as the earlier organ.
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