2013-09-18 - Freestanding organ case (Photograph by Bruce Brewer, submitted by Paul R. Marchesano/Paul R. Marchesano)
2004-10-30 - Status Note: There 1999 -Database Manager
2004-10-30 - Formerly at St. Mary's R. C., Rockville, MD. -Database Manager
2005-07-24 - On-line update from Bruce D. Brewer -- The instrument has 2 1/2 ranks of pipes, the chimney flute and the Dulciana share a common bass, and the 4' Principal is full compass. The organ retains the original foot-pumped winding system. -Database Manager
2005-07-24 - From Bruce D. Brewer: 56 notes. -Database Manager
2023-06-05 - Information from Bruce Brewer, Application for Historic Organ Certification: Historical profile of the organ: * Fabricated in Baltimore MD in the Eutaw Street factory in 1850. * Installed, and dedicated in St. Mary’s Roman Catholic church in Rockville Maryland, 1853. * Undetermined time, became the property of P.H. Frohman, and was in storage in the crypts of Washington Cathedral. (Frohman was primary architect of the Washington Cathedral from 1921 until his death in 1972. * Brewer purchases the organ on 07/09/78, and installs the playing organ in his home in Rockville Md. That same year. * December 1989, Organ is relocated to current residence in Baltimore Maryland. * This instrument has been the venue of several “Organ Crawls” by the Organ Historical Society, and both the Local and National Chapters of the American Guild of Organists in Mr. Brewers Rockville and Baltimore Maryland homes. -Paul R. Marchesano
Source: Bruce Brewer, Application for Historic Organ Citation
Manual (56 notes) Stop’t Diapason Treble 8 (Left stop jamb, 29-56, lead chimney flute with tuning on the ears), Stop’t Diapason Bass 8 (Left jamb, 1-28, wood), Dulciana 8 (Right stop jamb, 29-56, metal (shares Stop't Diapason Bass)), Principle [sic] [4] (Right stop jamb, 56 pipes, metal)
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