St. Luke's Mission Chapel
(Episcopal)

28 Edgecombe Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10030


In 1922, St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church, which in 1892 had relocated to 435 West 141st Street from its Hudson Street location in Greenwich Village, established the St. Luke's Episcopal Mission for Negroes. A chapel seating 300 was created in an old row house at 28 Edgecombe Avenue, near 136th Street. By the 1920s, African-Americans were moving into Harlem, and the mission was probably an effort to keep African-Americans segregated from the regular parish. The church is now home to New Hope Seventh-day Adventist Church.
 
Hillgreen, Lane & Co.
Alliance, Ohio (1930)
Electro-pneumatic action
2 manuals, 25 stops, 6 ranks


The Factory Specification (Aug. 18, 1930) shows that Hillgreen, Lane & Company, of Alliance, Ohio, would build a two-manual organ for St. Luke's Mission for a consideration of $4,000. All of the pipes were enclosed in one expression box, and the console was detached.

The 2009 status of this organ is unknown.
               
Great Organ (Manual I) – 61 notes, enclosed
16
  Sub Flute [unit]
97
4
  Flute
—
8
  Diapason
73
2 2/3
  Dolce Quint
SW
8
  Melodia
—
2
   Flautino
—
8
  Dulciana
SW
 
   
       
 
     
Swell Organ (Manual II) – 61 notes, enclosed
16
  Contra Dolce [unit]
97
2 2/3
  Quint Flute
—
8
  Salicional
73
2
  Super Dolce
—
8
  Vox Celeste [TC]
61
  Dolce Mixture III
derived
8
   Dolce
—
8
   Schalmei [Synth.]
—
8
  Flute
GT
8
  
Cornopean
73
4
   Octave Flute
GT
    
* 8' Salicional + 2-2/3' Quint Flute
4
   Dolcette
—
      
               
Pedal Organ – 32 notes
16
   Bourdon
—
8
   Octave Dolce
—
16
  Dolce Bass
—
4
   Octave Flute
—
8
  Flute
—
       
             
Couplers
    Great to Pedal 8'   Great 16', 4', Unison Cancel
    Swell to Pedal 8', 4'   Swell 16', 4', Unison Cancel
    Swell to Great 16', 8', 4'   Coupler Cancel
    Great to Swell 8'    
               
Combinations (adjustable at console, visibly operating registers)
   
Swell Organ Pistons 1-2-3-4-5
Great Organ Pistons 1-2-3-4
Pedal Organ Pistons 1-2-3
Entire Organ Pistons 1-2-3-4-5
               
Accessories
    Tremolo      
    Wind Indicator by light      
    Crescendo Indicator by light        
             
Pedal Movements
    Great to Pedal Reversible      
    Swell expression      
    Crescendo and Full Organ      
           
Sources:
     The American Organist (1922). Courtesy Jonathan Bowen.
     Gray, Christopher. "Streetscapes/141st Street and Convent Avenue; 1892 Church for a Congregation That Moved Uptown," The New York Times (Oct. 20, 2002).
     Trupiano, Larry. Factory Specifications of Hillgreen, Lane & Company Organ (1930).