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United Lutheran Church House
39 East 35th Street at Madison Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10016
From 1944 until 1988, the United Lutheran Church House was located in a former residence on the southeast corner of Madison Avenue and 35th Street. The brownstone Renaissance Revival town house was built in 1852 for Anson Phelps Stokes (1838-1913), who was a merchant, banker, publicist, and multimillionaire. Noted for its graceful balconies and wrought iron grillwork, the Stokes mansion had 45 rooms, 22 fireplaces and a dozen baths. In 1904, the mansion was purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan for his son, J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr.
The Lutheran Church bought the building for $265,000 in 1944. It was used as headquarters for several Lutheran groups, including the American section of the Lutheran World Convention, the National Lutheran Council, and the United Lutheran Synod of New York. In latter years, the building housed the world headquarters for the Lutheran Church in America. What was originally the private library was transformed into a chapel that contained an Italian marble altar and an organ. In 1988, the Lutherans consolidated and formed the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, after which they moved their headquarters to Chicago. The mansion was then purchased for $15 million by the Pierpont Morgan Library, located just to the south, and plans were drawn by Voorsanger & Mills Associates to adapt the mansion to the library's needs. |
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M.P. Möller, Inc.
Hagerstown, Md. – Opus 7119 (1944)
Electro-pneumatic action
2 manuals, 19 stops, 4 ranks
In the chapel of the United Lutheran Church House was a small unit organ built in 1944 by M.P. Möller of Hagerstown, Md. A detached two-manual stop-key console controlled the four ranks, all of which were enclosed in one expression chamber and voiced on 5" wind pressure. It is not known what became of this organ. |
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Great Organ (Manual I) – 61 notes, enclosed
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Principal |
73 |
4 |
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Flute |
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8 |
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Rohrfloete |
85 |
4 |
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Viole |
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8 |
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Viole Dolce |
85 |
2 |
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Fifteenth |
— |
4 |
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Prestant |
— |
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Swell Organ (Manual II) – 61 notes, enclosed
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Rohrfloete |
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2 |
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Piccolo |
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8 |
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Viole Dolce |
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8 |
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Fagotto [TC] |
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4 |
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Flute |
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4 |
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Clarion |
61 |
4 |
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Viole |
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Tremulant |
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2 2/3 |
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Nazard |
— |
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Pedal Organ – 32 notes
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Bourdon [ext. Rohrfloete] |
12 |
8 |
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Viole |
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8 |
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Principal |
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Flute |
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Couplers
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Swell to Great |
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Swell to Pedal |
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Adjustable Combinations
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Pistons 1-2-3-4 affecting Full Organ |
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Pedal Movements
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Balanced Expression Pedal |
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Great to Pedal Reversible |
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Balanced Crescendo Pedal |
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Accessories
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Crescendo Indicator |
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Generator Indicator |
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Sources:
"Lutherans Dedicate Church House Here," The New York Times (Sep. 23, 1944).
"Morgan Library, in an Expansion, Is Buying a Neighboring Mansion," The New York Times (Apr. 20, 1988).
"Morgan Library Plans a Makeover and an Image Upgrade," The New York Times (Apr. 26, 2005).
Trupiano, Larry. Factory Specifications of M.P. Möller organ, Op. 7119 (1944).
Illustration:
eBay.com. Photo of church house exterior; postcard of chapel. |
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