| The New York City Organ Project
Organs present and past in the five boroughs of New York City
Acknowledgments and Sources
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| The indexes of organs were compiled from a variety of sources, including, but not limited to, books and periodicals, organ journals, published opus lists, and online resources. Most of the Project's webpages created thus far include a "Sources" box that contains specific bibliographic references.
Special thanks and appreciation go to Jonathan Bowen, of Philadelphia, and Jeff Scofield, of Chattanooga, Tenn. Jonathan periodically raids the Archives of the Organ Historical Society in Princeton, N.J., and copies anything pertaining to organs in New York City. Jeff Scofield, who is website manager of the Aeolian-Skinner Archives, was the first person outside of New York to let me know that he had information that I could probably use. Since then, Jeff has graciously shared his extensive files of organ specifications and photos. Allen Kinzey (Tucson, Ariz.) and Sand Lawn (Monroe, La.), compilers of the E.M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List (pub. Organ Historical Society), have been very generous in sharing their records. Sand has also provided copies of organ builders' opus lists he compiled over the years, after they were reformatted and electronically sent by David Scribner (Little Rock, Ark). George Nelson (Seattle, Wa.) has extracted the New York City records—nearly 5000 in all—from his "Organs in the United States and Canada Database." Jim Lewis (Pasadena, CA) has also shared his files and photographs, including many Aeolian organs. Many others have contributed stoplists and photos, and are acknowledged on individual webpages for those instruments. All of these colleagues have a very special interest in the organ; without their help and assistance, the New York City Organ Project could not have grown so quickly.
We have all of the factory specifications from Casavant Frères, Ltée., thanks to Stanley Scheer, Vice President Emeritus. Phil Stimmel and John Carnahan have sent all extant Shop Orders from the Estey Organ Company. Christopher Leaver from the Reuter Organ Company provided specifications of all organs by that firm in New York City. Thanks also to Edward Odell (J.H. & C.S. Odell), Sebastian Glück (Glück Orgelbau), Anthony Meloni (Meloni & Farrier Organbuilders), and one colleague who prefers to remain anonymous, for sending specifications from their files. Special thanks to Larry Trupiano (Mann & Trupiano, Brooklyn) who is systematically scanning and sending his voluminous files for the project.
Thank you to area organists who have typed the stoplists of organs at their places of employment, and to the staff at various venues who have unlocked organ lofts and consoles, and turned on the lights. One church secretary brought several old programs to the organ gallery as I was taking photographs. She said, "Well, we kept all this stuff over the years knowing that someone, someday would want to see it. And that would be you!"
Steven E. Lawson, Webmaster
New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists
Updated: 27 August 2008
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Adams, Michael Henry. Harlem Lost and Found: An Architectural and Social History, 1765-1915. New York: Monacelli Press, 2002.
Armbruster, Eugene L. The Eastern District of Brooklyn with Illustrations and Maps. pub. by the author, New York, 1912.
Audsley, George Ashdown. The Organ of the Twentieth Century. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1919.
Barnes, William Harrison, and Edward B. Gammons. Two Centuries of American Organ Building. Glen Rock: J. Fisher & Bro., 1970.
Berdy, Judith and the Roosevelt Island Historical Society. Images of America: Roosevelt Island. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2003.
Biswanger, Ray. Music in the Marketplace: The Story of Philadelphia's Historic Wanamaker Organ. Bryn Mawr: published by The Friends of the Wanamaker Organ, Inc., 1999.
Bitgood, Roberta. Swell to Great: A Backward Look From My Organ Loft. Salem, Conn.: The Bayberry Design Company, LLC., 2000.
Blanton, Joseph Edwin. The Organ in Church Design. Albany, TX: Venture Press, 1957.
Booth, Mary Louise. History of the City of New York. New York: W.R.C. Clark, 1867.
Brockmann, Jorg and Bill Harris. One Thousand New York Buildings. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc., 2002.
Brown, Henry Collins, ed. Valentine's Manual of the City of New York: 1917-1918 (New Series No. 2). New York: The Old Colony Press, 1917.
Burrows, Edwin G. and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Callahan, Charles. Aeolian-Skinner Remembered: A History in Letters. Minneapolis: Randall M. Egan, 1996.
Callahan, Charles. The American Classic Organ: A History in Letters. Richmond: The Organ Historical Society, 1990.
Dix, Morgan. A History of the Parish of Trinity Church in the City of New York. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1901.
Dolkart, Andrew S. Morningside Heights: A History of Its Architecture & Development. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Dolkart, Andrew S. and Matthew A. Postal. Guide to New York City Landmarks (Third Edition). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004.
Dolkart, Andrew S. and Gretchen S. Sorin. Touring Historic Harlem: Four Walks in Northern Manhattan. New York: New York Landmarks Conservancy, 1997.
Driscoll, James, for the Voelker Orth Museum Bird Sanctuary, and Victorian Garden. Flushing 1880-1935. Chicago: Arcadia Publishing, 2005.
Dunlap, David. From Abyssinian to Zion: A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
Dunlap, David W. and Joseph J. Vecchione. Glory in Gotham: Manhattan's Houses of Worship, A Guide to Their History, Architecture and Legacy. New York: City and Company, 2001.
Fox, David H. A Guide to North American Organbuilders (Rev. ed.). Richmond: The Organ Historical Society, 1997.
Glueck, Grace and Paul Gardner. Brooklyn People and Places, Past and Present. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1991.
Gonzalez, Evelyn. The Bronx. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
Gray, Christopher. New York Streetscapes: Tales of Manhattan's Significant Buildings and Landmarks. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003.
Haberstroh, Richard. The German Churches of Metropolitan New York: A Research Guide. New York: The New York Genealogical & Biographical Society, 2000.
Hermalyn, Gary and Robert Kornfeld. Landmarks of The Bronx. Bronx, NY: Bronx Historical Society, 1989.
Hickman, Cynthia. Harlem Churches at the End of the 20th Century. New York: Dunbar Press, 2001.
History of Queens County, New York, with Illustrations, Portraits & Sketches. New York: W.W. Munsell & Co., 1882.
Holden, Dorothy. The Life and Work of Ernest M. Skinner. Richmond: The Organ Historical Society, 1987.
Homberger, Eric. The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City's History. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2005.
Greater Astoria Historical Society with Thomas Jackson and Richard Melnick. Images of America: Long Island City. Charleston, S.C., 2004.
Junchen, David L., compiled and edited by Jeff Weiler. The WurliTzer Pipe Organ – An Illustrated History. Indianapolis: The American Theatre Organ Society, 2005.
Junchen, David L. Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ, Vols. I & II. Pasadena: Showcase Publications, 1985.
Kaufmann, Preston J. Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ, Vol. 3. Pasadena: Showcase Publications, 1995.
Kathrens, Michael C. Great Houses of New York 1880-1930. New York: Acanthus Press, 2005.
King, Moses. Notable New Yorkers of 1896-1899: A Companion Volume to King's Handbook of New York City. New York: Bartlett & Company, 1899.
King, Moses. Photographic Views of New York. Boston: Moses King, 1895.
Kinzey, Allen and Sand Lawn, comps. E.M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List (New Rev. Ed). Richmond: The Organ Historical Society, 1997.
Lamb, Mrs. Martha J. and Mrs. Burton Harrison. History of the City of New York: Its Origin Rise, and Progress. (Vol. III) New York: The A. S. Barnes Company, 1896.
McNamara, John. McNamara's Old Bronx. Bronx: The Bronx County Historical Society, 1989.
Melnick, Ross, and Andreas Fuchs. Cinema Treasures: A New Look at Classic Movie Theaters. St. Paul, Minn.: MBI Publishing Company, 2004.
Miller, Terry. Greenwich Village and How It Got That Way. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
Morris, Ira K. Morris's Memorial History of Staten Island, New York, Vol II. West New Brighton, Staten Island: pub. by the author, 1900..
Morrone, Francis. An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn. Brooklyn: Gibbs Smith, 2001.
Nelson, George. Organs in the United States and Canada Database. Seattle, Wash.
Ochse, Orpha. Austin Organs. Richmond: The Organ Historical Society, 2001.
Ochse, Orpha. The History of the Organ in the United States. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975.
Ogasapian, John. English Cathedral Music in New York: Edward Hodges of Trinity Church. Richmond: The Organ Historial Society, 1994.
Ogasapian, John. Organ Building in New York City: 1700-1900. Braintree, Mass.: The Organ Literature Foundation, 1977.
Okrent, Daniel. Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center. New York: Viking Penguin, 2003.
Owen, Barbara. The Organ in New England: An Account of Its Use and Manufacture to the End of the Nineteenth Century. Raleigh: The Sunbury Press, 1979.
Pildas, Ave, text by Lucinda Smith. Movie Palaces. Santa Monica, CA: Hennessey + Ingalls, 2000. Robinson, Altert F., ed. The Bicentennial Tracker: In Commemoration of the Bicentennial of the United States of America, 1776-1976, and the Twentieth Anniversary of The Organ Historical Society, 1956-1976. Richmond: The Organ Historical Society, 1976.
Salwen, Peter. Upper West Side Story: A History and Guide. New York: Abbeville Press, 1989.
Seitz, Sharon, and Stuart Miller. The Other Islands of New York City. Woodstock, VT: The Countryman Press, 2001.
Self, William. For Mine Eyes Have Seen. Worcester, Mass.: The Worcester Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, 1990.
Seyfried, Vincent F. and William Asadorian. Old Queens, N.Y. in Early Photographs. Mineola, N.Y., 1991.
Shelley, Thomas J. The Bicentennial History of the Archdiocese of New York 1808-2008. Strasbourg: Éditions du Signe, 2007.
Silver, Nathan. Lost New York. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
Smith, David Lennox, ed. by Orpha Ochse. Murray M. Harris and Organ Building in Los Angeles, 1894-1913. Richmond: The Organ Historical Society, 2005.
Smith, Rollin. The Aeolian Pipe Organ and its Music. Richmond: The Organ Historical Society, 1998.
Smith, Rollin. Stokowski and the Organ. Hillsdale, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, 2004.
Stern, Robert A.M., Gregory Gilmartin, and Thomas Mellins. New York 1930: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars. New York City: Rizzoli International Publications, 1987.
Stern, Robert A.M., Thomas Mellins, and David Fishman. New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age. New York City: The Monacelli Press, 1999.
Stiles, Henry Reed. History of the City of Brooklyn: Including the Old Town and Village of Brooklyn, the Town of Bushwick, and the Village and City of Williamsburgh. Brooklyn: pub. by subscription, 1863.
"Stop, Open and Reed – a Periodical Presentation of Pipe Organ Progress". Boston: Skinner Organ Company, 1922-1927.
Strong, Thomas M. The History of the Town of Flatbush, Kings County, Long-Island. New York: Thomas R. Mercein, 1842.
Sumner, William Leslie. The Organ: Its Evolution, Principles of Construction and Use. New York: 1973.
Taylor, Clarence. The Black Churches of Brooklyn. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
Ulmann, Albert. A Landmark History of New York: Also the Origin of Street Names and a Bibliography. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1901.
Ultan, Lloyd and Barbara Unger. Bronx Accent: A Literary and Pictorial History of the Borough. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2001.
Ultan, Lloyd and Gary Hermalyn. The Bronx in the Innocent Years: 1890-1925. Bronx, NY: The Bronx County Historical Society, 1991.
Vanderbilt, Gertrude Lefferts. The Social History of Flatbush, and Manners and Customs of the Dutch Settlers in Kings County. Brooklyn: Frederick Loesser and Co., 1909.
Webber, F.R. "Some Early Organs in New York City Described Vividly," The Diapason, a monthly series running from June 1 - September 1, 1957.
Wenner, George. The Lutherans of New York: Their Story and Their Problems. New York: The Petersfield Press, 1918.
Wilson, James Grant, ed. The Memorial History of the City of New York from Its First Settlement to the Year 1892. New York: New-York History Company, 1893.
The WPA Guide to New York City: The Federal Writers Project Guide to 1930s New York. New York: The New Press, 1939.
Younger, William Lee. Old Brooklyn in Early Photographs 1865-1929. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1978.
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| Journals and Periodicals |
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The American Organist, journal of The American Guild of Organists; pub. New York City.
The Brooklyn [Daily] Eagle, Brooklyn, NY, via Brooklyn Public Library website.
The Diapason, former journal of The American Guild of Organists; pub. New York City; now independent journal pub. Chicago.
Music – The A.G.O. Magazine, former journal of The American Guild of Organists; pub. New York City.
The New York Times, New York City.
The Tracker, journal of the Organ Historical Society; pub. Richmond, Va. |
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| Miscellaneous |
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| Archives of the Episcopal Diocese of New York; courtesy Wayne L. Kempton, Archivist. |
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| Opus Lists |
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| Aeolian Company |
| Smith, Rollin. The Aeolian Pipe Organ and its Music. Richmond: The Organ Historical Society, 1998. |
| Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company, Inc. |
Aeolian-Skinner Archives: http://www.aeolian-skinner.110mb.com
Kinzey, Allen, and Sand Lawn. E.M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List (New Revised Edition). Richmond: The Organ Historical Society, 1997. |
| Austin Organ Company, Austin Organs, Inc. |
Ochse, Orpha. Austin Organs. Richmond: The Organ Historical Society, 2001.
Opus List on the Austin Organ Company website: http://www.austinorgans.com/ |
| Casavant Frères, Limitée |
| Factory specifications for all organs installed in New York City, courtesy Stanley Scheer of Casavant Frères, Limitée, St. Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada. |
| Henry Erben |
| Opus List compiled by Sand Lawn; courtesy of David Scribner. |
| Estey Organ Company |
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| Felgemaker |
| Opus List compiled by Sand Lawn; courtesy of David Scribner. |
| Richard M. Ferris |
| Opus List compiled by Sand Lawn; courtesy of David Scribner. |
| Flentrop Orgelbouw B.V. |
| http://www.flentrop.nl/ |
| Gress-Miles |
| Opus List compiled by Sand Lawn, courtesy of David Scribner. |
| Hall & Labagh |
| Opus List compiled by Sand Lawn; courtesy of David Scribner. |
| Murray M. Harris Organ Co. |
| Smith, David Lennox, ed. by Orpha Ochse. Murray M. Harris and Organ Building in Los Angeles, 1894-1913. Richmond: The Organ Historical Society, 2005. |
| Hillgreen-Lane |
| Opus List compiled by Sand Lawn; courtesy of David Scribner. |
| Holtkamp Organ Company |
| Opus List compiled by Sand Lawn; courtesy of David Scribner. |
| E. & G.G. Hook, Hook and Hastings |
| Van Pelt, William T., comp. The Hook Opus List, 1829-1916 in Facsimile. Richmond: The Organ Historical Society, 1991. |
| George Hutchings, Hutchings-Votey |
| Opus List compiled by Sand Lawn; courtesy of David Scribner. |
| George Jardine, Jardine & Son |
| Opus List compiled by Sand Lawn; courtesy of David Scribner. |
| William Johnson |
| Opus List compiled by Sand Lawn; courtesy of David Scribner. |
| George Kilgen and Son |
| Opus List compiled by Sand Lawn; courtesy of David Scribner. |
| W. W. Kimball Co. |
| Opus List compiled by Sand Lawn; courtesy of David Scribner. |
| Reuben Midmer, Midmer and Son, Midmer-Losh |
| Opus List compiled by Sand Lawn; courtesy of David Scribner. |
| M. P. Möller, Inc. |
| Opus List compiled by the Boston Organ Club; courtesy Larry Trupiano. |
| J.H. & C.S. Odell & Company |
Opus List compiled by Sand Lawn; courtesy of David Scribner.
Selected stoplists courtesy Edward Odell, J.H. & C.S. Odell Pipe Organs. |
| Henry Pilcher's Son |
| Opus List compiled by Sand Lawn; courtesy of David Scribner. |
| Reuter Organ Co. |
| Factory specifications for all Reuter organs in New York City; courtesy S. Christopher Leaver. |
| Rieger Orgelbau |
| Opus List found on Rieger Orgelbau website: http://www.rieger-orgelbau.com/ |
| Hilborne and Frank Roosevelt |
| Opus List compiled by Sand Lawn; courtesy of David Scribner. |
| Schlicker Organ Company |
| Opus List compiled by Sand Lawn; courtesy of David Scribner. |
| Skinner Organ Company, Ernest M. Skinner, Ernest M. Skinner and Son |
Aeolian-Skinner Archives: http://www.aeolian-skinner.110mb.com
Kinzey, Allen, and Sand Lawn. E.M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List (New Revised Edition). Richmond: The Organ Historical Society, 1997. |
| George Steere |
| Opus List compiled by Sand Lawn; courtesy of David Scribner. |
| Tellers Organ Company |
Opus List compiled by Sand Lawn; courtesy of David Scribner.
Tellers Organ Company; courtesy Aaron Tellers, |
| Theatre Organs |
Junchen, David L. Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ, Vol. I. Pasadena: Showcase Publications, 1985.
Junchen, David L. Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ, Vol. II. Pasadena: Showcase Publications, 1989.
Junchen, David L., compiled and edited by Jeff Weiler. The WurliTzer Pipe Organ – An Illustrated History. Indianapolis: The American Theatre Organ Society, 2005.
Kaufmann, Preston J. Encyclopedia of the American Theatre Organ, Vol. 3. Pasadena: Showcase Publications, 1995. |
| Welte, Welte-Mignon, Welte-Tripp |
| Opus List compiled by Sand Lawn; courtesy of David Scribner. |
| Wicks Organ Company |
| Opus List compiled by Sand Lawn; courtesy of David Scribner. |
| Wurlitzer Organ Company |
Opus List compiled by Sand Lawn; courtesy of David Scribner.
Theatre organs list compiled by David Junchen. |
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