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1947 photo of original 1872 building |
Lenox Road Baptist Church
1356 Lenox Road at Nostrand Avenue
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11226
http://www.lrbc.net
The Lenox Road Baptist Church was formally organized on March 12, 1872, and publicly recognized as a regularly constituted Baptist Church on April 12, 1872. Originally an all-white congregation, the church and community went through several demographic and socio-economic changes beginning in the 1960s. By the 1970s, the church had been transformed into a culturally mixed and diverse congregation comprised of immigrants from the southern states as well as from the Caribbean, Panama, British Virgin Islands, Costa Rica, Guyana, and other parts of the world.
On December 23, 1975, the 103-year-old landmark church was totally destroyed by fire. Services were held at the Grand Theatre until the new church could be built. |
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Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company, Inc.
Boston, Mass. – Opus 879 (1932)
Electro-pneumatic action
2 manuals, 12 registers, 10 stops, 10 ranks
In January 1932, a $5,000 contract was awarded to the Aeolian Company for a two-manual organ. The Aeolian Company assigned Op. 1805 to this organ. Following the merger of the Aeolian and Skinner organ companies later that year, the organ was installed as Aeolian-Skinner's Op. 879 in 1932. The church and organ were destroyed by fire in 1975. |
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Great Organ (Manual I) – 61 notes, enclosed with Swell
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8 |
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Diapason |
73 |
8 |
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Dulciana |
73 |
8 |
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Clarabella |
73 |
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Tremolo |
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Gross Flute (ext. PED) |
29 |
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Swell Organ (Manual II) – 61 notes, enclosed
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8 |
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Diapason |
73 |
4 |
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Flute |
73 |
8 |
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Gedeckt |
73 |
8 |
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Cornopean |
73 |
8 |
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Viole |
73 |
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Tremolo |
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Viole Celeste |
73 |
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Pedal Organ – 32 notes
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Bourdon |
44 |
8 |
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Flute (fr. Bourdon) |
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W. W. Kimball Co.
Chicago, Ill.
The files of Louis F. Mohr & Company, an organ service company, show that they serviced an organ in this church built by W.W. Kimball. Specifications of this organ have not yet been located. |
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Sources:
Aeolian-Skinner Archives website: http://aeolianskinner.organsociety.org/.
Stoplist of Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co. organ, Op. 879 (1932).
Lenox Road Baptist Church website: http://www.lrbc.net/
Smith, Rollin. The Aeolian Pipe Organ and its Music. Richmond: The Organ Historical Society, 1998.
Trupiano, Larry. Organ list from the files of Louis F. Mohr & Company.
Illustration:
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. 1947 photo of original church. |
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