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Pilgrim Swedish Evangelical Congregational Church
415 Atlantic Avenue near Bond Street
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11217
The Svenska Evangeliska Pilgrimskyrkan (Pilgrim Swedish Evangelical Congregational Church) was organized in 1884, by the Home Missionary Society of the Congregational Church. At the beginning, services in the Swedish language were held in the basement of a house, but the society grew rapidly and was soon self-sufficient. Property was acquired on Atlantic Avenue, near Bond Street, and in 1903 a church was built to accomodate its almost 500 members. By the 1900s, the society was mainly comprised of American-born Swedes, and English services were introduced. It is not known when this congregation disbanded or merged into another church.
In 1946, this building housed the Holy Family Protestant Episcopal Church. That congregation later merged into Christ Church and was known as Christ Church & the Holy Family.
Today, the building houses The House of the Lord Pentecostal Church. |
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J.H. & C.S.
Odell
New York City – Opus 514 (1917)
Tubular-pneumatic action
2 manuals, 14 registers, 13 stops, 13 ranks
In 1917, J.H. & C.S. Odell of New York City was commissioned
to build a new organ for the Swedish Evangelical Pilgrim
Church of Brooklyn. The Articles of Agreement (February
26, 1917) between Odell and the church state that the organ
cost $2,800. The following specification was recorded by
Charles Scharpeger in an "organ
notebook" entry
dated July 11, 1946. Scharpeger's typed specification includes
a handwritten note that this was formerly Holy Family Episcopal
Church. Manual and pedal compasses
were not indicated,
but they are suggested below, based on similar Odell organs
of that time. Another source shows (probably erroneously)
that this organ was moved
in 1924 to the Presbyterian Church, Palisades, N.J. |
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Great Organ (Manual I) – 61 notes
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8 |
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Open Diapason |
61 |
8 |
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Dulciana |
61 |
8 |
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Gamba |
61 |
4 |
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Octave |
61 |
8 |
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Melodia |
61 |
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Swell Organ (Manual II) – 61 notes, enclosed
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16 |
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Bourdon |
61 |
8 |
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Vox Celeste (TC) |
49 |
8 |
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Open Diapason |
61 |
4 |
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Rohr Flute |
61 |
8 |
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Stopped Diapason |
61 |
8 |
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Oboe |
61 |
8 |
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Salicional |
61 |
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Tremulant |
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Pedal Organ – 32 notes
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16 |
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Bourdon |
30 |
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16 |
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Lieblich Gedeckt |
SW |
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Couplers
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Swell to Pedal |
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Swell to Great 16', 8', 4' |
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Great to Pedal |
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Swell to Swell 16', 4' |
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Pedal to Pedal Octave |
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Great to Great 16', 4' |
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Adjustable Combinations
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Pistons No. 1-2-3 affecting Swell Organ stops |
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Pistons No. 1-2-3 affecting Great Organ stops |
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Pedal Movements and Accessories
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Swell Pedal |
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Wind indicator |
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Crescendo Pedal |
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Crescendo indicator |
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Great to Pedal Reversible |
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Unknown Builder
(c.1903)
This organ by an unknown builder was moved by J.H. & C.S. Odell to the basement church of St. Anselm's Catholic Church in the Bronx. Specifications of this organ have not yet been located. |
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Sources:
Minutes of the Seventy-first Annual Meeting of the Congregational Association of New York. Syracuse, N.Y., May 1904. Walton, N.Y.: The Reporter Company, 1904.
Nelson, George. Organs in the United States and Canada Database. Seattle, Wash.
Petty, Bynum. J.H. & C.S. Odell Annotated
Opus
List.
Scharpeger, Charles. Organ notebook with specification of J.H. & C.S. Odell
organ, Op. 514 (1917). Courtesy Larry Trupiano.
Trupiano, Larry. Electronic correspondence (10/28/2012) regarding unknown organ that was moved to St. Anselm's R.C. Church in the Bronx.
Illustration:
Church-Building Quarterly (Vol. XIX, No. 1, Jan. 1901). New York: The Congregational Church-Building Society, 1901. Drawing of church. |
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