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Union Baptist Church
401 Atlantic Avenue at Bond Street
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11217
Organ Specifications:
401 Atlantic Avenue at Bond Street (1945-?)
► II/9 George Jardine & Son (1864)
266 Myrtle Avenue (1916-1945)
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The Christian Union Baptist Church, organized sometime before 1916, had its first known building on Myrtle Avenue. In 1945, the Baptists moved to the former Second United Presbyterian Church on Atlantic Avenue, who had owned the building from 1857 until they disbanded in 1945. The building dates to 1850 when it was erected for St. Peter Protestant Episcopal Church, but that congregation stayed only seven years before moving to a more elegant church on State Street. Unfortunately, Atlantic Avenue wasn't a great location for a church in the 1850s as the Long Island Rail Road had an open cut down the center of the street in which wood-burning locomotives traveled between the main terminal at Atlantic Avenue and Flatbush and the harbor terminal at the end of Atlantic.
At an unknown date, the Baptist congregation left the location and the building is now home to the Belorussian Autocephalic Orthodox Church. |
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George Jardine & Son
New York City (c.1850)
Mechanical action
2 manuals, 9 stops, 9 ranks
This organ was built in 1864 by George Jardine & Son for St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church, original owners of the building. The following specification is from the files of Louis F. Mohr & Co., a longtime organ service firm in the area. Mohr's record, dated June 15, 1953, shows that the building was then the Union Baptist Church at 401 Atlantic Avenue. While Mohr included the manual (54) and pedal (30) compasses, he did not indicate pitches or which stops had a "treble" compass. The c.1900 photo above shows a fairly small organ in which there would not be room for full-compass 8' stops. Thus, pipecounts given below are suggested. The side facade of the organ appears to be a later addition, and the pedal compass was probably extended to 30 notes at some point, suggesting that the organ may have been moved from the gallery. Mohr noted that the organ was hand pumped. The fate of this organ is unknown. |
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Great Organ (Manual I) – 54 notes
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Open Diapason [TC?] |
42 |
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8 |
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Stop Diapason Bass |
12 |
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8 |
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Stop Diapason Treble |
42 |
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8 |
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Dulciana [TC?] |
42 |
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Swell Organ (Manual II) – 54 notes, enclosed
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Open Diapason [TC?] |
42 |
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Flute |
54 |
8 |
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Stop Diapason Bass |
12 |
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Fifteenth |
54 |
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Dulciana [TC?] |
42 |
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Tremulant |
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4 |
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Principal |
54 |
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Pedal – 30 notes [originally 25 or 27 notes?]
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Bourdon |
30 |
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Couplers
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Pedal to Great |
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Swell to Great |
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Mechanicals
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Swell shade foot lever bar (hitch-down pedal) |
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hand pumped |
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Sources:
"Church Group Buys Brooklyn Building," The New York Times (June 21, 1945).
Mohr, Louis F. & Co. Specifications (June 15, 1923) of Jardine Organ in Union Baptist Church. Courtesy Larry Trupiano.
Nelson, George. Organs in the United States and Canada Database. Seattle, Wash.
Illustrations:
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. Exterior (1900); interior showing Jardine organ (c.1900). |
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