Vandewater Street Presbyterian Church

Vandewater Street
New York, N.Y. 10002


Vandewater Street ran from Frankfort to Pearl Streets one block east of Rose Street. It was closed about 1970 for Murry Bergtraum High School and the adjoining Verizon building.
           
Hall & Erben
New York City (1824)
Mechanical action
2 manuals, 13 stops


This organ was described in The Lyre (Jan. 1, 1825):
The front of the organ is particularly elegant, and richly ornamented. The Dulceano in the great organ is very fine, as is also the Hautboy in the swell. Nor must we omit mentioning the contrivance so as to take up a little room as possible. This is done by letting the front project over the head of the organist, by this means giving room for a much larger choir than could otherwise be accommodated. The organ is placed in a recess in the rear over the pulpit.
               
Great Organ
8
  Open Diapason  
3
   Twelfth  
8
  Stop Diapason  
2
   Fifteenth  
8
  Dulceano  
8
   Trumpet  
4
   Principal          

     

     
Swell Organ
8
  Dulceano  
4
  Flute  
8
  Stop Diapason  
8
  Hautboy  

     

     
Choir Bass (lower range of Swell Organ)
8
   Stop Diapason          
4
   Flute          
           
Sources:
     The Lyre (Vol 1, No. 8, Jan. 1, 1825). Description of Hall & Erben organ. Courtesy Larry Trupiano.
     Ogasapian, John. Organ Building in New York City: 1700-1900. Braintree: The Organ Literature Foundation, 1977. Stoplist of Hall & Erben organ from The Lyre (Vol. 1, No. 8, Jan. 1, 1825). .