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St. Simon Episcopal Church
1055 Richmond Road at Columbus Avenue
Staten Island, N.Y. 10304
Organ Specifications:
1055 Richmond Road at Columbus Avenue (since 1960)
• unknown (Wicks moved?)
Clove and Richmond Roads (1940-1960)
► II/3 Wicks Organ Company, Op. 2364 (1941)
Rhine Avenue, near Steuben Street, Concord
• II/ Charles Viner & Son (>1900)
Targee Street, Stapleton
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| Undated postcard of church on Clove Road |
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St. Simon's Episcopal Church was established in 1854 as "St. Simon's Free German Chapel of the Protestant Episcopal Church" to serve the German population in Stapleton. The chapel was a mission of St. John's, Clifton, where the Rev. Richard Abercrombie was rector. The first services were held in a little building on Targee Street, Stapleton, and then in the vacant First Baptist Church, a frame building which was later moved to Rhine Avenue near Steuben Street, Concord, and again in 1940 to a site near Clove and Richmond Roads. St. Simon's became an independent parish in 1955.
The present building at 1055 Richmond Road was built in 1960 after the Clove Road property was vacated to make way for the Clove Lakes Expressway (I-278). |
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Wicks Organ Company
Highland, Ill. – Opus 2364 (1941)
Electric stop and combination action
2 manuals, 20 registers, 3 stops, 3 ranks
For their 1940 building at Clove and Richmond Roads, the vestry purchased a small unit organ built by Wicks Pipe Organ Company of Highland, Illinois. This organ may have been moved to the present church building in 1960. The following stoplist was published in The American Organist (June 1953). |
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Great Organ (Manual I) – 61 notes
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16 |
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Flute [TC] |
SW |
4 |
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Diapason |
— |
8 |
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Diapason |
61 |
4 |
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Flute |
SW |
8 |
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Flute |
SW |
4 |
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Salicional |
SW |
8 |
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Salicional |
SW |
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Swell Organ (Manual II) – 61 notes, enclosed
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16 |
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Flute [TC] |
97 |
4 |
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Flute |
— |
8 |
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Diapason |
GT |
2 2/3 |
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Flute |
— |
8 |
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Flute |
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2 |
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Flute |
— |
8 |
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Salicional |
61 |
8 |
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Oboe [syn.] |
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8 |
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Quintadena [syn.] |
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Tremulant |
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Pedal Organ – 32 notes
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16 |
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Flute [1-12 free reed] |
SW |
4 |
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Diapason |
GT |
8 |
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Flute |
SW |
4 |
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Flute |
SW |
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Organ in church located on Rhine Avenue, Concord:
Charles Viner & Son
Buffalo, N.Y. (>1900)
Electro-pneumatic action?
2 manuals
Sometime after 1900, an organ built by Viner & Son of Buffalo was installed on the left side of the chancel. Specifications of this organ have not yet been located. |
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Sources:
The American Organist (June 1953). Stoplist of Wicks Organ Co. organ, Op. 2364 (1941). Courtesy Jeff Scofield.
Holden, Edna. Holden's Staten Island: The History of Richmond County : Revised Resource Manual Sketches for the Year Two Thousand Two. Center for Migration Studies, 2003.
Leng, Charles William, and William Thompson Davis. Staten Island and its people: a history, 1609-1929, Volume 5. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1930-1933.
Papas, Phillip and Lori R. Weintrob. Port Richmond. Mount Pleasant, SC: 2009.
Trupiano, Larry. Electronic correspondence (Sept. 12, 2013) with history of St. Simon's Church.
Illustrations:
Episcopal Diocese of New York website.
Exterior.
New York Public Library Digital Collection. Undated postcard of church on Clove Road.
Trupiano, Larry. Undated interior of building on Rhine Avenue, Concord, showing Charles Viner & Son organ. |
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