Nutter & Kittredge

Active: Unknown - Present Type: UnknownBuilder ID: 4619

Distinction:

Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, circa 1830-1853

Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders by David H. Fox (Organ Historical Society, 1991). -

The Nutter & Kittredge partnership was active in Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, around 1853. The partners were John D. Nutter, Benjamin Nutter, and an (unknown) Kittredge.

Sources:

  • Barbara Owen, The Organ in New England (Raleigh: Sunbury Press, 1979), 408.
  • Barbara Owen.


Database Manager on November 8th, 2015:
From the OHS Database Builders Listing editor, September 30, 2016. —

"New Hampshire was especially blessed with parlor organ builders. In Mont Vernon there was a closely knit group of craftsmen who produced organs of one to four ranks. Simple in design, their work showed some features in their pipe construction that are found only in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania German organs and in "European and English organs of an even older date."2 These builders were all active about 1830 to 1845, and included Samuel Forrest, William Crowell, J.D. and Benjamen Nutter, and Kittredge."1

Sources:

  1. Orpha C. Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Indiana University Press, 1975) p. 140.
  2. Barbara Owen, Organ Building in New England in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Boston University thesis, 1962. p. 58.

Something missing or not quite correct?Add NoteorAdd WebpageorAdd ImageorAdd DocumentorSuggest an Edit

Database Specs:

  • 6 Instruments
  • 0 Consoles
  • 0 Blowers

Pipe Organ Database

A project of the Organ Historical Society