Database Manager on January 30th, 2016:
Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. <br>This instrument replaced Hook & Hastings No. 1412, 1889 located in chancel chambers. The Hope-Jones organ was originally installed in four cement expression boxes in the rear gallery of the church, and the chancel division of four ranks occupied a cement swell box built within the old organ chamber, (perhaps recycling Hook ranks?).<br><br>The chancel spoke into both the chancel, and into the nave via tone reflectors. The chancel also contained a powerful pedal Diaphone. The Wurlitzer company made modifications to the instrument in 1926, and beyond adding a second horseshoe console, the extent of these modifications or possible additions are unknown.<br><br>In 1953, The Schlicker Organ Co. installed a new 3-manual organ in the chancel, controlled from a single chancel console. The Hope-Jones instrument in the rear gallery was retained as a two-manual gallery division (Great, Swell, Pedal) which reused all the Hope-Jones pipework on their original H-J chests, but now disposed only as straight ranks. In 1964, a horizontal Trompeta Real playing at 16, 8, 4 was added to the Hope-Jones case front.<br><br>In 1974, the local CBS station, WBEN, and the Buffalo Evening News both carried prominent stories about the dismantling of the Hope-Jones instrument which required a professional building demolition crew to remove the four cement swell boxes in order to make way for a new, 2-manual neo-baroque antiphonal organ built by Schlicker. <br><br>The original Hope-Jones case front was retained, and with the loss of the original cement swell boxes, pushed back several feet to gain choir seating space in the rear gallery. Nine of the original 18 H-J gallery ranks were retained as a Solo division, placed in a small tower chamber located at the side of the gallery. The H-J wood 32' Tibia Profundissima and astounding 16' Tuba ranks were retained, now unenclosed, behind the original H-J case front. The Tuba was extended to 32' pitch. All Hope-Jones ranks not reused in 1975 were discarded.<br><br>The 1953 Schlicker nave organ was rebuilt and enlarged in 1988, this time on slider chests, retaining the 1975 Antiphonal and Solo divisions unaltered. In 2004, two new consoles were provided: a three-manual gallery console replacing the 1975 2-manual console which did not control the gallery Solo, and which now controls all the gallery pipework.

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Database Manager on June 25th, 2013:
Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield.

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Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
"Gallery and chancel divisions. Horseshoe console in the nave. Repairs in 1916 and additions (primarily in the chancel) in 1926 by Rudolph Wurlitzer Mfg. Co., inlcduing a 2nd horseshoe console for the chancel. Rebuilt by Schlicker in 1975, consolidating the Hope-Jones voices into a Solo division."