E. & G. G. Hook
Opus 400, 1866

Database Manager on September 15, 2014:

Updated through online information from John Igoe. -- April 2002 article in The Diapason describes the 1990 Andover restoration

Database Manager on June 10, 2007:

Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Building originally built in 1866 as a performing arts/community center. Organ believed to be original, but only one documented E. & G.G. Hook appears on the Hook opus list - First Congregational, a I-manual from 1857. However, two Hook organs from 1866 exist but are for undesignated buyers/locations: opuses 392 and 393. Perhaps it is one of these. The facade is three-sectional with three Romanesque arches containing 23 stenciled facade pipes arranged: 7-9-7. Building gradually fell into disuse and the organ into disrepair. Suffered from some vandalism. 1978, Cheney Hall designated a National Historic Landmark Building by the U.S. Dept. of the Interior. Organ believed to have been restored by Andover ca. 1991.

Identified from company publications as edited and expanded in The Hook Opus List 1829-1935, ed. William T. Van Pelt (Organ Historical Society, 1991).