E. & G.G. Hook & Hastings
Opus 1012, 1880

According to the church's website - on the About The Pipe Organ page, *"One of the major milestones in the history of Broadway was the installation of the pipe organ. Some sixteen months after the idea was first suggested, a Festival was held on January 17, 1873 to raise funds for the purchase of an organ. The Committee was composed of S. W. Dunn, J.C. Dunn, Josiah Morris, J. R. Lippincott and Dr. David Wiley. In May 1879, J. R. Lippincott, J. B. Youker and Josiah Morris raised further funds totaling $1,200 ($25,000 in today’s standards). By June 1880, sufficient funds were in hand, and a committee was appointed to purchase the organ. E. & G.G. Hook and Hastings of Boston was contracted to build the organ in the fall of 1880. Opus #1012 (order of construction), the original organ had 2 manuals and 20 stops.

The organ was installed in the gallery over the back of the church. Wind was supplied by hand bellows, pumped manually by long wood handles. In 1895 the organ was moved to the front of the sanctuary as it is seen today.

Later, a water powered motor was installed to pump the bellows. In 1912 the first electric turbine was purchased to supply wind to the wind chests."

Updated through online information from Russ Nyland. -- Rebuilt with electric action and enlarged by Hook & Hastings in 1929 as their opus 2571.

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