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The church and organ burned in 1968, leaving just the shell of the building and the tower, all of which were included in a contemporary-brutalist style replacement building completed in 1972; it has 3/64 Casavant Op. 3140.
The large 129-stop console (with double rows of couplers) was added in 1925 when Op. 241 was brought over from South Congregational Church and installed in the Channcel of First Church. The console played both organs. The crescendo registers were, from left, Chancel Swell, Gallery Swell, Chancel and Gallery Choir, Chancel Solo, Chancel Register, Gallery Register. William E. Zeuch, vice-president of Skinner, was organist at the church at the time the 1925 work was done. The organ was destroyed by fire in 1968.
Identified through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn:
#241 moved with new console for double organ incorporating Hutchings-Votey, #1513; Hutchings-Votey overhauled in 1928; three additions in 1930, #551-A; burned in 1968; replaced by Casavant, #3129 in new building.
Webpage Links: Opus 551: First Church, Unitarian
Related Instrument Entries: Ernest M. Skinner Company (Opus 241, 1915) , Ernest M. Skinner Company (Opus 241-A, 1916) , Hutchings-Votey Organ Co. (Opus 1513, ca. 1903) , Skinner Organ Co. (Opus 551-A, 1930)
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