Tali Mahanor on February 6th, 2021:
Condition of #556 is unaltered and in factory-original condition. Has been professionally packed and crated. In storage in Suffern, NY.

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Database Manager on December 7th, 2019:
In 1918, the Broadway Baptist Church, which was seeking a new location, merged with and moved to the Fort Washington Baptist Church at 124 Wadsworth Avenue, between 179th and 180th Streets. In 1922, the church purchased the present lots at 210 Wadsworth Avenue and 184th Street with proceeds from the sale of the old Broadway Baptist Church and 124 Wadsworth Avenue. Architects Ludlow & Peabody designed the Georgian style church which opened on April 25, 1926. The 400-seat auditorium includes a gallery, and has a barrell vault ceiling. A small podium is provided for the pulpit, organ console and, originally, choir seating. On the back wall of the baptistry is a painting of the River Jordan, executed in 1929 by Cora Reibor. Above the baptistry is the organ facade containing five flats filled with gold pipes. In early 2015, the church property was sold to a developer who plans to demolish the church buildings and erect a residential building on the site. The new building is to have space on the ground floor for the church community. For their new building, the Wadsworth Avenue Baptist Church commissioned the Ernest M. Skinner Company of Boston to build a new organ. Installed in 1926 at a cost of $12,950, its pipes and mechanism are located in chambers above the baptistry and behind a facade of gold-painted, non-speaking display pipes. In 2007, the organ was unplayable due to a change in electrical service to the building by Con Edison electric company. It appears that the organ has not been altered, thus making it one of the few remaining Skinner organs in New York City to be in original condition.

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Database Manager on December 8th, 2018:
Updated by Tali Mahanor, who maintains the organ. <br> <br>Skinner Organ Opus 556 was moved, in its crates, on October 20, 2018, from Our Lady of Pompeii, NYC into storage in Suffern, NY

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Database Manager on February 24th, 2016:
In February 2016, the organ was removed by Organ Clearing House and stored in Our Lady of Pompeii R.C. Church in Greenwich Village. As funds become available, the organ will be restored and installed in the new location.

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Database Manager on March 23rd, 2006:
Identified through information adapted from <i>E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List</i>, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn: <br><i> Built in Westfield; extant in 1988.</i>