Unknown Builder
1865ca.

Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -- Information from a 1960s-era organ visitation document. The case was old although whether older than the organ inside is now unknown. Stylistically, the details suggest the organ could have been the product of a local builder such as George Andrews (Utica), or one of a number of builders working in this central New York region such as Giles Beach, William Davis, or Augustus Backus. The town is not listed on any opus list for Andrews, Marklove, or Davis. A very old newspaper clipping suggests Elsworth Phelps built an organ for North Afton, but he was working in nearby Guilford between ca. 1818 and ca. 1850, and the details of this instrument describe something built much later. Further research is needed to find a photo of the instrument to better determine a possible builder. The description of the pipework states it was spotted metal, with tuning slots, and the note taker questioned in the margin whether the pipes may have been younger than the case and works. The organ was stated as gone by 1980, in an annotated OHS organ list in the possession of Alan Laufmann.