M. P. Möller
Opus 3318, 1922

Updated through online information from Jeff Scofield. -- The contract was signed in February 1922 for completion that October; it was put into storage when the church was taken down and rebuilt, then moved to the new church in early 1930; twenty-nine stops retained from the Pilcher; by the early 1970's, the organ had been abandoned in place; a 4-rank Möller was installed in 1975; it was replaced by a Phoenix electronic in 2007 and shipped off to a residence in Texas.

Updated through on-line information from Jeff Scofield. -- The organ was replaced by 1975 2/3 Möller Op. 11054, though Op. 3318 is still entombed in the side chambers of the gallery; Op. 11054 was replaced by an electronic instrument.

Identified through information from John DeMajo: When the fair closed, the organ went to the Jesuit Fathers for their church on Baronne Street. In 1928 the original Immaculate Conception Church was damaged by foundation work from the Pere Marquette Building and other large buildings in the area. The organ was stored in the Roosevelt (now Fairmont) Hotel, across the street, while the original church was demolished and the present church was constructed. The organ was reinstalled in the new church, with additions, by the Moller Company.

Updated through information received via e-mail from John DeMajo: -- When I last saw it, the 32' open principal from the fair organ was sitll in tact and the facade pipes still had the original stenciling on them.Most of it is still there. The organ was supplemented by Moller when the new church was built, but the original Pilcher pipe work is mostly still there from what we could see. There were two buildings involved, which makes this location somewhat confusing. The Pilcher was moved to the original 1850's building in the same case that was installed at the Audubon Park Cotton Expo fair location. The church had structural problems resulting from the Jesiuts constructing an office building next door in the 1920's, and they demolished the building and erected an identical replica of the original building in 1928. That is the present church. The Pilcher was stored at the Roosevelt Hotel across the street while the construction was underway and when they reinstalled the organ, it was removed from the original Pilcher case and expanded by Moller and Rive Organ Company.