This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ.

Identified by Steven Bartley, citing information from this publication: Der Deutsche Correspondent (Baltimore) May 10 1870 pg4. Additionally, Steven Bartley listed this web site as a source of information: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njm1/03stjohnhistory.htm.
A timeline history of St. John's, found on Rootsweb, indicates the church was known by different names, in its latter years St. John's German Evangelical Church, North side, Pastor F Scheidt.
This part of Pittsburgh was originally known as Allegheny City. Pomplitz organs were installed in a Catholic & Episcopal church.
The Der Deutsche Correspondent article, says that the organ was first erected in the Masonic Temple, Baltimore, for a music festival, before shipping to St. John's. It also provides a specification and the size, (24 tall, 19 wide, 14 deep) ; cost $1,000.
The building was taken, by the state in 1971 for a highway project. The congregation merged with another to form the Brighten Heights Lutheran Church. A 5 rank Moller was bought in 1973.