Newcomer Organ Co.
1993

This writer serviced this organ in the 1990s. Before the military takeover in the 1940s, this building and complex was a girl's finishing school. for daughters of Washington's elites. The very nice early 20th century "Colonial" chapel housed the Skinnner organ, which was its first and only organ. The organ was typical for Skinner's of the early & mid 1920s, though sounded well in the rather acoustically dead chapel. Lack of some basic upper work limited the affect to some degree. The Pedal and some of the other divisions were in a case along the right side of the chapel chancel. Much of the pedal pipes, closest to the nave is impossible to access and with no lighting seems to not have been given any thought, by the Skinner company for general maintenance or tuning.
After the attacks of 9-11, the federal government converted the chapel, which had had its own congregation of people who were working in that department and the general DC area, to a lecture hall and put the organ up for sale. As they wanted the space occupied for by the organ.
The instrument had been altered by the DC firm of Newcomer Brother, with its pneumatic chest actions converted to all electric solenoids.

The former girls' school was occupied by the Naval Security Station in 1943. Revoiced and rebuilt by Newcomer in 1966 and the 1990s. The organ is for sale in 2005. (Information from Alan Kinzey in 2005.)