Database Manager on August 3rd, 2019:
This entry describes an original installation of a new pipe organ.
<br>Identified by Steven Bartley, citing information from this publication: Der Deutsche Correspondent Newspaper, Baltimore MD 12/19/1873 pg4.<br>Lloyd St Synagogue was built in the 1840s as the City's first dedicated synagogue. Today it is the center of the Baltimore Jewish Museum. With the birth of Reformed Judaism, in Baltimore, and their adapting the use of the pipe organ, Lloyd street temple followed other congregations. By the early 20th century the congregation had moved out of the working class neighborhood and the fledgling Ethnic Roman Catholics had moved in. The Der Deutsche article, as with many which were featured to the German speaking public, offered more details about the instrument, including a specification. The organ included 2 manuals, 2 octaves of pedals, 9 Great speaking Gt stops, 5 Swell stops, 2 pedal stops, three couplers, tremolo, calcant, cost $3000, was 16' tall x 13' wide x 10' deep, case style Romanesque. Presumably the organ was in one of the three galleries, as there the building is not large and the floor space is filled with pews.