Unknown Builder
1911

Originally Steer & Turner [J.W. Steer] (1878)

St. Andrew's Presbyterian (later United) Church

1894 building

92 Main Street
St. Catharines (Port Dalhousie), ON, CA

17 Ranks - 900 Pipes
Instrument ID: 70947 ● Builder ID: 6193 ● Location ID: 61298
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Originally Written/Published: July 18, 1910

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Builder: Unknown
Position: Unknown
Design: Unknown
Pedalboard Type: Unknown
Features:
2 Manuals (58 Notes)27 Note PedalMechanical (Unknown) Key ActionMechanical Stop Action✓ Combination Trundle(s)

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Expression Type: Balanced Expression Shoes/Pedals (Details Unknown)
Combination Action: Fixed Mechanical
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This instrument is: Not Extant and Not Playable in this location

Paul R. Marchesano on May 21st, 2025:

From guidetags.com, local history website:
"The current brick and stone church was built in 1894, displaying vernacular Gothic Revival style influences in the windows on the front facade. This elaborate style is associated with the pointed arches combined with towers, steep gabled roofs, and circular "rose" windows in stained glass. The cemetery associated with the church is located at the foot of Johnson Street in Port Dalhousie, and contains the graves of the Muir, Abbey, Martindale, and Lawrie families (Tour St. Catharines, 2002).

In 1911 the church acquired an organ from St. Paul's Presbyterian Church of Hamilton which at the time was 33 years old. It had 650 pipes and was constructed by the Steere Organ Company of Springfield, Mass."


Andrew Henderson on December 30th, 2023:

From the St. Catharines Standard, July 8, 1910, upon installation of the organ at the Presbyterian Church in Port Dalhousie, Ontario: "The organ was procured from the congregation of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Hamilton (which church has just installed a new instrument, one of the best manufactured). It was built by the Steere & Turner Co., of Springfield, Mass., is of the two manual variety, and is equipped with 8 speaking stops in the swell organ, 10 stops in the great organ, and 2 speaking stops in the pedal organ. There are also 10 mechanical registers, couplers, combinations, etc. The pipes number in all 900. The compass of the manual is 58 notes, of the pedals 27 notes ... the appearance of the organ is most handsome. The woodwork is of solid ash throughout and the pipes are ornamented in gold leaf."

Rebuilt/electrified by the Keates Organ Company in 1952. Church closed in 2014; fate of organ unknown.

Related Instrument Entries: Steer & Turner [J.W. Steer] (1878) , Keates Organ Co. (1945)

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