Andrew Henderson on April 20th, 2025:
This entry represents a installation of a new incorporating parts of its predecessor. Identified through online information from Andrew Henderson (April 19, 2025): From *The Democrat & Chronicle* (October 26, 1911): "Tonight at North Presbyterian Church, the new organ will be used for the first time, Mary Chappell Fisher will give a recital ... the programme has been prepared with a view to bringing out all the sweet tones that the builder of the organ, Charles M. Topliff, of No. 1304 St. Paul Street, claims for it. Those who have seen the organ praise its beauty and simplicity of design. F. H. Clement, one of the elders of the church, is the donor of the organ, the original cost of which is in the neighborhood of $5,000. Many of the parts of the old organ, built in 1889 by Emmons Howard of Westfield, Mass., were used in the construction of the new organ ... On the organ are two manuals of 58 notes each and 27 pedal notes. The stops are finished in ebony and the finish of the consul [sic] is mahogany, while the woodwork of the organ proper is quartered sawed oak, highly finished. The pipes of the organ are finished in maroon, shaded brown and genuine German gold leaf, double thickness."