Unknown Builder
1940

This entry represents the installation of a used organ. Identified through online information from Steven Bartley (June 22, 2025): from The Richmond Times Dispatch; January 15, 1940 - Lengthy article about the dedication of a newly built Methodist church in Tappahanock VA., including a note about a used Pomplitz organ which the pastor had bought for $40, from a closed church in the Gloucester, VA. town of Cappahosic. The organ had originally been built for a "large" church in Baltimore, but was sold to the Cappahosic church some years before 1940. Research, by this writer has yet to learn more about the Cappahosic church, except there once was an African American Meetinghouse in that village. A number of Baltimore City Churches/synagogues are known to have purchased new Pomplitz organs, which were later to be made redundant due to closure, mergers, moves, demolitions, or the congregations purchased newer instruments from other companies. The article adds that the cost of the organ was only $40, with an additional $400 ($896 in today's money) towards moving, repairing and installing the Tappahanock church. This low cost and the fact that the Tappahanock church is not large indicates the organ was not a large instrument.