Adam Stein, (Organ Works)
1898

This entry represents the installation of a new organ. Identified through online information from Steve Bartley [November 28.2025]: from Annual Report of the Peabody Institute of the CIty of Baltimore 1876 pg. 19; Baltimore Sun 10/20/1901 & 12/3/1898 pg. 3;
The only reference which has surfaced concerning an organ in the Peabody Institute is mentioned in the 1875 Report of the institution. It briefly mentions that "the
organ was in need of repair due to mice eating its bellows. That the Mason & Hamlin reed organ company would replace the organ with a new one for $100, which was accepted. This organ may have been a small used organ which were common in those days, A single manual instrument with no pedal board and a hand full of stops. It was common in the 19th century to refer to reed organs as parlor organs, cottage organs or reed organs.
Later newspaper reports lamented that Baltimore had no concert pipe organ and thus could not attract famous organists. There was a small Pomplitz organ in the Academy of music, and a used instrument in the concert/practice room of the Handel singing society.
For some years the Sun paper complained that Baltimore had no sizable concert organ. They especially questioned the Peabody, which otherwise was well respected, but did not posses a pipe organ.
The Adam Stein 2 manual instrument was not of concert size and the Sun reporter commented on this.
In 1904 the organ was sold to the Maryland Avenue Presbyterian church. (Sun paper 9/3/1904 pg. 6) to make room for a three manual Hutchings organ at the Peabody.

In the late 1950s Maryland Avenue Presbyterian sold their building to an auto dealership and moved to the suburbs. No mention of the organ going to their new location, and the church building was quickly demolished by the auto dealer.