Aeolian-Skinner Organ Co.
Opus 956, 1937

The original contract dated Feb. 2, 1937 was for $6,000.00 for delivery on Apr. 30, 1937. On Feb. 4, 1937, a set of Chimes was added for an additional $400.00, the cost to be added to the final of four scheduled payments: signing, ready for factory assembly, delivery, completion.

The 100-seat church is famous for having some of the most beautiful stained-glass windows in the United States, with eleven fabricated by the Tiffany Studios.

Updated through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn:
Replaced 1886 two manual Roosevelt, #353; altered by Potter-Rathbun and by Raymond Whalon.

Updated through online information from John Speller. -- Organ is situated in a chamber on north side of chancel with console detached at north end of nave facing into center aisle. The façade was retained from the previous organ. The previous organ is found on my Roosevelt opus list and was a 2 manual 12 stop tracker instrument by Frank Roosevelt, Op. 353 of 1887. -- Swell has 73-note extension octaves

Status Note: There 1996.

Also known as Berkeley Memorial Church. Altered?