First Baptist Church
Vermont and Meridian Streets
Indianapolis,
IN
46204 US
Organ ID: 14288
The church building was finished at a cost of $227,000 and dedicated during the week of Novem.ber 25, 1906. The auditorium seated 1,400. The Hook & Hastings firm. of Boston, Massachusetts, installed its opus 2123, a two -manual, twenty-three-register organ. The instrument apparently had tubular-pneumatic action, because this was noted on the Kinetic blower order on July 27, 1915. The threehorsepower unit for 411 wind pressure cost $196.65 and was shipped on August 15. Perceval Owen played the Hook & Hastings for nearly thirty years and died at the console at age sixty-five on November 28, 1942, having just played "Abide with Me" during a choir rehearsal. -- 2007 OHS Atlas
Replaced by Casavant Frères Op. 2575 when the congregation moved to a new building at 8600 N. College Ave. in 1960.
Identified from company publications as edited and expanded in The Hook Opus List 1829-1935, ed. William T. Van Pelt (Organ Historical Society, 1991).
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