Pipe Organ Database

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Hook & Hastings (Opus 1767, 1897)

Location:

St. Paul's Episcopal Church
North Main St.
Gardner, MA US
Sanctuary; front
Organ ID: 14714

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Episcopal and Anglican Churches
  • The organ is no longer at this location; destroyed, dispersed, relocated or taken in trade.
  • The organ's condition is not playable.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Jim Stettner on January 24, 2023.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Information unknown or not applicable
  • 2 manuals. 14 registers.
All:
We received the most recent update for this division from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Main:
  • Manuals: 2
  • Registers: 14
We received the most recent update for this console from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Jim Stettner on January 24, 2023:

A .pdf church history document linked from the parish website states, "On March 22, 1898 a meeting was held and over $1,000 was raised for a new pipe organ. It was a first class instrument with about 400 pipes and was produced by Hook & Hastings. Col. L. G. McKnight presided at the meeting." The last service at the North Main Street church is held December 29, 1907. The next church is completed in 1909, and the first service is held February 1. It is not known if the Hook & Hastings was relocated to the new edifice at 96 Cross Street.

We received the most recent update for this note from Jim Stettner on January 24, 2023.
Database Manager on February 28, 2005:

Identified from company publications as edited and expanded in The Hook Opus List 1829-1935, ed. William T. Van Pelt (Organ Historical Society, 1991).

We received the most recent update for this note from Database Manager on April 09, 2020.

Instrument Images:

Church exterior: Photograph from an archival source: Church website; history page, submitted by Jim Stettner. Taken approx. before 1907

Sanctuary interior with organ at front, right: Photograph from an archival source: Church website; History page, submitted by Jim Stettner. Taken approx. Before 1907

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