Pipe Organ Database

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Hook & Hastings (Opus 1365, 1887)

Location:

First Universalist Church (Church of the Good Shepherd)
Lawrence, MA US
Organ ID: 14748

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Unitarian, Universalist, Unitarian-Universalist
  • The organ is no longer a complete instrument; dispersed/parted out.
  • The organ's condition is unknown.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Andrew Scanlon on July 10, 2022.

Technical Details:

  • Chests: Slider
  • 2 manuals. 20 registers.
All:
  • Chest Type(s): Slider chests
  • Position: In a case at the front of the room.
We received the most recent update for this division from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Main:
  • Manuals: 2
  • Registers: 20
  • Position: Keydesk attached.
  • Key Action: Mechanical connection from key to chest (tracker, sticker or mix).
  • Stop Action: Mechanical connection between stop control and chest.
  • Console Style: Traditional style with a keyboard cover that can be lifted to form a music rack.
  • Stop Controls: Drawknobs in horizontal rows on terraced/stepped jambs.
  • Swell Control Type: Balanced swell shoes/pedals.
  • Pedalboard Type: Flat straight pedalboard.
We received the most recent update for this console from Database Manager on May 13, 2018.
Andrew Scanlon on July 10, 2022:

from "Organs of Greater Lawrence" by Robert J Reich

Church Organized 1847; bldg. 1852, enlarged 1865; united with Unitarian Church 1959 in Universalist bldg.; built new church in Andover c1968, sold it c1975, bought old club bldg. 1985. Another source gives the date of organization as 1837 and the first building as 1838. * 1st organ: 1855, paid $350 for the organ hired. * 2nd organ: 1860. SP 3rd organ: Hook & Hastings #1365 1887, 2m, 14r. S 4th organ: W. W. Laws 1930, electrification with tonal changes, $5000; partially utilized in organ in new Andover church; some organ parts remained in old bldg. which was bought by city of Lawrence and later sold to a new Hispanic Primitive Methodist church.

We received the most recent update for this note from Andrew Scanlon on July 10, 2022.
Database Manager on December 31, 2007:

Updated through online information from James R. Stettner. -- This organ was electrified by William W. Laws of Beverly, MA in 1930 with some minor tonal changes/additions. When the Lawrence congregation merged with the Andover, MA congregation at a new edifice in Andover, the organ was taken along and a "new" organ built by Roy E.W. Carlson & Co. of Magnolia, MA, retaining much of the existing pipework and the 1930 Laws "Austin-style" console. The building was later sold to the North Boston Korean United Methodist congregation.

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

Exterior: Photograph from an archival source: Queen City MA, submitted by Andrew Scanlon. Taken approx. Early 20th C

Exterior: Photograph from an archival source: Historic postcard, Queen City Massachusetts, submitted by Andrew Scanlon. Taken approx. Early 20th C

Exterior: Photograph from an archival source: Historic postacrd, Queen City Massachusetts, submitted by Andrew Scanlon. Taken approx. Early 20th C

Exterior: Photograph by Andrew Scanlon . Taken on 2022-07-10

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