Pipe Organ Database

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Hale Brothers (1834)

Location:

St. Luke's Episcopal Church
Newtown, PA US
Sanctuary
Organ ID: 71436

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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 unknown.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Jim Stettner on July 25, 2022.
Jim Stettner on July 25, 2022:

This entry represents the first installation of a new organ. According to the parish website on the Building History page, "1834 - Pipe organ, the first in Newtown, was installed."

The parish website Our History page further expounds, *"A pipe organ, the first in Newtown, was installed in 1834. It was built by the Hale Brothers in the house at the southeast corner of South State Street and Centre Avenue, now Thyme Restaurant. The organ was installed for $200 which also included lessons for the organist. That original organ was replaced in 1905; although the facade pipes remain." *

We received the most recent update for this note from Jim Stettner on July 25, 2022.

Instrument Images:

Church and Parish Hall: Photograph from an archival source: Parish archives; posted on Facebook, submitted by Jim Stettner. Taken approx. ca. 1890's

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