New Organs

March 18, 2016, marked an important milestone in the history of the pipe organ in Chicago. Chicago was founded in 1837, and the first traceable organ was installed in the city that same year by Henry Erben of New York City, in St. James Episcopal Church (now the Cathedral). Nearly 180 years later, the largest organ in the city was dedicated in concert just a few short blocks away at historic Fourth Presbyterian Church.

Berghaus Pipe Organ Builders, Bellwood, Illinois

Zion Lutheran Church (WELS), Columbus, Wisconsin

A. E. Schlueter Pipe Organ Company, Lithonia, Georgia

First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Galveston Island, Texas

Parkey OrganBuilders, Duluth, Georgia, Opus 15

Ebenezer Lutheran Church,

Greensboro, North Carolina

Messiah Lutheran Church, 

Seattle, Washington

Noack Organ Company, Georgetown, Massachusetts

Richard Houghten,
Milan, Michigan
Church of the Incarnation,
Dallas, Texas

C. B. Fisk, Inc., Gloucester, Massachusetts, Opus 146

Chapel of the Holy Spirit, 

Christ Church, Glendale, Ohio

Kegg Pipe Organ Builders, Hartville, Ohio

Our Lady of Fatima Church, Lafayette, Louisiana 

Mander Organs, 

London, England

Bigelow & Co. Organ Builders, American Fork, Utah

First United Methodist Church, Salt Lake City, Utah

Dobson Pipe Organ Builders, Lake City, Iowa, Opus 92

The Steve and Judy Turner Recital Hall, Vanderbilt University,

Quimby Pipe Organs, Inc.,

Warrensburg, Missouri

Catalina United Methodist Church, Tucson, Arizona

Schoenstein & Co., 

Benicia, California

Dahlgren Chapel, 

Taylor and Boody Organbuilders Staunton, Virginia

Opus 70, 2015

Virginia Theological Seminary Alexandria, Virginia

Fratelli Ruffatti, Padua, Italy

St. Mel’s Cathedral, 

Longford, Ireland

Randall Dyer & Associates,

Jefferson City, Tennessee

Austin Organs, 

Hartford, Connecticut

Opus 2344 (1961 and 2014)

Peragallo Pipe Organ Company, Paterson, New Jersey

Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph, Brooklyn, New York

Orgues Létourneau,

St-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

Opus 127

David E. Wallace & Co. 

Opus 35/35a  (2003 & 2012)

Patrick J. Murphy & Associates in Stowe, Pennsylvania, recently completed a major renovation of the organ at Church of the Covenant, Scranton, Pennsylvania. The 3-manual, 37-stop, 56-rank instrument recasts the existing 1960s-era Schlicker with a new Swell division, revoiced Great and Positive fluework, new chorus reeds throughout, and a new PJM Signature console.