Unknown Builder
1944

Jim Stettner on February 20th, 2024:
Updated through online information from Shirley Kuhn, Organist & Choirmaster: In 1914, Calvary Episcopal Church in Tarboro, NC, sold this instrument to St. Paul's Episcopal Church (not St. James) in Wilmington, NC, where it remained in its second home for 30 years. In 1944, this instrument came to Trinity Episcopal Church in Chocowinity, NC, (the second oldest church in the state--1774), presumably donated after "the little brick" church in Wilmington had "failed" and for 19 years the parish house had to be used for worship, until their current church building was completed in 1958. (At Trinity Church in Chocowinity, the organ received a complete restoration in 2008 which included some additions that I will submit fairly soon.)

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Jim Stettner on February 20th, 2024:
Transplanted note from duplicate OHS Database listing. Database Manager on April 29th, 2016: Updated through online information from Joseph Browne. The organ was built for Calvary Episcopal Church in Tarboro, NC. It was later used at Saint Paul's Episcopal Church in Wilmington, NC (not Saint James, as was earlier thought). It was moved to Trinity Episcopal Church in Chocowinity, NC where it is still used regularly today.

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Jim Stettner on February 20th, 2024:
Transplanted note from duplicate Database listing. Database Manager on May 17th, 2006: Referred to in the Stevens records as "the NC church," according to a brochure published by Trinity Church, Chocowinity -- the current owners of the organ. Sold in 1914 to St. James Episcopal, Wilmington, North Carolina; then moved to Trinity Parish in 1944.

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Jim Stettner on February 20th, 2024:
This entry represents the installation of a used organ. Unknown what, if any, tonal and/or mechanical modifications may have been made at the time of installation in 1944.

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Database Manager on May 18th, 2006:
The organ is on the side at floor level at the rear of the room; it is installed in a recessed area with a case front and stencilled façade pipes.

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Database Manager on May 18th, 2006:
According to a brochure published by Trinity in connection with fund-raising for a complete restoration (2005), the organ moved from Calvary Episcopal in Tarboro, NC. to St. Paul's, Wilmington, North Carolina in 1914. St. Paul's then donated to Trinity Church in Chocowinity in 1944.

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Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Façade, pipes and case-work refinished, and bellows re-leathered in 1987 by J. Allen Farmer.

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Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
From Calvary Episcopal, Tarboro, NC (1866); via St. Paul's Episcopal, Wilmington, NC. (1914).