Jim Stettner on October 18th, 2021:
Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -- The dedication brochure for the Berkshire Organ Co. instrument which succeeded this in 1985 contained a good history of the church and its instruments. The portion dealing with the Frazee is paraphrased below. The first church built in 1826, was extensively rebuilt and modernized in 1898, and furnished with Geo. S. Hutchings No. 441, two manuals and 20 ranks. The church was destroyed in a devastating fire on October 4, 1924. The cornerstone was laid for the new building on a year later to the day on October 4, 1925 for a new neo-colonial church designed by architects Frohman, Robb, and Little of Boston. The Frazee Organ Co. installed a partially unitized organ of 13 ranks in the new church. The choir was located in a second-floor gallery above and behind the pulpit. The Frazee was in a chamber to the left of the choir gallery and speaking through a grill into the choir space. Having no tonal egress into the nave, the organ was ineffective. The organ had nothing above 4' except a unit Gedackt up through 2'. Seven ranks were recycled by Berkshire in 1985, including a pair of rather nice strings, and several offset bass chests which became the electric pedal division of the Berkshire. The former Frazee chamber is now the organist's office. The architect designed a sham organ facade that is installed on the exterior wall, front and center in the choir gallery. The 5-section facade is reminiscent of English and American organ cases of the 18th and early 19th century, surprisingly good for the period. It was only marred by out of scale facade pipes, too many and of narrow string scale, with extreme forced length. The new Berkshire was placed in a chamber newly constructed behind the architectural facade and with new speaking basses in flats 1,3,5, with the original architect dummies in the stacked flats 2 and 4.

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Jim Stettner on October 16th, 2021:
This was the parish's 3rd building - built after devastating fire on October 2, 1924 which destroyed the previous edifice and 1898 Hutchings organ. The Frazee was installed in a front gallery which had an organ facade front and center, but it was for show only. The pipes were in a left-side chamber with the console in a pit in front of the chamber and the organist facing across the front gallery toward the choir which faced the console. The Frazee was replaced by a 'new' organ in 1984, and some of the Frazee pipework was incorporated into the Berkshire Organ Co. instrument. The former Frazee chamber became the Music Director's office.