Paul R. Marchesano on February 27th, 2023:
"**The Scottish Rite Organ.**" "The organ being built for the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Maeons, by T. P. Sanborn, of this city, is approaching completion, and next week the work of putting it up in the new temple will begin. It is an organ of twenty-six stops, ten speaking stops in the swell and ten in the great organ. The remaining stops are mechanical-couplers, tremolo and pedal check. All are thorough stops, no partial stops, each going the full register. There are three combination stops—forte, piano and mezzo—the remainder swell pedal. It is an elegant piece of furniture, being finished in Queen Anne style, the case of cherry. Its entire height is thirteen feet, width twelve feet and depth eleven feet. If it bad not been necessary to have consulted space it would have been at least thirty feet high, for appearance sake, which, however, has nothing to do with volume. Although lacking in height, it will, as it has been made especially to fit a space designed for it, be a magnificent piece of furniture, and everyone who has seen it admires its style and finish. The new organ costs $2,700, and will he run by water motor." -- *The Indianapolis Journal*, 10 Nov 1883, Sat • Page 8

---

Paul R. Marchesano on February 27th, 2023:
The centennial history of the organization notes that the room "housed a fine $2700 pipe organ of noo pipes operated by a water n10tor. This organ was given to the Rite by a group of members who called themselves the Organ Society of the Rite." Research by Thad Reynolds of Indianapolis indicates that this organ may have been built by Thomas Prentice Sanborn. -- *2007 OHS Atlas*