Frank Roosevelt
Opus 380, 1888

Paul R. Marchesano on July 21st, 2025:
Previously misidentified as by Odell. [The misconception] originated from a misreading of the cryptic "Radzinsky, 1910" reference in the March 2nd, 2014, note. "Radzinsky, 1910" is Charles A. Radzinsky, "Organ Builders of New York, 1800 to 1909," The New Music Review and Church Music Review 9, no. 99 (February 1910): 165–68. On page 167 [which can and should be viewed at HathiTrust, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112102033203&seq=153], the organ at "Trinity M. E. Church, Denver, Colo. (4 mans. and 68 stops)" is correctly attributed to Frank Roosevelt (not to the Odell firm, which Radzinsky discussed in the facing left column of the page).

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Database Manager on May 24th, 2018:
Updated by Samuel J. Chizmar, who has heard or played the organ. <br> I am a substitute organist at Trinity United Methodist and play this instrument often. Trinity Church seats 1,140 and was designed by architect Robert Roeschlaub to be a civic auditorium for the City of Denver as well as a church: i.e., a speaker at the pulpit can easily be heard from any seat in the auditorium, but it is totally lacking in reverberation. Trinity hosts other music groups such as Central City Opera, The Colorado Mormon Chorale, and Colorado Repetory Singers. Recent speakers at Trinity have been Madeleine Albright, Dan Rather and Al Franken.

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Database Manager on December 7th, 2013:
Updated through online information from Kem Barney. -- A.R. Doud was not the father of Mamie Eisenhower. Her father's name was John Sheldon Doud (per Wiklipedia) A. R. Doud was a long-time member and historian at Trinity Methodist Church, Denver.

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Database Manager on August 6th, 2013:
Updated through online information from Norman Sutphin. -- The OSI console installed by Morel and Associates in 2009 is the third replacement console for this organ.

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Database Manager on April 28th, 2013:
Updated through online information from Steven E. Lawson. -- From 1998 OHS Convention Atlas: "The organ has undergone some changes over the years. ... "In 1936, the Roosevelt Swell 8' Vox Humana was replaced with a Möller set; at the same time, the Great and Swell 4' Clarions, the Solo 8' Cor Anglais and 4' [Tuba] Clarion, and the Pedal 16' Trombone and 16' Basson [sic], were disconnected. The contract for this work was signed for the church by A. R. Dowd, Mamie Dowd Eisenhower's father. Two years later, Fred Meunier installed "sweeter" American pipes recycled from the George Foot organ at St. John's Cathedral [Denver] when it was replaced with a new W. W. Kimball organ. The Great 8' Trumpet, $75; Swell 16' Contra Fagotto, $75; 8' Cornopean, $60; 8' Oboe, $65; and Choir 8' Clarinet, $60, were purchased for the indicated prices. With the single exception of the 8' Tuba Mirabilis, the "blazing, metallic" Cavaillé-Coll reeds disappeared, as did all of the Roosevelt reeds. "In 1964, ... Roosevelt reeds removed in 1938, the Swell 8' Cornopean and 4' Clarion, the Great 4' Clarion, and the Choir 8' Clarinet, were replaced with new pipes made and voiced by A. R. Schopp's Sons, Inc. The missing Cavaillé-Coll Solo 4' Tuba Clarion and Great 8' Trumpet were replaced with new pipes made and voiced by Harpfer & Ehrman, pipemakers of Boulay, France. The Solo 8' Cor Anglais, originally a free reed, was replaced with new pipes made and voiced by Geisecke." -- Console has 61/32 compasses

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Database Manager on November 10th, 2009:
Updated through online information from Bryan Dunnewald. -- Renovations Finished Sep. 2009. Rededication by James Ruth. 150th anniversary concert by Sophie Choplin in Nov. 2009.

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Database Manager on August 14th, 2009:
Updated through online information from Bryan Dunnewald. -- New OSI console in June '09. New Festival Bombarde: July '09.

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Database Manager on February 28th, 2009:
Updated through online information from Bryan Dunnewald.

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Database Manager on February 25th, 2009:
Updated through online information from Bryan Dunnewald. -- Going to get its fifth console. Being rebuilt and enlarged by Rick Morell and Associates. Sweet Sound, not many strings. Getting a festival trumpet and other pipes, and possibly 32' bombard.

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Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Status Note: There 1996

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Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:
Electrified and altered by several builders. A note (by Jim Suttie?) on Roosevelt list says exists, altered. Renovated by I. Morel c. 1969. Chancel. Ash Casework. Cost $30,000. Compass: 58/30. Audsley case design. Originally had water motor. Altered by Moller (old pipework preserved) [was this the 1969 renovation?]. Some changes have been reversed.