South Congregational Church
198 So. Broadway
Lawrence,
MA
01843 US
Organ ID: 71095
Church closed in 2015. Now a Hispanic 7th Day Adventist Church.
I saw the instrument once but did not hear it. Organ is in Chambers in the front chancel. 3-man Laws Austin console on south side of chancel
from Robert J Reich: pipe organs of greater Lawrence
Organized 1868; 1st bldg. 1868, 66 Turnpike (now Broadway), small, rebuilt into a barn still extant on Andover St; 2nd bldg. 1875 198 Broadway, burned 1896; 3rd bldg. 1896 burned 1939; 4th bldg. 1939 brick "colonial". Reed organ until 1901. S 1st organ: Odell 1867 #59 from Winsted, Conn., bought in 1901 from E. W. Lane for $950. S 2nd organ: Laws, 1929, 3m, Odell rebuilt and enlarged. *S 3rd organ: Laws, 1939, put together from salvageable parts of previous organ and various other old organs; new Swell and Great chests installed by Williams c1968. Great partially revoiced 1975 by AOC. All of the Great Principal stops are derived from one set of bad open diapason pipes and no improvement is possible without providing pipes and chest space for these stops.