Pipe Organ Database

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Unknown Builder (1905)

Location:

First Methodist Episcopal Church
4th St. & Byers
Joplin, MO US
Sanctuary; front
Organ ID: 72923

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Status and Condition:

  • This instrument's location type is: Methodist Churches
  • The organ has an unknown or unreported status.
  • The organ's condition is unknown.
We received the most recent update for this instrument's status from Jim Stettner on March 13, 2023.
Jim Stettner on March 13, 2023:

This entry represents the installation of a new organ. Identified from a June 29, 2019 article about the church in The Joplin Globe: "The church has a large Wicks pipe organ installed in 1942 with the casework and chimes retained from the original 1905 organ."

We received the most recent update for this note from Jim Stettner on March 13, 2023.

Instrument Images:

Church exterior: Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner. Taken approx. ca. 1906

Church exterior: Photograph from an archival source: Vintage postcard, submitted by Jim Stettner. Taken approx. ca. 1910's