Cole Church Organ Co.
1900ca.

Originally Cole Church Organ Co.

First Universalist / Gleason Memorial Universalist / Bethel Armenian Congregational

Pleasant Street near corner of Broadway/Rte 28
Methuen, MA, US

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Instrument ID: 2123 ● Builder ID: 1328 ● Location ID: 2055
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Andrew Scanlon on February 9th, 2021:

The building was located near Methuen Square on Pleasant Street near the corner of Broadway/Route 28.

Church no longer exists, demolished around 1971. The following note from Robert Reich of Andover Organ company:

Church Organized 1824; bldg. c1836, remodelled c1877 and again early in the new century; church disbanded 1934, bldg. sold 1945 to Bethel Armenian Cong; latter church combined in 1965 with Mt. Ararat Armenian Cong. in Salem, N.H. and the bldg. was sold and converted to apartments.
1st organ: Appleton, 1860.
2nd organ: Cole, 2m about 12r: sold and removed 1971, electrified and partially installed in a residence in Acton, Mass.


Database Manager on June 8th, 2009:

Updated through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- The organ was in a case in the front, left corner of the sanctuary. The case was white with two rounded towers at each corner containing an indistinguishable number of string-scale dummy pipes, and having a center flat of 9 pipes, likely at least partially from the Great 8' Open Diapason. Unknown when the congregation was renamed Gleason Memorial Universalist. But it was sold to Bethel Armenian Congregational in 1949. Ca. 1968 they merged with Mt. Ararat Congregational of adjacent Salem, NH at the Salem building. The Methuen property was sold in 1971 for commercial purposes (conversion into apartments). The organ was sold to a private party, removed, electrified, and partly installed in a residence in Acton, MA.


Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:

Builder's Nameplate: Probably by James Cole; records say just 'Cole'


Database Manager on October 30th, 2004:

Moved to Acton, MA and electrified.

Related Instrument Entries: Unknown Builder (1971)

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