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Early in 2025 the church was closed and the congregation consolidated with another parish. The fate of the building and its contents is now in the hands of the diocese.
In 2024, this parish no longer has a resident priest, is no longer independently active, nor is the building open at any time other than for 8:00 am Mass on Sunday morning. Blessed Sacrament is now affiliated with the St. Jude/St. Brendan parish of Alfred and Almond, with the priest in charge and rectory located in Almond. It has been 30 years since I have been able to gain entrance to the building, so cannot confirm whether the Garret House artifact is in fact still extant.
Updated through online information from Scot Huntington. -- The organ was installed in the center of the rear gallery, extending into the bell tower of the brick building built in 1885. In the late 1960s, the still playable organ was ruined when a parishioner sawed off the keydesk with a chainsaw to permit the installation of a spinet electronic against the case front in the very shallow gallery. At the same time, to reduce drafts from the bell tower, the pedal chest and pipes across the rear of the organ had been removed so a wall could be built across the rear of the organ, thereby partially encapsulating it. What was still evident when I was last saw the organ was the following:
and nos. 7-12 were interspersed with dummies in the metal-pipe central flat.
cross stenciled across the five largest center pipes, against a grayish blue-green ground.
The walls of the building had long ago begun to splay outwards, and iron stabilizer rods were installed to hold the walls together, one of which was directly in front of the organ. Further investigation is required to determine if any remains of this historic instrument are still extant.
Status Note: There 1960
Keydesk gone by c. 1960. Unplayable.
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