John Wessell & William Brys
1985

Originally built by Reuben Midmer Sr. as a sizeable two-manual organ for the Hanson Place Methodist Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, New York. This organ was replaced by a 43-register three-manual Hook & Hastings No. 1303, 1886 with the Midmer taken in trade and installed here in Rutland that year, ostensibly with a mechanical blowing plant. The Midmer was electrified by Arthur Kohl of Rochester, New York in 1941 with an electric blower and possible with tonal changes; heavily rebuilt by Wessel & Brys ca. 1985, and connected to the new three-manual gallery console of a hybrid digital Wicks 3-rank Sanctuary organ in 1996. The new Wicks console contains additional preparations for gallery organ stops, no doubt also intended to be imitation. Vermont organ historian Ed Boadway wrote of this organ after the Wessel work, that over the years in Rutland the organ had been "...generally so mistreated that only a few Midmer pipes exist behind the large and unusual black walnut Midmer case front."