Reuben Midmer
1884

The organ was installed in 1884 as part of a rearward expansion of the 1840 building which included an altar alcove, baptismal tank, organ chamber, and choir platform. The organ replaced a small organ first mentioned in the church minutes in 1855 as needing to be insured for $500, (this would have covered a one-manual instrument, likely located in the spacious rear gallery). The poplar case front was finished in cherry to match the new woodwork. The organ cost $2,000, and was the second Midmer in town, the first installed in 1878 (Christ Episcopal). Midmer organs were tonally decent, but the quality was rather cheap as were their prices-- which is why there are so few Midmer organ's surviving to the present day. The organ front was painted white and the facade restencilled as part of an architect-designed colonial-revival redecoration of the interior around 1920. The organ was replaced in 1950 by a new Moller two-manual of 13 ranks, retaining the Midmer facade woodwork and pipes, still wearing their colonial revival redecoration (now over 100 years old). The metal Midmer expression pedal remains in the church's curio cabinet of historic artifacts, and one toeboard lies on the floor of the under-church crawl space which houses the Moller's Kinetic blower.