The 1912 Estey organ at the Uniting Church, Scone Historical and Technical Documentation by Kelvin Hastie Electrified 1984 Brown & Arkley, SydneyĢ manuals, 9 speaking stops, 7 couplers, electro-pneumatic action

The following specification is from the Archives of the Estey Pipe Organ Museum.ST ANDREW'S UNITING CHURCH SCONE Uniting (formerly St Andrew's Presbyterian) Church Main Street, Scone Estey Organ Co., Vermont, USA, 1912 The enlarged organ was dedicated at a special service on Sunday night, September 29, 1929. In 1929, two stops (Aeoline and Vox Humana) were added to the Swell, and a 20-note set of Chimes was added to the Great, for a consideration of $1,775.

At an unknown time, the congregation became known as New Life United Methodist Church.įollowing the fire in 1920 that destroyed the 1914 Estey organ, the congregation commissioned Estey to build a new organ that was identical to the previous organ. Over the years the demographics of the neighborhood have changed. The building was not a total loss and was rebuilt by the next year. Despite efforts by the pastor and a score of neighbors to save portable items, a costly Bible on the pulpit was destroyed, as were a $2,000 memorial window and the organ. On Monday morning, November 11, 1920, an overheated furnace caused a fire at the chancel end of the church building. The completed edifice, reported variously to cost $15,000 or $16,000, was celebrated over the course of a week, culminating with the official dedicatory service led by Bishop Luther B. On August 19, 1912, ground was broken for a frame building designed in what was described as the 'Spanish Baroque' style. Mower, plans were made for a larger building on the same site. At that time the society became known as the Shaw Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church.

In 1895 the first church edifice was erected on the corner of Shaw Avenue and 5th Street. The new Methodist society met in a rented building on the corner of Suedeker Avenue (now 78th Street) and 6th Street, let by the Rev. Union Course was a famous horse racing course that operated from 1821-1872 by 1888 the race course was subdivided into lots for housing. Woodhaven Methodist Church was organized on March 25, 1892, as the Methodist Episcopal Church of Union Course, Queens, Long Island.

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