click on images to enlarge Third Church of Christ, Scientist 150 Kenilworth Place Brooklyn, N.Y. 11210 Organ Specifications: 150 Kenilworth Place (since 1982) • unknown 261 East 21st Street (c.1928-1982) ► III/40 Hook & Hastings, Op. 2561 (1928) The Third Church of Christ, Scientist of Brooklyn dates from the 1920s. For six decades, the society was located on East 21st Street near Albemarle Road in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn. As designed in 1927 by Cherry & Matz of New York City, the edifice was a Greek Revival-style building that could accomodate 1000 people in the auditorium. By the 1980s, the society had diminished in numbers and the building and property were sold, in 1982, to the Flatbush Seventh-day Adventist Church. The Third Church now maintains a Reading Room at 150 Kenilworth Place.               Organ in edifice located at 261 East 21st Street: Hook & Hastings Boston, Mass. – Opus 2561 (1928) Electro-pneumatic action 3 manuals, 44 stops, 40 ranks For their new edifice, the Third Church contracted with Hook & Hastings of Boston to build the organ. Pipes and mechanisms of the main divisions were installed in a chamber behind the Readers' Desk and spoke through a large plaster grill. The three-manual rocker tablet console was situated on the main floor, to the right of the Reader's Desk. Hook & Hastings published a catalog in 1927 that included a drawing of the console for this organ.                 Great Organ (Manual II) – 61 notes, enclosed with Choir 16   Open Diapason 73 4   Flute Harmonic 61 8   Diapason F 61 2 2/3   Twelfth 61 8   Diapason M — 2   Fifteenth 61 8   Doppel Flute 61 8   Trumpet 61 8   Gamba 61   Tremolo 8   Viol d'Amour 61   Chimes EC 4   Octave 61                       Swell Organ (Manual III) – 61 notes, enclosed 16   Bourdon 73 4   Flute Traverso 73 8   Open Diapason 73 4   Violina 73 8   Viol d'Orchestre 73   Dolce Cornet III ranks 183 8   Vox Celeste [TC] 61 8   Cornopean 73 8   Salicional 73 8   Oboe 73 8   Gedeckt 73 8   Vox Humana 61 8   Aeoline 73   Tremolo                 Choir Organ (Manual I) – 61 notes, enclosed 8   String Diapason 73 2   Piccolo 61 8   Melodia 73 8   Clarinet 73 8   Dulciana 73   Tremolo 8   Unda Maris [TC] 61   Harp 4   Flute d'Amour 73   Harp Damper Off                 Echo Organ (playable on Manual II) – 61 notes, enclosed 8   Wald Flute 73 8   Cor Anglais 73 8   Muted Viol 73   Tremolo 8   Echo Celeste [TC] 61   Chimes 20 tubes 4   Lieblich Gedeckt 73   Chimes Damper Off                 Pedal Organ – 32 notes 32   Open Diapason (wood) 12 16   Lieblich Gedeckt SW 16   Open Diapason [unit] 44 8   Bass Flute — 16   Violone [unit] 44 8   Violoncello — 16   Bourdon 32 16   Trumpet [ext. GT] 12                 Couplers     Great to Pedal 8'   Swell to Choir 16', 8', 4'     Swell to Pedal 8', 4'   Swell to Swell 16', 4'     Choir to Pedal 8'   Choir to Choir 16', 4'     Echo to Pedal 8'   Echo to Echo 4'     Swell to Great 16', 8', 4', 2-2/3', 1-3/5'   Swell Release     Choir to Great 8', 4'   Great/Echo On & Off                 Adjustable Combinations     Pistons No. 1-2-3-4-5-6-0 affecting Swell Organ     Pistons No. 1-2-3-4-5-0 affecting Great Organ     Pistons No. 1-2-3-4-0 affecting Choir Organ     Pistons No. 1-2-3-4 affecting Entire Organ     General Release       Adjustor                           Pedal Movements     Balanced Swell Pedal   All Couplers     Balanced Choir & Great Pedal   Release Octave Couplers     Balanced Echo Pedal   Great to Pedal Reversible     Crescendo Pedal   Sforzando Reversible                 Sources:      Trupiano, Larry. Specifications of Hook & Hastings Organ, Op. 2561 (1928).      Van Pelt, William T., comp. The Hook Opus List, 1829-1916 in Facsimile. Richmond: The Organ Historical Society, 1991. Photos:      The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection: architect's rendering of Third Church of Christ, Scientist (c.1927).      Google.com Street View: exterior.      Van Pelt, William T., comp. The Hook Opus List, 1829-1916 in Facsimile: console of Hook & Hastings Organ, Op. 2561 (1928).       | NYC AGO Home Page | Back to NYC Organ Project List |