New York, NY
Chelsea Methodist Church (a.k.a. Broadway Temple Methodist Church)


Builder:		Skinner Organ Company
  Year:			1929
  Opus:			804
No. manuals:		4
No. stops:		70
No. ranks:		68

Specification

The organ was not built.  See commentary below the stoplist.
Great
	16'	Bourdon			PED	(conjecture)
	8'	Principal
	8'	Clarabella
	8'	Erzahler
	4'	Octave
	4'	Flute Harmonique
	2 2/3'	Twelfth
	2'	Fifteenth
	V	Harmonics
	16'	Posaune
	8'	Trumpet
	4'	Clarion
Swell
	16'	Bourdon
	8'	Open Diapason
	8'	Clarabella
	8'	Rohr Flute
	8'	Salicional
	8'	Voix Celeste
	8'	Echo Viole
	8'	Flauto Dolce
	8'	Flute Celeste tc
	4'	Octave
	4'	Flute Triangulaire
	4'	Violina
	2'	Flautino
	IV	Cornet
	V	Mixture
	16'	Posaune
	8'	Trumpet
	8'	Oboe
	8'	Vox Humana
	4'	Clarion
		Tremolo
Choir
	16'	Gamba
	8'	Open Diapason
	8'	Gamba
	8'	Orchestral Flute
	8'	Dulciana
	8'	Unda Maris		tc
	4'	Gambette
	4'	Flauto Traverso
	2 2/3'	Nazard
	2'	Piccolo
	1 3/5'	Tierce
	8'	Clarinet
	8'	Orchestral Oboe
		Tremolo
Solo
	8'	Stentorphone
	8'	Flauto Mirabilis
	8'	Gross Gamba
	8'	Gamba Celeste
	4'	Orchestral Flute
	8'	Tuba Mirabilis
	8'	French Horn
	8'	English Horn
	4'	Tuba Clarion
		Tremolo
Pedal (mostly conjecture)
	32'	Bourdon
	16'	Open Diapason
	16'	Contra Bass
	16'	Bourdon			12
	16'	Gamba			CH
	16'	Echo Lieblich		SW
	8'	Octave			12
	8'	Gedeckt			12
	8'	Cello			12
	8'	Still Gedeckt		SW
	4'	Flute			12
	32'	Bombarde
	16'	Trombone		12
	16'	Waldhorn		SW
	8'	Tromba			12
	4'	Clarion			12


Source: Allen Kinzey.

Notes: According to From Abyssinian to Zion:  A Guide to Manhattan's Houses of Worship, "The 12-story apartment buildings that flank the modest Broadway Temple Methodist Church at 4111 Broadway were supposed to have been mere bookend pedestals for a skyscraper with a revolving electric cross rising 725 feet into the sky, an auditorium seating several thousand, a social hall for 1,200, a pool and gymnasium, and more than 400 hotel rooms and apartments.  This marvelously mad project was the brainchild of the Rev. Christian F. Reisner, pastor of the Chelsea Methodist Episcopal Church.

When the church's former location was required by the George Washington Bridge, this "was Reisner's cue to undertake a 'magnificent advertisement of God's business.'  The apartments opened in 1927, followed the next year by the social hall, gymnasium and bowling alley.  But, the depression put an end to the greater scheme.  Reisner's successor oversaw the construction in 1952 of a three-story sanctuary by the architects of the Empire State Building."

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