While the First and Second Congregational congregations merged in 1920, using the larger First Congregational building, the Skinner organ was not relocated to First Church until 1927, and slightly altered by Blashfield (of Utica, N.Y.) in the process. The Skinner was rebuilt by Homer Blanchard in 1962 and replaced by Hal Gober in 2004, reusing the Estey facade. The First Church Estey was moved to the Methodist Church of Oberlin where it replaced Lyon & Healy No. 216, 1907, a two-manual tracker. The Estey was ultimately replaced by John Brombaugh Op. 15 in 1974. Somewhere along the line, the Methodists built a new building, located adjacent to Oberlin College.

The neo-classic case shown in the post-1927 photo is the original Estey case of 1908, slightly redecorated, still extant and reused in the new Gober organ with a new display of facade pipes.

Updated through online information from William Dunklin. -- The organ was renovated in 1962 by Homer Blanchard. In 2004 it was replaced by a Gober organ, which utilized parts of the Skinner case and 7 ranks of Skinner pipes. The church's website refers to the Skinner organ as opus 230 from 1929. This may be an error.

Identified through information adapted from E. M. Skinner/Aeolian-Skinner Opus List, by Sand Lawn and Allen Kinzey (Organ Historical Society, 1997), and included here through the kind permission of Sand Lawn:
Originally built for Second Congregational Church, relocated here in 1927 when the congregations merged.