Edwin Lafayette [E. L.] Holbrook
ca. 1852

Identified through on-line information from James R. Stettner. -- Housed in a case with a 3-sectional facade having 11 pipes arranged: 3-5-3. These are all speaking basses of the Great 8' Op. Diapason. An extant photo of the organ in Biddeford shows a dark-colored case, probably faux-grained to resemble walnut or rosewood. At some undocumented point in time, the original, narrow, 25-note pedalboard was replaced with a late 19th-century 27-note flat/parallel pedalboard. The original hitch-down swell shades were crudely converted to balanced. The organ was acquired by the Methodist Church in Orrington, Maine in 1942 for $99.99, and moved there by men of the church. Interestingly, this date overlaps by +/- 42 years a ca. 1865 E. & G.G. Hook organ installed used by Hook & Hastings ca. 1900.