

Organ in original church located on 72nd Street, west of Broadway:Ģ manuals, 15 registers, 13 stops, 13 ranks Universals affecting all stops and couplers to first 6 pistons on any manualĤ manuals, 96 registers, 61 stops, 69 ranks Generals to all stops & couplers (1-6 dup. Great Organ (Manual II) – 61 notes (7-1/4" and 5-1/2" wind pressure)Īffecting Pedal stops & couplers (1-6 dup. Also installed was a new Solid State relay and switching system, a new Solid State capture combination action, and a new 6.5 HP Ventus blower.
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The Casavant console received an overhaul with new drawknob terraces and name boards, new all-electric drawknob units and tilting tablets, new manual piston rails and pistons, new toe pistons, and a new pedalboard. Konzelman rescaled and revoiced many ranks, added new pipework, releathered chests, and rebuilt the wind regulators and the electro-pneumatic Swell and Choir expression mechanisms. The present organ, originally built in 1950 by Casavant Frères of Canada, was rebuilt in 2005 by James A. Solid State combination action (64 levels)ģ manuals, 55 registers, 40 stops, 46 ranks Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada – Opus 2018 (1950) The following Christmas, just 32 years after the original church was opened, Monsignor Guinan celebrated the first Mass in the current Church of the Blessed Sacrament. On September 8, 1919, the new school on 70th Street, behind the present church, was opened. That same year, the cornerstones of the new church and school were laid. The old Blessed Sacrament church was torn down in 1917. Guinan, at once took steps to bring Father Myhan’s plans to fruition. Plans had been drawn and virtually completed when Father Myhan died suddenly on Octoat age 52 after serving as pastor for only two years. In designing Blessed Sacrament, Steinback was inspired by Sainte Chapelle in Paris, a small gothic chapel built by Louis IX in the 1240s to house relics from the Holy Land. Steinbach, a 37-year-old graduate of Columbia University School of Architecture, was chosen as the architect for the new church and school. Father Myhan almost immediately undertook the building of a new church and school. Myhan succeeded Monsignor Taylor as Blessed Sacrament’s second pastor. Father Taylor, who was named a monsignor in February 1914, died in August 1914 at age 61 after serving as Blessed Sacrament’s pastor for 27 years. Vincent.Īs the upper west side grew as a residential district, the old Blessed Sacrament church, which held 800 people, proved inadequate. In 1903, Blessed Sacrament’s parochial school was opened under the charge of the Sisters of Charity of Mount St. Archbishop Corrigan dedicated the church the following month.

Ground was broken for that first church building in July 1887, and the following Christmas it was opened for services. The first Church of the Blessed Sacrament was located on 71st Street, just west of the current church, and was a red brick Italianate building designed by Napoleon Le Brun & Sons. Father Taylor’s devotion to the Blessed Sacrament is the source for the parish’s name, although the Archbishop suggested that the parish might be dedicated to St. Father Taylor transformed the Havemeyer's stable, formerly located on the north side of West 72nd Street, and the first Mass was on Easter Sunday, 1887. Taylor, a 34-year-old priest appointed by Archbishop Corrigan. The Parish of the Blessed Sacrament was founded in 1887 by Father Matthew A.
