Wesley United Methodist Church,
Amherst, Mass.

The people of WESLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH were prudent in their stewardship and planning to include in their design and construction of a new church building the relocation and refurbishment of the pipe organ that had served them in the North Pleasant Street sanctuary.

Actually, the history of this instrument begins in Boston in 1898 with its construction by Jesse Woodberry and Company for St. Thomas R. C. Church, Providence, R.I. In 1978, the Stuart Organ Company of Aldenville, Mass., rebuilt the Woodberry chassis, applied new casework, and incorporated pipework from both the Woodberry organ and from Wesley’s previous instrument, a 1907 Estey organ built in Brattleboro, into their Opus 20R, of 2 manuals and Pedals, 13 ranks of pipes, and mechanical action throughout. Our Firm is pleased and proud to have preserved this instrument for decades of future musical service by its relocation into the new sanctuary, with a new blower, with mechanical refurbishment, and with tonal revoicing for the new space, with outstanding acoustics!