Roosevelt Pipe Organ Builders

Hilborne Roosevelt (1849-1886) and his younger brother, Frank Roosevelt (1862-1895), organized the Roosevelt Pipe Organ Builders in the 1880s. The brothers built some of the largest organs in the United States during their career, and many today are prized for their quality and tone. The Roosevelts were among the first to introduce electricity into organ building.

Roosevelt organ installations include the following:

• Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Syracuse, New York (1892)
• Episcopal Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City, New York
• Trinity Church, New York, New York
• Church of the Holy Communion, New York, New York
• Old First Reformed Church, Brooklyn New York
• Christ Church, Glendale, Ohio
• Grace Protestant Episcopal Church, New York, New York
• First Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, NY
• First Presbyterian Church, New York, New York^[1]
• Grace & St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Maryland
• First Baptist Church in America, Providence, Rhode Island (Opus 150)^[2]

• Trinity United Methodist Church, 1820 Broadway, Denver Colorado 1888 (Op. 380)
• First Methodist Church, Boulder, Colorado (Opus 382)^[3]
• Memorial Presbyterian Church, St. Augustine, Florida (1890)^[4]
• St, James Roman Catholic Church, Chicago, Illinois (1891)^[5]
• St. Peter's Episcopal Church, New York (Opus 515 - 1892)^[6]
• La Compañía de Jesús Church, Quito, Ecuador, 1888 Roosevelt organ 1104 pipes.

References

First Baptist Church, Nashville, TN Opus 291 (1885)