In 2012 the first performance in 38 years was held as the first step in raising the funds needed. In the early 2010s, at the invitation of Astoria residents and musicians Denise Reed and Constance Waisanen, Jason Neumann-Grable, a Hillsboro resident who repairs organs, was contracted to assess the repair needs and bring the organ back to performance-ready status. For the next approximately 35 years the organ was seldom used. In 1974 Trinity Lutheran combined with another Lutheran Church in Astoria, forming Peace Lutheran Church, and sold the building to the Clatsop Community College to be used as a performing arts center, classrooms, and offices. This article is also the source of the above information. NE organ pipe roomĪn interesting discussion of the organ and the adjustments necessary to adapt it from its original use in a residence to the more open spaces of a church can be found in Eileen G. The organ was first played in this church on Christmas day, 1938. He shipped the pipe organ down-river to Astoria and installed it in the church. Roman Guenther knew that the new Trinity Lutheran Church in Astoria was looking for an organ.
Sellwood sold his house after his wife’s death in 1938, and at some point the organ was sold to the Guenther Organ Company, who installed and maintained organs throughout the Pacific Northwest, and who may have been the original installers of this organ. He was also an accomplished musician, and would entertain the neighborhood by playing both classical and sacred music on his organ by opening the large double doors between his parlor and the street.ĭr. Sellwood was a highly respected doctor specializing in surgery and maternity cases, and a workaholic. Fitzsimons and published in 2013 in The Bee(Pamplin Media Group in Portland), Dr. According to an article written by Eileen G. In 1916 the Estey Pipe Organ Opus 1429 was installed in the Portland home of Dr. Photo by Eileen G Fitzsimons, from The Bee
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