This tracker organ is in its third and, we hope, final home. It was originally built for Holy Cross Episcopal church in Ft. Plain, New York in 1902. It was Utica builder C.E. Morey's Opus 193. In 1987 it was renovated and moved to St. David's Episcopal church in Ames, Iowa. Several years later that parish property was absorbed by Iowa State, and the organ was placed in storage. Dr. Eran Lupu, St. Mary's music director, noticed the organ on our website, and thought it might be a good fit for Our Lady's chapel, which had been erected at about the same time.

The Morey organ replaces a small one-manual instrument, which had proved to be inadequate for the liturgies in the chapel. The rebuilding work consisted of re-tabling the manual slider chests, converting the double-rise reservoir to single-rise, renovating the mechanical key action, rebuilding the manual and pedal keyboards, fitting tuning slides to much of the pipework, stripping and refinishing the casework, and providing a blower in a sound-absorbing box. Our work also included modifying the swell box and the case front to fit the organ under the lower ceiling, and making a new right-side post for the case (originally the organ was in a corner). The facade pipes, most of which are speaking, were repaired and beautifully re-decorated and gilded by a pipemaker in Ohio. Wigton Pipe Organs employees spent more than 1300 hours rebuilding and installing the instrument. In August of 2017 Robert Grogan, Organist Emeritus of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, played the dedicatory recital.

STOPLIST
 
Great
  8'      Open Diapason        58 pipes  Zinc, spotted metal, 12 in facade
  8'      Dulciana             58 pipes  12 capped Zinc, rest spotted metal in swell box
  4'      Violina              58 pipes  6 zincs in facade, rest spotted metal
  2'      Fifteenth            58 pipes  Repurposed Pipes, spotted metal
 
Swell
  8'      Violin Diapason      46 pipes  12 basses shared with Stop'd Diapason
  8'      Stop'd Diapason      58 pipes  Stopped wood
  4'      Flute harmonique     58 pipes  Harmonic from middle C; zinc and spotted metal.
  2-2/3' and 1-3/5'
    Nazard & Tierce (g)        58 pipes  Repurposed pipes; Spotted metal; double Draw
          Tremolo
 
Pedal
 16'      Bourdon              27 pipes  Stopped wood
 
Totals 
    9 stops, 
   10 ranks, 
  499 pipes