CANANDAIGUA, NY Drip, drip. The worst leak in the roof of the early 20th-century Woodlawn Chapel was directly above the Hook & Hastings Pipe Organ specially built for the chapel in 1910.
Gone for more than two years from the chapel that Canandaigua philanthropist Mary Clark Thompson had built in 1909, the organ was recently returned home. Renowned Parsons Pipe Organ Builders in nearby Bristol took on the restoration project that wrapped up within the past year.
“It’s hard to believe that it’s 111 years old with 60 years of water damage and brought back to life using most of the original pieces,” said Woodlawn Cemetery Superintendent Doug Stone.