In 1828 the Parish of Trinity Episcopal Church was founded.  The first church edifice was erected and consecrated in 1833 and was home to a one-manual, hand-blown organ by Henry Erben of New York.  This first church building and the organ were destroyed in the great fire of 1849. 

The second church building was erected in 1850-51 and housed a two-manual tracker organ, the work of E. & G.G. Hook of Boston, Mass.  This was their Opus No. 114, contained 20 stops, and was given to the parish by Edmund Quincy Sewall, organist/choirmaster at that time.

Gerald F. Stewart, organist & choirmaster from 1909-1911 & 1913-1930, seated at the 1924 Skinner organ console.

In 1889 the cornerstone of the third, and present, church building was laid and the church was consecrated in 1890.  The E. & G.G. Hook organ was moved from the old church to the new church and it continued to serve until 1898 when a new three-manual organ by Johnson & Son of Westfield, Mass. was installed and first used on Easter Sunday 1898.  This instrument contained 30 stops and served Trinity Church until 1924, at which time Mrs. Emma Flower Taylor presented the parish with a new three-manual organ of 40 stops built by the Skinner Organ Co. of Boston, Mass.  At that time, Skinner was perhaps the leading builder of organs in America and his instruments contained many orchestral and imitative voices.  For the detailed specification of the 1924 Skinner organ, please click here.