The Organ List
Organ Historical Society’s Pipe Organ Database
In 2026, the TCAGO joined forces with the Organ Historical Society to support the OHS Pipe Organ Database of more than 70,000 instruments, including our Midwest pipe "Organ List" records. The final merge of details from that previous inventory is nearly complete. This collaboration provides a single powerful search of consistent information, eliminates duplication of effort and provides ongoing support for new data.
Search for an Organ
Click: Pipe Organ Database
Enter any combination of the builder, location name, city and state abbreviation
Click: "Go"
The results include matching locations and instruments.
For details, click on an instrument or location.
Request Changes
On the details page, see buttons to add images, stop lists or suggest an edit. Please be encouraged to use them! Submission of new photos showing details of stops, couplers and the builder/opus nameplate are also extremely valuable. For a new instrument listing, choose "Submit New Instrument Entry" from the top left "Instruments" tab.
Search for a List of Organs
For a scrolling list of instruments within states sorted by city, like our previous format, click a state link and the following "Table" tab:
To refine this search, type any part of a location name, city, builder, or change the chosen state directly. The search updates with each keystroke. You can access the list search at any time through the top left tab: "Instruments > View Search Instruments".
The resulting list displays valuable data for each instrument, including icons if there are images, stop lists or supporting documents available. Click "Filter and Sort" to change the sort order. Click on an instrument for details.
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Archived TCAGO Pipe Organ List
With few exceptions, all organs from our 2025 archival list are included in the OHS database which we encourage using as the primary source. Until the final merge process is complete, for roughly 400 instruments, you can find additional stop lists, images or text in the archived list.
History of The Organ List
Note from David Engen, June 2022: The Organ List has been a labor of love for many. The conversion from Apple to open HTML [completed June 2021] took 7 years, with the help of Jayson Engquist and Lise Schmidt. The next step will be to move the files from a private server to a more "industrial" server in Maple Grove. [...] We have also cleaned up the domain name, and it is now "pipeorganlist.org". The old [.com] list has been retired.
Note from David Engen, February 2022: The Organ Historical Society maintains an extensive list of pipe organs throughout the US, and there is a great deal of overlap between the TCAGO list and the OHS list. The OHS has a much larger volunteer staff than does the TCAGO. It’s foolish to maintain two separate lists of the same information. We have begun investigating a merger between the two separate lists of the same information.
Conversion progress, documented by David Engen:
(screenshot from May 2021)
April 2015 screenshot of note from David Engen:
Note on (now retired) pipeorganlist.com from David Engen, March 2015: Over many years, Richard Greene assembled a comprehensive list of over 2100 organs in the Midwest. This list documents the presence of instruments of all sizes, whether extant or not. Where available, each entry includes the stoplist and pictures. This is truly a remarkable resource which many of us use on a regular basis.
In this site you will find organ specifications, pictures, historical and other information about most of the churches, residences, colleges and universities with organs in Minnesota and in our neighboring states where such information has been provided.
From either the links at the top or at the left side you may select a state. On the following page you will find an alphabetical list of cities and churches/schools/individuals. You may wish to use the "Find" feature of your browser.
We hope you enjoy the list and are able to find information you seek. Please help us maintain the list by reporting any errors or changes you may find. If you have information that is not on the list, please send it. You may use the "Contact" link on the left. We also report this information to the Organ Historical Society. If not otherwise noted, pictures are in the public domain and were copied from Facebook, the church's websites, or from a Google search.
In January of 2015 Dick retired from maintaining this list and I took over. The organization and appearance are changing slightly due to a software conversion. Support for some of the software used to create these pages was discontinued by the vendor, so it was necessary to convert it to a different platform. Conversion was completed in 2021. We now document about 3850 organs in the 5-state area.