First Baptist Church

Ninth & Douglass Streets
Sioux City, IA 51103

(See separate entry for a later organ by Moller in 1967. Church was closed. Story below.)
Builder: Hillgreen, Lane & Co., Op. 486, 1917.
Manuals: 3
Ranks: 32
Action: Electro-pneumatic

Notes: Information from Hillgreen, Lane & Co. opus list, compiled by Bynum Petty. Contract date: April 1917. 73-note manual chests. Electro-pneumatic action. Low-voltage generator. Electric blower. Original contract rice: $8,650.

The First Baptist Church, located at Ninth and Douglas streets is shown in this April 13, 1958 photo.

This church building, the third home of First Baptist, was dedicated April 6, 1919.

Final services at the First Baptist Church of Sioux City were held Feb. 5, 1995. A vote to disband came in the church's 134th year after a number of years of declining membership. The building was sold to the First Evangelical Free Church.

Bynum Petty and Organ Historical Society as of 2018.