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Clock towers in New York (state) (1 C, 15 P) Clock towers in North Carolina (10 P) Clock towers in North Dakota (2 P) O. Clock towers in Ohio (40 P) Clock towers in ...
Clock towers in Washington, D.C. (3 P) Pages in category "Clock towers in the United States" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
A clock tower is a tower specifically built with one or more (often four) clock faces. Clock towers can be either freestanding or part of a church or municipal building such as a town hall. The mechanism inside the tower is known as a turret clock which often marks the hour (and sometimes segments of an hour) by sounding large bells or chimes ...
Clock tower formerly part of railway terminus now a freestanding tower [108] [109] 84: Albert Memorial Clock Tower: 43 m (141 ft) 4: Yes: 1869: Freestanding Tower: Clock Tower: United Kingdom: Belfast: Height disputed in sources between 43 m (141 ft) and 34.5 m (113 ft) [110] If the greater height 13th tallest freestanding clock tower [111] 85
The Tom W. Davis Tower is a clock tower at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.It is located near the North Recreation Center and features a 20-by-40-foot (6.1 m × 12.2 m) light-emitting diode display and a large clock.
Clock towers in the United States by state ... Water towers in the United States by state or territory (19 C) A. Towers in Alabama (4 C, 15 P) Towers in Alaska (2 C, 1 P)
The Bryan Hall clock tower is a prominent landmark of Washington State University and is used frequently in iconography for both the university and the surrounding area. Silhouettes of the clock tower are featured in the logos for the WSU Student Entertainment Board (SEB), the Allegro Student Association for Music Advocacy, and the City of Pullman.
Clock towers were placed near the centres of towns and were often the tallest structures there. As clock towers became more common, the designers realized that a dial on the outside of the tower would allow the townspeople to read the time whenever they wanted. The use of clock towers dates back to antiquity.