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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 ...
Category: Clock towers in California. 2 languages. ... Stanford Clock Tower; Storke Tower; T. Tribune Tower (Oakland) U. Union Station (Los Angeles)
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The Clock Tower Building occupies a rectangular lot located at 225 Santa Monica Boulevard, in the city’s business district and close to the main thoroughfare Third Street Promenade. The ground floor of the skyscraper, in the form of a compact parallelepipedal block surmounted by a tower, is occupied by retail spaces, and the upper stories by ...
The building was created to house the then-separate Eastern (furniture and homeware) and Columbia (apparel) department stores both owned and managed by Adolph Sieroty, who had founded his Los Angeles retail concern as a clock shop at 556 S. Spring St. in 1892.
Sather Tower is a bell tower with clocks on its four faces on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. It is more commonly known as The Campanile ( / ˌ k æ m p ə ˈ n iː l i , - l eɪ / KAMP -ə- NEE -lee, -lay , also US : / ˌ k ɑː m -/ KAHMP - ) for its resemblance to the Campanile di San Marco in Venice .
In Song dynasty China, an astronomical clock tower was designed by Su Song and erected at Kaifeng in 1088, featuring a liquid escapement mechanism. [2] In England, a clock was put up in a clock tower, the medieval precursor to Big Ben, at Westminster, in 1288; [3] [4] and in 1292 a clock was put up in Canterbury Cathedral. [3]
Formerly known as Library Tower. [3] [4] [5] N/A Sutro Tower: 977 (298) 1973 San Francisco N/A Tallest non-building radio tower in San Francisco since 1973. Because it sits atop a hill, the tower actually reaches a height of 1,814 ft (553 m) above sea level. N/A KCBS Tower: 972 (296) 1986 Mount Wilson N/A 2nd tallest non-building radio tower in ...