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Home » Photos of the Month » 2011 » Building the Tower

Photo of The Month – Aug 2011

Building the Tower

Picture contributor: Society Archives

The bottom half of the tower surrounded by scaffolding. Platforms for the brick-layers at the top of the completed part, ready for their work to continue.
Building the Tower

This is one of only a few photos we’ve found of the building of the tower in the summer of 1978. It’s especially pertinent now as we near the restoration stages of the clock.

Showing is the south side of the structure, and below is a similar view today.

South side of tower today, showing iron stains on the brick, peeling paint on the louvers and the gray, stained clockface.

Toward the end of September (2011) we’ll remove the clockfaces to be refurbished. For two or three weeks the holes in the tower will be filled with circles of plywood.

Quarter-inch-thick milk glass, like that originally used in the clock in 1920, will replace the existing frosted glass, which has a thick coating of grime and soot from 33 years of exposure to smokestacks and the environment.

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