Large clock tower buildings in your city
 

You know what I mean. Your city's Big Bens. Let's see them. To qualify, a tower must contain a large clock face.

In Washington we have the Old Post Office:
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4148/...f1c8113a_b.jpg

... And Georgetown University's Healy Hall:
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3240/...d54_z.jpg?zz=1
from ken lund on flickr

Up the road in Baltimore they've got the Bromo Seltzer Tower:
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8257/...70ba53d4_c.jpg
from austin kirk on flickr

Out west in Denver, where I once lived, they've got the Daniels & Fisher Tower:
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4128/...65f4664d_z.jpg
from jimmy emerson on flickr

Nashville has several satisfactory entries, I think:

Nashville Customs House:

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3689/...3a79356a_b.jpg
Customs House, Nashville TN by The Photography of Ken Lane, on Flickr

Nashville Union Station (now a hotel):

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7019/...8bce37b5_b.jpg
Union Station by bpe.gadgets, on Flickr

Kirkland Hall at Vanderbilt University:

https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6056/...b33470ae_b.jpg
Kirkland Hall - Vanderbilt University by Chase Montgomery, on Flickr

I dont know if these Los Angeles ones all qualify, as they are more like tall buildings with large clocks on them:

Eastern Columbia:

http://www.you-are-here.com/broadway...n_columbia.jpg
you-are-here.com

USC Mudd Hall:

http://www.mattconstruction.com/imag...medium/usc.jpg


And just for sadness, LA lost its best clock tower:

http://www.badgehistory.com/images/old_cou1lrg.jpg
badgehistory.com

1501 Broadway: NYC

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/5145570.jpg
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/5145570.jpg

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower: NYC

http://www.inetours.com/New_York/Ima...e-Hdq_8770.jpg
http://www.inetours.com/New_York/Ima...e-Hdq_8770.jpg

One Hanson Place (The Clocktower: NYC

http://static.squarespace.com/static...mat%3Doriginal
http://static.squarespace.com/static...mat%3Doriginal

http://www.cityrealty.com/graphics/p....01b.photo.jpg
http://www.cityrealty.com/graphics/p....01b.photo.jpg

Jefferson Market Library Clock Tower: NYC

http://www.bellissimakids.com/wp-con...et_library.jpg
http://www.bellissimakids.com/wp-con...et_library.jpg

Brooklyn Tower Clock
http://trendland.com/wp-content/uplo...enthouse-2.jpg
http://trendland.com/wp-content/uplo...enthouse-2.jpg
http://trendland.com/wp-content/uplo...enthouse-5.jpg
http://trendland.com/wp-content/uplo...enthouse-5.jpg

ConEdisonClockTower: NYC
http://bijouxconfections.com/ESBPix/...4-001-550x.jpg
http://bijouxconfections.com/ESBPix/...4-001-550x.jpg

Eastern Columbia Tower in LA is one of my favorite buildings anywhere...and...holy sweet shit on a stick...is that a residential unit in that Brooklyn Clock Tower?!?!?

Yes sir. One of the most expensive too.

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http://www.nydailynews.com/life-styl...icle-1.1202994
JASON SHEFTELL / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
NOVEMBER 15, 2012

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...gBenAtDusk.jpg

Source: Wikipedia



Lesser known... Shell-Mex House (between the Strand and Embankment):

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images...House_pic1.jpg

chicago's most famous clock tower is undoubtedly the one atop the wrigley building.

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/20114049.jpg
source: http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/20114049.jpg




there are some other notable ones around town as well.




the old dearborn station.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._from_west.jpg
source: wikipedia





reid murdoch building

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ing_060415.jpg
source: wikipedia





and i've always enjoyed this modernist clocktower on northwestern university's evanston campus.

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/45690057.jpg
source: http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/45690057.jpg

Sorry, but this is Miami's entry. It's actually pretty iconic for South Beach simply because it's so visible. It also shows temperature, so I'm sure it's the subject of many a vacationers winter scrapbook

http://the305.com/blog/wp-content/up...beach-1950.jpg
src: the very good the305

a couple

union station
http://www.asce.org/uploadedImages/P...83cdbf73_o.jpg
asce.org


a-b

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TMJH48_Woy...0/_MG_6311.jpg
http://virginiaburkel.blogspot.com/2...-tour.html?m=1

Montreal
511 Place d'Armes ( built in 1887)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ontreal_06.jpg
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ed...ontreal_06.jpg

I'm going to cheat, too, and put up the "clock tower" I saw from my window every morning and night growing up.

Boji Tower, Lansing, MI

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7037/6...aebbdb2b_z.jpg
Clock Tower Haze by joshames, on Flickr

Within the skyline:

https://s2.yimg.com/sl/4050/4254535291_013f963afc_b.jpg
Downtown Lansing Panorama by Photo Jimbo, on Flickr

People go crazy when the clock is broken.

A couple more in Denver:

East High School:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7033/6...4eac142f_b.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7033/6...4eac142f_b.jpg (photo courtesy of CPVLIVE)

South High School:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7017/6...846ed6f0_b.jpg
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7017/6...846ed6f0_b.jpg(photo courtesy of CPVLIVE)

University of Denver's Sturm College of Law:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ege_of_Law.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ege_of_Law.jpg

If they can dye the river green on St. Patrick's Day, why can't they dye it blue the other 364 days of the year?

they very easily could, but why should they? it would cost money, money that i'm sure most chicagoans would agree would be a waste.

it's fun to dye the river green once a year for st. paddy's day, but that's enough of that kind of frivolity.

Abraj al-Bait in Mecca wins! For sheer ugliness. So gaudy, huge, and terrible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraj_Al_Bait

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ait-Towers.JPG

I was just about to post that one as well. Gaudy, but pretty epic

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...2011Makkah.JPG src: wikipedia

I can't readily think of any current Detroit landmarks that have large clock faces on them. However, there were the usual landmarks that did have them in the past. All of these buildings were demolished at some point.

The old city hall.
http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/i/imag...y=1;view=image
http://dlxs.lib.wayne.edu/cgi/i/imag...art=;resnum=36

US Post Office.
http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/...308_full_0.jpg
“U.S. Post Office; 1913.” http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dpa1ic/x...80/dpa1880.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections.


And the Union Depot Station.
http://i1016.photobucket.com/albums/...827_full_0.jpg
“Union Depot; 1895.” http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dpa1ic/x...76/dpa5076.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections.

Tokyo:

Wako Building in Ginza:

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2108/2...48a91c48_z.jpg

Tokyo University:

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3186/2...e24ed4f7_z.jpg

NTT Docomo Yoyogi Building:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...09_cropped.jpg
Source

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