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Old Posted Feb 19, 2014, 6:20 AM
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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:


... And Georgetown University's Healy Hall:

from ken lund on flickr

Up the road in Baltimore they've got the Bromo Seltzer Tower:

from austin kirk on flickr

Out west in Denver, where I once lived, they've got the Daniels & Fisher Tower:

from jimmy emerson on flickr
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Old Posted Feb 19, 2014, 7:13 AM
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Nashville has several satisfactory entries, I think:

Nashville Customs House:


Customs House, Nashville TN by The Photography of Ken Lane, on Flickr

Nashville Union Station (now a hotel):


Union Station by bpe.gadgets, on Flickr

Kirkland Hall at Vanderbilt University:


Kirkland Hall - Vanderbilt University by Chase Montgomery, on Flickr
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Old Posted Feb 19, 2014, 7:52 AM
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I dont know if these Los Angeles ones all qualify, as they are more like tall buildings with large clocks on them:

Eastern Columbia:


you-are-here.com

USC Mudd Hall:




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


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Old Posted Feb 19, 2014, 9:25 AM
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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?!?!?
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Old Posted Feb 19, 2014, 9:32 AM
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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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DUMBO’s Clocktower Apartment, the most expensive condo in Brooklyn, priced down to $18 million

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-styl...#ixzz2tl6pqHhK
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http://www.nydailynews.com/life-styl...icle-1.1202994
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Old Posted Feb 19, 2014, 12:19 PM
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Source: Wikipedia



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

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Old Posted Feb 19, 2014, 2:51 PM
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chicago's most famous clock tower is undoubtedly the one atop the wrigley building.


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




there are some other notable ones around town as well.




the old dearborn station.


source: wikipedia





reid murdoch building


source: wikipedia





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


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


src: the very good the305
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union station

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511 Place d'Armes ( built in 1887)

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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


Clock Tower Haze by joshames, on Flickr

Within the skyline:


Downtown Lansing Panorama by Photo Jimbo, on Flickr

People go crazy when the clock is broken.
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A couple more in Denver:

East High School:

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(photo courtesy of CPVLIVE)

University of Denver's Sturm College of Law:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ege_of_Law.jpg
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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?
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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.
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Abraj al-Bait in Mecca wins! For sheer ugliness. So gaudy, huge, and terrible.

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

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

src: wikipedia
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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...art=;resnum=36

US Post Office.

“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.

“Union Depot; 1895.” http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dpa1ic/x...76/dpa5076.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections.
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Tokyo:

Wako Building in Ginza:



Tokyo University:



NTT Docomo Yoyogi Building:


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

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