The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

Davenport City Hall's 1800s-era clock tower rings again

Inside Davenport City Hall's clock tower is a 1895 Howard No. 0 Special Striker. Its clockwork turns the hands of the public-facing dial and rings a 1874 bell every hour for the first time in recent ...
The Harvard Crimson

In Photos: Inside Cambridge's Historic Tower Clock

More than 130 years after its installation atop the Cambridge City Hall, a mechanical tower clock — wound by hand each week — continues to chime. Crimson photographers followed David W. Graf, the ...
The Gazette

Czech Village museum’s Clock Tower to add Prague-style astronomical clock features, figurines

Grant Smith, director of facilities for the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, on Wednesday unlocks an opening in the Clock Tower in southwest Cedar Rapids. The tower will undergo rebuilding ...
The Post-Crescent

Neenah investigates fix for iconic clock tower that doesn't keep time on its north side

Reader question: Is Neenah going to fix the clock on the north side of the clock tower? It's stuck at 3 o'clock and has been for quite some time. I think it reflects poorly on the city not to maintain ...
Centre Daily Times

Millheim residents launch effort to save clock tower. ‘Important part of this town’s history’

Penns Valley’s Calvary Church, home of the Millheim town clock and its tower. Provided by Robert Zeigler. Robert Zeigler Photo provided Millheim’s town clock has looked out over the borough for well ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

Davenport City Hall's 1800s-era clock tower rings again

Before this year, the stationary hands of City Hall's clock told the correct time just twice a day. Junk filled the rafters surrounding the clock tower mechanism and estimates to fix it for years ...