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Cincinnati #26 (Updated 03-95)
Location: University of Cincinnati, Engineering Quadrangle Remarks: Equatorial. The sun-clock was based on an illustration that appeared in Scientific American, with dimensions and shape of analemma calculated from data found in an almanac. An equatorial ring engraved with an hour circle is fastened orthogonally to a meridional ring and the assembly is rotated on a polar axis until the focused image of the sun is centered on the analemma line. Knowing the season, the month and approximate day can be read from the analemma scale and standard time to the nearest minute from the hour circle. A duplicate of the 1986 sun-clock is believed to be located on the former Kroger estate in suburban Cincinnati. Photo Cleveland #270 Location: Case Western Reserve University, Mather Quadrangle Remarks: Horizontal in bronze. Octagonal face surrounded with flaring flange decorated with the 12 signs of the zodiac. Dial rests on an octagonal stone pillar. Cleveland #405 (Updated 07-00) Location: Sam Miller Park near the Rockefeller Park Greenhouses Remarks: A ground level horizontal dial 14 feet in diameter, 5 foot 3 inch gnomon. Made of concrete, brick, and granite. Cleveland #285 Location: Garden Center of Greater Cleveland, 11030 East Boulevard. Remarks: Armillary in iron. Composed of four iron rings bisected by an arrow. Restored 1993. Clifton Village #610 (Updated 11-07) Location: 238 Tanyard Road Yellow Springs, at the north end of Clifton Village Remarks: A well executed 35 x 23 inch vertical acrylic painted wood dial. Dial face includes longitude-corrected hour lines with Roman numerals, noon analemma, and equinox and zodiacal declination arcs. The dial is designed for a declination of 1° 18' West of South. Dial nomenclature includes location, declination and time zone offset. Dial is on private property but owner welcomes visitors who arrange viewing by calling 937-767-2330. Photos Columbus #357 Location: Busch Corporate Center, 1105 Schrock Rd. Remarks: "Hora Novem" An unusual 'solar calendar water sculpture' incorporating water jets which converge at center of a 17' equatorial ring. Dayton #102 (Updated 11-00) Location: Carillon Park Remarks: A circular granite dial about 2 feet in diameter. Has a solid engraved gnomon. The dial sits on a sculpted column with spreading base, all protected by a brass railing. Photo Delaware #595 (Updated 07-07) Location: Ohio Wesleyan University In front of the Conrades Wetherell Science Center Remarks: A 24 inch diameter stainless steel armillary dial with equator, meridian and horizon rings. The armillary includes compass points and zodiacal symbols. The dial sits atop a 6 foot tall architectural sculpture of four two-columned arches also made of formed and welded stainless steel sheet with a random polished pattern creating dark and bright areas that change as the sun moves across the work. The armillary is held by fingers of a sculpted hand. 2 Photos Delphos #548 (Updated 05-06) Location: In front of Delphos Public Library 309 West Second St. Remarks: A horizontal dial on a stone block. Dedicated to Leslie C. Peltier, recognized as "World's greatest non-professional astronomer" by Harvard Observatory. Stone block, possibly marble. Photo Granville #528 (Updated 10-04) Location: North from Broadway and Main Street at Denison University, in the plaza just south of Swasey Chapel. Remarks: This horizontal sundial is built on a one-meter cube of red granite with a cast bronze gnomon supported by a cast bronze Pegasus modeled by New York artist Carl Paul Jennewein. The dial's plaza location overlooks the village of Granville and the valley beyond to the south. The dial is a tribute to Clifford S. Stilwell (Denison Class of 1912) who was Chairman of the Denison Board of Trustees at his death in 1941. The early B&W photograph of the Pegasus gnomon is courtesy of Denison University Archives. Photo Parma #580 (Updated 05-07) Location: In front of Parma City Hall at Ridge Road and West Ridgewood Drive. Remarks: A three foot armillary sundial with equatorial ring and gnomon pointer on a stone base with dedication plaque. Dial was built by the local high school vocational welding class in 1988. Progress through partnership. Photo Newark #460 (Updated 09-01) Location: Behind the visitor center at the Dawes Arboretum Remarks: An analemmatic dial with stone markers for the hours. Oberlin #63 (Updated 05-04) Location: Oberlin College, The Adam Lewis Center for Environmental Studies, 122 Elm Street Remarks: When is a flag pole more than a flag pole? When it has cement walkway curved for the summer solstice, a path for the winter solstice and a distinguishing straight cement line for the spring and fall equinox. This dial has no hour markers, and is intended to show the seasons. The tip of the flag pole will follow these lines at the appropriate day of the season. 2 Photos Oberlin #219 (Updated 05-04) Location: Oberlin College, S wall of Wright Physics Laboratory Remarks: Student made vertical decliner on 5' x 8.5' resin coated particle board. Curved hour lines account for EoT, declination of wall, and offset from standard meridian. This dial has not been on display for some time. Photo Oxford #103 (Updated 11-00) Location: Miami University Remarks: Armillary dial in metal and marble, with equatorial, meridional, polar and vertical rings, plus the polar circles. Fabricated by Kenneth Lynch & Sons, Wilton, CT. Photo Wilmot #444 (Updated 07-01) Location: In front of the Astronomy Education Building of The Wilderness Center, 9877 Alabama Ave. SW. Remarks: A large horizontal dial with a 6-foot steel gnomon approximately 27 inches thick. The face is slate with copper numerals. Photo Wooster #196 Location: Wooster College, corner of Kaunke Hall Remarks: Horizontal in brass or bronze |
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Claremore #549 (Updated 05-06)
Location: Private residence; contact Dan Wilson at 918-342-2508 to arrange viewing. Remarks: A 24x36 foot all-concrete horizontal dial with marks to indicate summer solstice and equinox. Photo Enid #351 (Updated 10-02) Location: Adventure Quest, 2nd and Maple. In the botanical garden. Access limited to business hours. Remarks: A striking stainless steel equatorial dial 6 ft tall, 4 ft wide, and 6 ft deep. The equatorial ring is more than 2 ft wide. The dial indicates solar time by direct reading of the wire gnomon. A mechanical attachment provides an analemma for reading standard times. Two scales are provided for Central Standard and Daylight Time. By David A Harbour and Lt. Col. Bill Welker. Photo |
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Cove #141 (Updated 12-01)
Location: West of Ascension School's main lodge, near the corner of Church and Main Sts. Remarks: An unusual sun sculpture 5 foot tall and approximately 20 inches in width and depth. Has hour and minute markings arranged on equatorial member. A 1/4 inch steel rod functions as the gnomon. The dial is set to read Pacific Daylight Solar Time, with a stated accuracy of 15 seconds of time. Photo McMinville #133 Location: Murdock Hall, Linfield College (facing Linfield Ave.) Remarks: Vertical in stainless steel and copper. The hourlines project beyond the dial face, which is mounted about 12" out from the wall and casts digit-shaped shadows on it. Thus both the hour-lines and style line are shadows. The dial is mounted on the south face of a tower, structurally an elevator shaft. The bronze plaque at the base reads: 'The sundial above honors Winthrop W. Dolan, [author of A Choice of Sundials], who served Linfield for 26 years as Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy, Dean of Faculty and Acting President, then served as Trustee for 15 more years. Designed by Nils Lou based on data provided by W.W.Dolan. Fabricated by Amerson Precision Sheet Metal, McMinnville OR.' |
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Ambridge #104
Location: Old Economy Village Remarks: Cube dial, about 12" each side in stone with metal gnomons. Reproduction of unidentified original. Dials on all four sides and top. Photo Burmingham #358 Location: Behind the Friends Meeting House Remarks: An armillary dial in poor shape. Elizabethtown #451 (Updated 10-02) Location: Grand Lodge Hall, 1 Masonic Drive Remarks: Upon a large stately brownstone building, far above the center doorway nearly at roofline, is a marble vertical dial. The dial appears small, but is actually at least 4 x 4 feet. By distant inspection, the angle of the copper gnomon indicate that the dial and building decline approximately 25º to the east of south. Photo Farrell #519 (Updated 05-04) Location: At entrance to steel mill on route 60/718 (Broadway) Remarks: "Rising Rings" A large solar-alignment monument commissioned by Dr. Swraj Paul, a steel mill owner, to honor his daughter Ambika who died of leukemia. It consists of a cast iron band 11 feet high by 17 feet in diameter with a hole that allows a beam of sunlight to fall on a central ring monument at solar noon on the date of Ambika's birthday and the anniversary of the mill's re-opening. 2 Photos Link Franklin Center #139 (Updated 07-07) Location: Franklin Mint Museum Remarks: A modernistic equatorial dial about 6 feet in diameter. The analemma shaped gnomon casts Eastern Standard Time onto a wide metal semicircular band. The hours and 10-minute marks are inscribed on the center of the equatorial band. This unique sundial tells the time, indicates the approximate day of the month and projects the zodiacal constellation signs as they are aligned with the sun and the earth in this era. It is accurate to within two minutes. 2 Photos Green Lane #262 Location: Perkiomen Valley Park Remarks: Armillary in bronze and copper. Three intersecting copper circles. Supported by small bronze figure, perhaps Atlas. Hollidaysburg #437 (Updated 12-00) Location: Discovery Garden at Legion Park, directly across from the State Police Barracks Remarks: This is a large horizontal dial 10 feet in diameter, constructed of marble with a steel gnomon. The sundial was donated in honor of Courtney Leigh Clayton and is open to the public as part of the beautiful Discovery Garden. Link Kennett Square #328 (Updated 07-07) Location: Longwood Gardens Reference: Sawyer, Fred. 'Of Analemmas, Mean Time and The Analemmatic Sundial - Part 1', BSS Bulletin, 94.2 (June 1994), pp. 2-6, and 'Part 2', in 95.1, (February 1995, pp. 39-44.) Remarks: Mean-time analemmatic. Hour markers are bronze Roman numerals. Minute lines inscribed in limestone curbing. Gnomon is a moveable pole. This is probably the world's largest analemmatic designed to show standard time directly. NASS member P. Kenneth Seidelman was instrumental in correcting this design, which was undertaken in 1978. 3 Photos Link Kennett Square #329 (Updated 07-07) Location: Longwood Gardens on US 1 in Peony Garden before the pine trees. Remarks: Horizontal in limestone with an iron gnomon. At ground level. Hourlines identified by Roman numerals; hours divided into minutes. Hourline distribution adjusted for stile width. EoT engraved on PM side of dial face. 2 Photos Lampeter # 545(Updated 05-06) Location: Visitor's entrance to the Lampeter-Strasburg High School along Book Road at Village Road, Rt. 741 in Lacaster County. Remarks: A 32x64-inch cast stone vertical declining dial located 25 feet up a vertical column at the school's entrance. An EOT plaque is located below the dial. Quote from Ben Franklin, "Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?" Photo Lewisburg #445 (Updated 10-02) Location: On the campus of Bucknell University, outside the Physics Department building Remarks: An ornate brass equatorial dial approximately 1 foot across. Two pillars with brass balls support the dial plate. Two more pillars with balls support the gnomon wire. The northern pillar adds a spread eagle which holds the gnomon wire in its mouth. Unfortunately this beautiful dial is tarnished by age, with the analemmas for each hour barely visible on the dial plate. The gnomon wire, broken sometime in the past, is jury-rigged and tied together in the middle, resulting in a unkempt look to such a fine dial. A dark, round stone base, perhaps made of slate, approximately 8 foot in diameter supports the dial and pillars. The stone sits upon a 10 x 10 foot concrete pad. Photo Philadelphia #146 (Updated 07-07) Location: Rose Garden, Independence National Park, S. of Walnut St, between 4th and 5th St. Remarks: Horizontal in brass. Approximately one foot diameter round dial on a square marble pedestal with dedication plaque, 1971. Gnomon missing. Photo Philadelphia #147 (Updated 07-07) Location: Rittenhouse Square. NE Corner, near 18th and Walnut. Remarks: Vertical. Approx. 5 foot bronze sculpture of two children standing on either side of a sunflower with their arms stretching up. The center of the sunflower is a sundial. 2 Photos Philadelphia #148 (Updated 07-07) Location: Powel House Garden, 244 S. 3d St, behind locked gate. Remarks: Horizontal dial approximately one foot diameter mounted on old stone atop a 3 foot stone pedestal. It is sitting against north wall of the garden and not aligned in proper direction. Plaque at the base states "This sundial stood for over a century in the gardens of Dorchester House, Park Lane, London, England. Presented by The Soroptomist Club of Philadelphia, December 23, 1935". This may be true for the dial plate because the hour angles indicate a latitude of 51°, the London latitude. It may not be true for the gnomon, whose style angle is 40°, the Philadelphia latitude. Access by taking guided tour, $5; then ask for garden 2 Photos Philadelphia #149 (Updated 07-07) Location: Powel House, 244 S. 3d. St. Admission fee: $5.00 for guided tour. On wall of the passage from hallway to kitchen inside the house, just for exhibition. Remarks: 9.5 × 19 inches, rough wood painted in black, roman numerals from 8 am to 5 pm on 1.5 inches wide frame, it was for hanging on a declining wall. Black iron gnomon rod, 1 foot in length, is supported with iron vine which is fixed to a point on the dial plate about 1.5 inches from the noon line. Unfortunately, the gnomon seems twisted, so that it points down over the noon line, like those for dials facing true south. Philadelphia #150 (Updated 07-07) Location: Presbyterian Historical Society, 425 Lombard St. In front yard near front steps. Visible through locked gates. Remarks: A 21 inch diameter horizontal dial on three foot brick pedestal. Hour lines only. Gnomon reclined. Photo Philadelphia #151 (Updated 11-99) Location: South wall of building at 905 Clinton St. Remarks: Vertical on recently stuccoed wall resulting in no hour lines. Only a small gnomon below a second story window. Behind trees. Philadelphia #152 (Updated 11-99) Location: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society garden, 325 Walnut St. Remarks: Armillary. Could not be located. Philadelphia #153 (Updated 11-99) Location: College of Physicians herb garden, 19 S. 22nd St. In garden behind locked gates. Remarks: Armillary. Brick pedestal visible, but missing the armillary Philadelphia #154 (Updated 06-00) Location: West Laurel Hill Cemetery, on small island encircled by roads Remarks: A small reclining cross dial about 18 inches tall, made of stone. Sits on a round stone pillar about 4 feet tall. Photo Philadelphia #155 Location: West Laurel Hill Cemetery, inside Administration Building Remarks: Vertical Philadelphia #156 (Updated 07-07) Location: Grumplethorpe House, 5267 Germantown Ave. Remarks: A 1 foot diameter bronze horizontal dial in backyard garden. May be from 18th century. Gnomon is shaky for its bolts are loose. Style angle is about 51°, an angle for London, not for Philadelphia. 2 Photos Philadelphia #157 (Updated 07-07) Location: W. of access road from Coulter St. to the Germantown Friends School, 43 W. Coulter - One block from Philadelphia #156 Remarks: A 1 foot diameter bronze horizontal dial on a square granite pedestal 3 feet tall. Possibly made in 18th century. Beautiful engraving. 3 Photos Philadelphia #158 (Updated 07-07) Location: Tolentine Community Center, 1025 Mifflin St. Remarks: Analemmatic dial with bronze standing figures. 2 Photo2 Philadelphia #160 (Updated 07-07) Location: Rittenhouse Home in Historic Rittenhouse Town In Fairmount Park; access trail is by Wissahickon Ave. between W. Hermit Lane and Lincoln Drive. Remarks: A 1 foot diameter bronze horizontal dial. It was presented by National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors in 1991. However, the style angle is 52°. 2 Photos Philadelphia #229 (Updated 07-07) Location: Fairmont Park Horticulture Center, east end of 52nd St. Dr. West of the reflecting pool, between two raised gardens Remarks: Brass horizontal dial by Alexander Stirling Calder. Local Hour lines plus EoT monthly corrections and differences between 12 world cities. Pedestal Sculpture is white marble and depicts 4 seated young women as the 4 seasons holding the dial on their shoulders. Built in 1905. Tip of gnomon appears damaged. Photo Pittsburgh #436 (Updated 07-07) Location: In front of Soldiers & Sailors Memorial, Fifth Avenue (in Oakland) Dial has been removed. Remarks: Large metal armillary dial, about 6 feet in diameter. Has a double equatorial ring with Roman numerals for the hours held between the two rings. Also has horizontal and vertical rings. Photo Pittsburgh #110 (Updated 07-07) Location: Soldiers & Sailors Memorial, Fifth Avenue (in Oakland) Remarks: A horizontal dial of brass about 18 inches in diameter with a fluted edge. The gnomon is a simple design. The dial is supported by three balusters resting on a larger circular base. Sundial has been removed 2 Photos Pittsburgh #107 (Updated 07-07) Location: Stephen Foster Memorial, Forbes Avenue (in Oakland) Remarks: A small horizontal metal dial perhaps 10 or 12 inches in diameter. The gnomon, which is missing, had an ornate cross-brace support. Surrounding the dial are two inscriptions. The dial sits on a square stone supported by a square column of white stone. 2 Photos Pittsburgh #108 (Updated 07-07) Location: Frick Fine Art Museum, In Front of Museum (in Oakland) Remarks: A circular horizontal dial about 18 inches in diameter. The dial has now been removed altogether. It sat on a circular column of white stone ornately carved. Spiral flutes on the lower half. Photo Swarthmore #35 (Updated 07-07) Location: Swarthmore College, Kohlberg Hall Remarks: Modern vertical declining dial on a brick wall. The gnomon is a twisted sheet of bronze, casting shadows onto granite hour marks. The dial was designed by Marti Cowan using Waugh's formulae for vertical dials. Frederick Orthlieb, professor and chair of the Dept of Engineering at Swarthmore "had a part in locating the bent-plate gnomon so as to give correct indications on the vertical wall... As installed, the gnomon's indicating edge (which lies on a Polar Axis) casts a quite short shadow in Autumn and Winter and requires some observing skill to make a close estimate of indicated time, but in Spring and Summer the longer shadow moves over the granite hour marks very plainly." Photo University Park #64 Location: Penn State University - Old Main Building, outside main entrance. Reference: Waugh, p.175 Remarks: A bronze armillary dial with meridian and equatorial rings and arctic and antarctic circles on a stone pedestal. |
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Barnwell #112
Location: In front of Courthouse Remarks: Vertical in cast iron Photo Charleston #361 (Updated 03-99) Location: White Point Gardens, on The Battery near the corner of King St. and Murray Blvd. Reference: NASS Compendium, Vol. 6, No. 1 - March 1999 Dimensions: 20' high overall, dial 2' in circumference Remarks: Commemorating the 176 sailors who died in the collision at sea of the USS Wasp and the USS Hobson on April 6, 1952. The platform in the base includes stones from the thirty-eight home states of those lost. Embedded in the in the platform is a bronze arrow, pointing to the unmarked grave in the Atlantic. 2 Photos Chesterfield #274 Location: Chesterfield County Court House Remarks: Armillary in bronze. Three intersecting circles support an arrow shaped gnomon. Open mouthed gargoyles surround the column's highly carved capital. Murrells Inlet #303 Location: Brookgreen Gardens Remarks: Type? in bronze. Figure of nude male child by Paul Manship? |
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Collegedale #113
Location: Southern Adventist University Remarks: Large equatorial in stainless steel, corrected for longitude. Nodus is a hole on a horizontal gnomon rod running E/W across face. Can compensate for DST by shifting dial via bolts in slots in base. Solstice lines run along top and bottom edge of cylinder. Photo Knoxville #166 Location: West Town Mall Remarks: Horizontal in steel, brass and etched glass. As the sun penetrates the building a shadow is cast from the gnomon onto the 1" thick laminated glass which has hour lines etched into its surface. The time is viewed from the underside of the dial. A deep carved mountain landscape is artificially lighted in the lower section. Nashville #425 (Updated 09-00) Location: Montgomery Bell Academy Science Building Remarks: A 6' x 7' vertical declining dial above the main entrance. The dial shows hour lines, declination lines and a noon analemma. |
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Amarillo #67 (Updated 12-03)
Location: Discovery Center, 1200 Streit Drive Remarks: The Centennial Time Tower is a tetrahedron of stainless steel tubes each about 37 feet long. A central pipe towers to the sky, giving an overall height of about 55 feet. The dial was erected for the hundredth anniversary of the discovery of Helium. Each pipe is a time capsule filled with helium. Follow the link for details. Photo Link College Station #134 (Updated 09-00) Location: Texas A&M Campus, in floral test garden Remarks: Called the Texas A&M Armillary Sphere, this sundial is 60 inches in diameter. Made of wrought iron, it has one large vertical ring representing the meridian at College Station. Attached to the inside of this ring is a wide band representing the celestial equator. The outside of this band is decorated with gold signs of the Zodiac. On the inside are gold roman numerals for each hour. The gnomon is a rod with a gold tip and ornate fan. A metal plaque mounted nearby gives a description of the dial and EoT corrections. By Kenneth Lynch & Sons, Wilton, CT. Photo Dallas #385 (Updated 03-00) Location: Texas Instruments, 12500 TI Boulevard, South Lobby Remarks: Horizontal dial approximately 20 feet in diameter. The gnomon is stainless steel, the face is ceramic tile. Hour markers for both standard and daylight saving time, and an Equation of Time table. Large panels also describe significant makers and inventions in Texas Instrument's history. Global map of the earth as viewed from the north pole. Inscription provides some sundial history. Euless #602 (Updated 11-07) Location: Remarks: A granite and stainless steel equatorial dial approximately 6 feet high. Equation of time and user information are shown on a granite lab in front of the dial. Likely made by Erickson Monuments. 2 Photos Galveston #318 (Updated 05-04) Location: Harris Garden, 2302 Broadway Remarks: An equatorial dial 3' x 4'. An analemma correcting for the Equation of Time is cut into the broad gnomon which rotates on a polar rod. The Equatorial time ring has 5 minute indications and tells both standard and DST. Patterned after one built at Vanderbilt University by the late Professor Dillard Jacobs. Designed and built by William Swann. Similar to Idaho/Boise/NASS #344 by Peter Swanstrom. Photo Houston #244 Location: Sam Houston Park, NE corner of Bagby & McKinney Remarks: Armillary. 'constructed from a series of looks(?) creating a sphere and an arrow through the center pointing to the North Star'. Houston #68 Location: Museum of Natural Science Remarks: Type? Large gnomon with a lens which focuses the noonday sun near the equinoxes. Hour lines built to compensate for equation of time. Houston #275 Location: Univ. of Houston at Clear Lake, 2700 Bay Area Blvd. Developmental Arts Bldg. Remarks: Equatorial in bronze. The upper half is a semi-circular, facted, upright element composed of flat-sided volumes in the overall shape of a crescent. There is a transverse bow shape or tail-like element which is penetrated by a diagonal upright element these two elements form a working sundial. Port Arthur #446 (Updated 07-01) Location: 800 Block of 4th Street at Mobile Ave, a few blocks NE of downtown. Remarks: A large polar equatorial dial of light colored granite, approximately 6 feet in diameter and 6 inches thick. The gnomon shaft is steel, extending from the ground through the dial plate and outward another two feet. The base is a simple tier of raised concrete. 24 hours are inscribed on each side of the dial (summer and winter) as radiating lines with Arabic numbers at the end. Time is graduated by half-hour and 5 minute marks. Two equation of time graphs are set at the north and south ends of the dial. In the top quadrant of the dial (both obverse and reverse) where the sun's shadow will never fall, are the names of cities in 16 different Time Zones. A beautiful and well-crafted sundial, it makes a fitting Seaman's Memorial. Dedicated to the memory of the 31 crew members of the 'Texaco Oklahoma', lost at sea, March 28, 1971. 2 Photos Link San Jacinto #216 Location: On San Jacinto Battleground State Park grounds Remarks: Armillary in bronze. Has meridional, equatorial, polar circles, along with north and south polar circles. Several names around base, presumably of Texas veterans. Photo San Ygnacio #571 (Updated 09-06) Location: Above the roof of the Jesus Trevino Fort Complex in the village of San Ygnacio, Texas, about 30 miles down the Rio Grande River from Laredo, Texas. Remarks: A stone equatorial dial with an iron gnomon. Inscribed on both sides with hour lines. Placed above an entrance to a walled fort also built in 1851. Legend says Jose Villarreal designed and built the dial to celebrate his escape in 1820 as a child after capture by Lipan Apache Indians and being guided by the north star in his return home. 2 Photos Link |
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Heber City #531 (Updated 03-05)
Location: Off Route 40 on the Wasatch Campus of Utah Valley State College. Remarks: A 51 x 36 foot Sun Dagger horizontal dial with a 14 foot high welded silicon bronze gnomon. The gnomon includes polymer prisms that cast rainbows of light to depict the noon transit, seasonal calendar, winter and summer solstices, and vernal and autumnal equinoxes. The sun lines are copper inlaid in concrete and the hour markers are 4 inch bronze numerals. 3 Photos Link Salt Lake City #347 (Updated 07-07) Location: Gallivan Center, 239 South Main St. 57 Central Plaza Landmark Remarks: A 24 foot tall azimuth dial in a complex sculpture comprising a light projection gnomon within a 36 foot diameter base with numerous additional shadow-casting structures. The sculpture symbolizes the concepts of space and time: space as a large boulder (asteroid) sitting on a square pedestal; and, time as an azimuth sundial that shows the path of the sun through the day and seasons. See the link for many more features. 2 Photos Link PDF Document Salt Lake City #114 (Updated 11-00) Location: Temple Square, near Mormon Tabernacle Remarks: Horizontal in stone and metal. Hexagonal, ca 8" on a side. Unusually small gnomon, only about 4" high. Roman numerals. Beehive pictured at the base of the gnomon. Photo |
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Burlington #161
Location: University of Vermont, South end of "The Old Mill" building Remarks: Vertical declining in bronze (?) Hour lines are curved to compensate for EoT. Rings indicate months. Difficult to read due to height (ca. 12') above ground level.) Dial declines approximately 5° east. Burlington #182 Location: Shelborn Museum Remarks: Horizontal. Square engraved face. This dial may be gone (?) Dummerston #366 (Updated 02-99) Location: Attached to the southern end of the hanger building at the grass airstrip "Moore's Field" located east of Route 5, about 5 miles north of Brattleboro, VT. Reference: NASS Compendium, Vol. 4, No. 1 - March 1997 Remarks: This 4 x 8 foot vertical declining dial displays "Italian Hours". Located on the southern gable of a hanger along a grass strip airport, the dial serves to inform pilots of ultralight aircraft how many hours remain before sunset. Ultralights are not permitted to fly after sunset or before sunrise. The dial is painted board with vinyl lines, letters and numerals. A sign at the base explains how to read the dial. The dial was built by Mac Oglesby and Eliot Kimble. A smaller 2 x 2 foot vertical decliner is located on the western side of the hanger building as well. It too shows Italian hours. 2 Photos Jerico #70 Location: Mt. Mansfield Union High School Remarks: 'Polaris', a steel, concrete and stone pyramid. As the sun shines through a hole at the center, an analemma is traced on the ground. Markers identify equinox sunrises and solstice sunsets. By Kate Pond. Johnson #71 (Updated 05-94) Location: Johnson State College, on the campus green Reference: NASS Compendium, Vol. 1, No. 1 - May 1994 Remarks: Horizontal, 18' diameter in concrete and stainless Steel. On the ground concrete paths mark the N-S and E-W axes. The gnomon is a 3 inch stainless steel pipe 9 feet long attached to a concrete base. The hours are marked with 1 foot diameter Vermont granite stones, and at the cardinal points are larger stone markers. One of Kate Pond's first dials. Photo Manchester #416 (Updated 09-00) Location: On the border of Manchester and Dorset, VT. On the side of a barn on Rt. 30 heading into Dorset Remarks: A beautiful vertical declining dial, done in white lines and numerals on the side of a red barn. Made of metal and wood, the overall height is about 15 feet. The dial has a clean, modern design using tapered hour lines and simple gnomon. The Arabic numerals for each hour are graded in size to match the size of their hour line, with the largest at noon and the smallest at 8am and 5pm. Photo Randolph City #266 Location: Vermont Technical College, behind Administrative Center Remarks: Entitled: Armillary VII. Contains an ecliptic ring, an equatorial ring and a gnomon ring. Engraved with the signs of the zodiac. By Paul Calter. South Burlington #264 Location: Overlook Park, W side of Spear St. Remarks: Horizontal in steel and wrought iron. General design is two circles enclosing one another and quartered. Outer circle is 11' wide with beaded edges and contains Roman numerals. Inner circle is 3'4" and is a quartered disk. Surveyed in 1992, finding condition very poor. South Woodstock #569 (Updated 09-06) Location: East facing wall of private home Remarks: A painted 47x72 inch vertical dial of red oak declining east. Markings include analemmas for each hour, solstice declination lines and day lines for the first of each month with Zodiac icons on perimeter. Contact David Scott at 978-544-2374 to arrange viewing. 2 Photos Springfield #542 (Updated 05-06) Location: Stellafane, the clubhouse of the Springfield Telescope Makers located on Breezy Hill in Springfield, Vermont. Remarks: A 3x4 foot wood vertical dial designed by Russell Porter. Available for viewing at the summer Stellafane telescope makers conference or by arrangement with Jay Drew at jay@drewclan.org. Photo Swanton #72 Location: Swanton Elementary School Remarks: Horizontal. 10' cedar pole covered with copper tiles forms the gnomon. Flowers and an evergreen hedge mark shadow paths of equinoxes and solstices. Some hour markers missing. By Kate Pond. Westminster #365 (Updated 02-00) Location: On the grounds of the Westminster West School, about 7 miles north of Putney, VT on the Westminster West Road, just north of the village of Westminster West. Reference: NASS Compendium, Vol. 3, No. 4 - Dec 1996 Remarks: This whimsical dial looking like a cut-out face is actually an East and West Vertical dial and a Polar dial. It stands about 4 feet high, and is built out of 1 inch steel plate fabricated in Windsor VT and installed on a buried concrete pier. Near noon, a beam of sunlight shining through an 'ear" indicates the date. By Mac Oglesby. Photo Westminster #378 (Updated 02-00) Location: On the grounds of the Westminster West School, about 7 miles north of Putney, VT on the Westminster West Road, just north of the village of Westminster West. Reference: NASS Compendium, Vol. 6, No. 3 - Sept 1999 Remarks: A large shadow plane dial approximately 10 ft across with a nylon cord for a gnomon. Hour points are painted on the dial. To read local apparent time on this sundial, the user must hold the gnomon cord taught and move until its shadow falls across the center of the dial. The entire dial lies south of the cord's point of attachment. By Mac Oglesby. Photo Williston #73 Location: S. T. Griswold Concrete Works Remarks: Horizontal. Pyramidal shape. Markers trace the paths of the shadows cast by the top of the pyramid on solstice and equinox days. Originally at the Brattleboro Museum, it was moved to its present location in 1993. Entitled 'Farther than the Eye.' By Kate Pond. Williston #267 Location: Williston Central School Remarks: Horizontal in African granite, Cor-Ten steel and concrete. A sundial with a hook-shaped arm in the center next to a granite block. Surrounding these two pieces are three flat concrete slabs with numbers carved in them. By Kate Pond. Woodstock #265 Location: Woodstock Union High school Remarks: Analemmatic composed of rectangular cement blocks set in a semi-circle with the hours of the day etched into the side of each block. Facing these is a cement walkway with the initials of each month of the year. |
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Alexandria #253 (Updated 07-07)
Location: NW corner of King & Cameron St. Bank Building, S side May have been removed. Could not be located 08-05 Remarks: Vertical. About 13' above street level. Declines 22 W. Alexandria #254 Location: Christ Church Remarks: Horizontal circular bronze dial appears to have been designed for 32 degrees N. Berryville #520 (Updated 07-04) Location: Entrance drive to Berryville Graphics, 25 Jack Enders Blvd Remarks: This lovely horizontal dial was originally located in New York City NY on the grounds of the Doubleday & Co. book manufacturing plant. It was subsequently moved to Berryville VA in 1956, and is now part of Berryville Graphics. The sundial stands about 4 feet high and has a brass reproduction of the Gutenberg Bible of Forty Two Lines (originally produced around 1455) and the hour markers are brass plates of twelve printers' marks from the earliest printers. 2 Photos Fairfax #432 (Updated 12-00) Location: Garden of Time at the Fairfax Memorial Park on Braddock Rd, one mile east of George Mason University. Remarks: This bronze equatorial dial is about four feet in diameter with a 6 inch equatorial band containing raised Roman hour numbers from 5am to 7pm. The band is graduated every ten minutes and is offset by approximately 8 minutes to read Eastern Zone Apparent Time. The gnomon is a simple arrow without nodus. The octagonal dial base is made of brown marble panels approximately 5 feet high with a smaller octagon on top approximately 1 foot high that supports the dial. Each octagon is capped with thick granite. The base is a masoleum, with alternate octagonal sides each containing 8 crypts. Photo Fredericksburg #193 (Updated 07-07) Location: Garden of Mary Washington House - West corner of Lewis and Charles Streets. Must get through the house from main door on Charles Street. Remarks: A 7 inch diameter brass horizontal dial with 3.5 inch high brass gnomon on a weathered octagonal stone pedestal. Reported to be contemporary with Mary Ball Washington's occupancy of this house in the 1780s. 2 Photos Leesburg #255 (Updated 06-99) Location: Oatlands Plantation, 6 miles south of Leesburg on US Route 15 Reference: NASS Compendium, Vol. 6, No. 2 - June 1999 Remarks: A small bronze horizontal dial on a 18x 18 inch block of marble. Pedestal of Tennessee marble rests on the back of a carved tortoise. The sides of the square block capital are deeply carved with oak leaves and acorns. When the dial was seen in 1998, the dial was not aligned to north. Photo Louisa #594 (Updated 07-07) Location: Tanyard Golf and Country Club 404 E. Main St. Louisa, VA. Call 540-967-1889. Remarks: An internal cylindrical dial built in a 16 foot diameter, 48 foot tall farm silo now located on a public golf course. The rim of the open top of the silo provides an elliptical shadow line on the inner wall of the silo. This is marked out with red hour lines and black date lines using the low point of the shadow on the wall as the time marker. The artwork has "three panels representing the continuity of man's perceptions of space: past, present, and future. 2 Photos Link Monticello #470 (Updated 03-02) Location:Monticello - North Terrace Remarks: A replica of Jefferson's lost dial, which he recounted in 1817, "My dial captivates every body foreign as well as home-bred, as a handsome object & accurage measurer of time." Made according to Jefferson's design, the dial is a 10-1/2 inch sphere with horizontal lines drawn for the equator, tropic of cancer and capricorn. Longitudinal lines are drawn between the two tropics to indicate the hours of the day. A gnomon fixed to the poles swings around the globe until it casts the smallest meridian shadow. The base was originally a model of a capital, the top part of a column, that Latrobe had designed for the U.S. Capitol. It was unique, featuring ears of corn in motif. When Jefferson received the base from Latrove, "it looked bald for want of something to crown it" and so Jefferson designed a globe that "might be made to perform the functions of a dial." Mt. Vernon #167 Location: Mt. Vernon, center of courtyard, west front of house. Remarks: The original dial is is kept in the house. It is badly worn and virtually illegible. This replica has an 8-pointed compass rose in the center, and Roman numerals from 5 AM to 7 PM. The hour intervals are graduated into two-minute increments, with arabic numerals 20-40-60 at appropriate places between the hour lines. Photo Reston #369 (Updated 07-07) Location: At entrance to Vernon Walker Nature Education Center, 11450 Glade Center Drive, Reston, VA Reference: NASS Compendium, Vol. 6, No. 4 - Dec 1999 Remarks: A modernistic seven foot diameter flagstone horizontal dial with hour lines. The design features a gnomon of folded stainless steel plate. Gnomon is truncated too short for shadow to reach edge of dial face. 2 Photos Richmond #173 (Updated 10-03) Location: Science Museum of Virginia, 2500 W. Broad St. Remarks: Built in 1981 after an article in Scientific American (Dec 1980 "The Amateur Scientist") described a computer program for building a gnomonic dial with analemma hour lines. The dial was painted on the museum's parking lot, using a ball atop a 25 ft aluminum flagpole as the nodus. Semi-annual analemmas were painted in different colors, allowing correction for the equation of time. The dial was refurbished June 1992. Toddsbury #69 Location: ? Remarks: Horizontal in brass. (ref: Mayall, p.47) Williamsburg #115 (Updated 11-07) Location: Bruton Parish Church Remarks: A 14 inch square brass horizontal dial with hour lines and Roman numerals, compass rose and inscriptions honoring John Barrow. A fluted square pillar supports the dial. 2 Photos Link Williamsburg #116 (Updated 08-94) Location: College of William and Mary, in the Academic Mall Reference: NASS Compendium, Vol. 6, No. 1 - March 1999 Remarks: A late 17th or early 18th century horizontal dial with subsidiary rings for London, Vienna, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Barbados, and Mexico City. A reproduction, the original is in Zollinger Museum and there are other replicas on the campus. 3 Photos Williamsburg #363 (Updated 02-99) Location: Camp Chickahominy Boy Scout Camp Remarks: Bronze horizontal dial 36 inches in diameter. The sundial was constructed in memory of Scoutmaster Sydney "Mike" Mitchell. The cost was donated by former scouts and friends. The Boy Scout Law is cast around the outer diameter of the sundial and Scouting awards that the Scoutmaster received are cast into the dial. Woodbridge #534 (Updated 03-05) Location: Freedom High School, 15201 Neabsco Mills Road, Woodbridge VA Remarks: A large 62 foot diameter horizontal sundial of grey concrete and brick with a 10 foot high steel gnomon. The dial was designed to memorialize the victims of the 9/11/2001 terrorism and includes four inlaid plaques on which the gnomon shadow falls at 8:45, 9:03, 9:37 and 10:07 AM, the times of the four air crashes. Hour markers are inset brass Roman numerals. The hour lines and NESW compass rose are 2 inch wide inset brass strips. In memory of the citizens of Prince William Country and other Americans who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. 2 Photos |
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Anacortes #212
Location: City Hall, 6th St & Q Ave. Remarks: Vertical in marine plywood and aluminum, gnomon and struts of copper plumbing pipe. By Richard L. Threet. Refurbished by him in 1992. Goldendale #242 (Updated 06-00) Location: Goldendale Observatory State Park, north of the main building in the Observatory Compound Reference: Sky & Telescope, April 1981, p.296 Remarks: 53-inch semicircular steel equatorial ring, 18-inches wide. The 18-inch rod gnomon is suspended above the dial by two horizontal rods. A small cross-bar in the middle of the gnomon acts as a nodus for telling the date. A mechanical adjustment allows for the equation of time correction. The dial is mounted on a large boulder. Photo Maryhill #241 Location: Stonehenge Memorial Remarks: "Stonehenge" in reinforced concrete, 180' across. Duplicates, as nearly as possible size and design of the original. Outer circle of 30 16' pillars, inner circle 40 pillars 9' high. Built by Sam Hill as a memorial to servicemen of Klickitat Co. Washington who died in WWI. Olympia #319 (Updated 12-03) Location: In front of the State House Remarks: A 6 foot horizontal dial in hand-hammered brass with a bronze rod gnomon. The dial plate has eight bas-relief panels depicting events in Washington State's history. See the link for details. Rests on a large slab of Wilkenson sandstone, the same material used in the nearby State Library. Supported on four one foot, nine inch tall piers. 2 Photos Link Renton #524 (Updated 08-04) Location: Time Square Plaza, 500-800 SW 39th Street (near I-405/SR 167 Interchange) Remarks: The largest horizontal dial in the state of Washington. A 20 foot tall stainless steel gnomon is centered in a 44 x 60 foot elliptical face. Five colors of concrete define distinct parts of the dial. The 8 o’clock and 5 o’clock hour lines are walkways between buildings. Other hour lines have concrete benches. Stainless steel discs mark the hours; bronze discs indicate Daylight Savings Time. 2 Photos Seattle #577 (Updated 05-07) Location: Main lobby of Seattle Public Library 2401 24th Avenue East Remarks: A colored-aperture projection calendrical sundial with one functional and four decorative 18 inch round clear stained glass apertures. Markings on floor indicate positions of projected orange light spot at solar noon from the spring to fall equinox. An additional noon mark indicates opening date of library. 3 Photos Link Seattle #315 (Updated 01-04) Location: West side of Webster (Playground) Park, 3014 NW 67th Street Remarks: An interesting equatorial dial 30 inches in diameter of bronze and terrazzo, sitting upon a tapered cylindrical concrete pedestal . The face is plainly decorated with a gnomon pole about 1.5 inches in diameter. At the end of the gnomon is a globe with continents in relief. Photo Link Seattle #306 Location: Shoreline Pool, 19030 1st Pl. NE. Remarks: Bronze sculpture (?) Seattle #117 Location: University of Washington, wall of the Physics / Astronomy Building Remarks: Vertical. Declines 36°34' W. By Woodruff Sullivan. Photo Seattle #74 Location: Gasworks Park, On top of the Great Mound, overlooking Lake Union Remarks: Analemmatic. Viewer becomes the gnomon. Restored in 1998 Photo |
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Kohler #290 (Updated 07-07)
Location: Kohler Village at Intersection of Riverside Dr and Maiden Lane. Waelderhaus Building, East Side. Remarks: A direct east vertical dial, ornately painted onto the side of the Waelderhaus at Kohler Village. The dial is painted in gold and white with flourishes. A top scroll shows hours with Arabic numerals while a bottom scroll shows the hours with Roman numerals. Lines for solstice, equinox, and signs of the zodiac are drawn across the faces of the dial. Photo La Crosse #217 (Updated 07-07) Location: University of Wisconsin La Crosse Campus At the intersection of Vine St. and 17th St. Remarks: A 40 inch diameter armillary on a 2 foot tall cement cubic base. The original analemma- shaped gnomon was missing and replaced with a section of loose ordinary electric wire. Includes a longitude-correction plaque showing the corrections throughout 15 degrees longitude. Robert Allen states that this dial is a scaled down version of the one at the San Diego Zoological Garden, and that there is a similar one at Williams College in Williamstown MA. Photo Milwaukee #381 (Updated 07-07) Location: University of Wisconsin. Merrill Hall, Corner of N. Downer Ave. and E. Hartford Ave. Reference: NASS Compendium, Vol. 5, No. 4 - Dec 1998 Remarks: A vertical direct south in cast iron and brick. Photo River Falls #185 (Updated 07-07) Location: University of Wisconsin S. wall of Kleinpell Fine Arts Building Between S. 4th and S. 6th St, south of E. Cascade Ave. Remarks: A 30 x 56 foot vertical dial of anodized aluminum with analemmic hour markers, 'Day Lines' for winter and summer solstice, Candelmas (1/31), Martinmas (11/10), Beltane (5/8) and Lammas (8/4), vernal and autumnal equinoxes. Massive south-facing vertical dial taking up the entire wall of the three-story fine arts building. The hour markers are gold on the 'Spring' side and brown on the 'Fall' side with 7 day intervals marked on each. 2 Photos Link Sheboygan Falls #550 (Updated 05-06) Location: The Bull at Pinehurst Farms, a Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course. On the patio below the club house. Remarks: A 20 inch octagonal dial of bluestone on a 28 inch high base. The gnomon matches the latitude angle and the hour lines are approximate for a generalized geographic area. Photo Waukesha #512 (Updated 11-03) Location: At the west end of main street in Veteran Park Remarks: At the west end of main street in Veteran Park. A large horizontal dial in a circular plaza made of tan concrete and red brick. The concrete gnomon stands about 16 feet tall. No hour lines are drawn on the plaza, but the hours are set in a circular ring at the edge of the plaza. 2 Photos |
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Casper #367 (Updated 12-99)
Location: Casper Planetarium Reference: NASS Compendium, Vol. 6, No. 4 - Dec 1999 Remarks: The horizontal dial is a bronze circle 13.4 inches in diameter with raised lines and numbers and mounted on an iron plate on a pedestal of green stone. The angle of the gnomon is roughly 20 degs, and the hour lines are designed for a latitude of about 22 deg, clearly not designed for Casper's latitude of 43 deg N. Photo Laramie #159 (Updated 06-00) Location: Episcopal Church, center of town. Remarks: An ornate 18 inch brass horizontal dial sits on a massive four-stone block pedestal. The dial has hour lines from 4am to 8pm, with hours in Roman numerals and 5-minute intervals. The 12-noon mark is 3/8 inch wide, allowing for the gnomon, which is missing. Photo |
