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Sundial 399
- Dial City: Centerport
- Dial State/Province: New York
- Dial Country: USA
- Lat: 40° 54.387' N
- Dial Nr: 399
- Dial Type: Vertical Dial
- Dial Access: Public
- Lon: 73° 22.108' W
- Dial Owner: Vanderbilt Museum
- Dial Designer: Possilbly Warren & Wetmore, architects
- Dial Maker: Painter Unknown
- Dial Date: circa 1926
- Location:
- Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum 180 Little Neck Rd Centerport, NY 11721 Within the east gardens of the museum is a vertical dial constructed as a very colorful wall mural
- Description:
- The vertical dial is a very colorful wall mural with a nautical theme. The wall faces south west with Roman numerals for hour marks. The gnomon is Neptune's trident supported by a very small three dimensional serpent. Summer and Winter solstices and Equinox are drawn on the dial. Above the dial is a mural of the four winds blowing. There is an ornate painted frame around the gnomon which itself is centered on a golden sun
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- Other References:
- The date of dial construction is unknown, but in 1922 Vanderbilt opened the "Hall of Fishes". In the villa's expansion that theme may have continued to the sundial mural.
Last Update:
2025-11-14 18:03