Sundial 500
- Dial City: Colorado Springs
- Dial State/Province: Colorado
- Dial Country: USA
- Lat: 38° 50.977' N
- Dial Nr: 500
- Dial Type: Horizontal Dial
- Dial Access: Public
- Lon: 104° 49.770' W
- Dial Owner: City of Colorado Springs
- Dial Designer: Probably Nicholas van der Arend
- Dial Maker: Probably van Briggle Pottery
- Dial Date: 1914
- Location:
- Monument Valley Park, east side of Glen Street, approximately 150 meters south of Uintah St. Near I-25
- Description:
- An old horizontal dial approx 60 cm diameter. From 1914-1967 was located at Marksheffel Garage, relocated to Monument Valley Park in 1967. The builder may have been van Briggle Pottery, but its history is more complex: The angles of the hour lines are consistent with a latitude of 43.9° (roughly) but the present location is 38.9°. A gnomon (probably not original) was cut for 34° lat, but has now been corrected. Likewise, the whole dial had to be rotated to true north, being off by some 47°. Hour lines have eroded, and those before 6am and after 6pm radiate from the wrong side of the gnomon. The city has spent a considerable amount of money cleaning up the area, removing the shrubs that blocked sunlight and building a nice brick wall with flowerbeds, so the area looks better, but the dial is worse than ever, with vandals bending the gnomon. Dial has been replaced with a statue
- Inscription:
- Inscription: TIME MAKES LOVE GO, LOVE MAKES TIME GO. Inscribed around base, metal markings, in good condition
- Other References:
- Rregistered with the Smithsonian Institution.
Last Update:
2019-07-20 17:20