Sundials of North America

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	Ambridge	Pennsylvania	USA	Polyhedral Dial	104
	In the garden of Old Economy Village is a 1964 reproduction of the historic 1825 original keep safety indoors. The 9-inch stone dial has four vertical dials on the E,W, N and S sides and one horizontal dial on top. The replica is in fair shape where the engraved hour lines are now severely weathered. The replica five iron gnomons are in fair condi...
	Bala Cynwyd	Pennsylvania	USA	Vertical Dial	1023
	This is a statuary of a saddened maiden leaning over a vertical dial. The hour lines are thick lines radiating from the foot of the gnomon from 5am to 5pm. The maiden's hand lays over the bronze gnomon. In the center of the dial is a compass rose. This may be an 18th century statuary, a cast copy of a dial and statue in London.
	Carnegie	Pennsylvania	USA	Equatorial Dial	911
	Anthony Vitale, a life-long steel worker and internationally know metal sculptor, designed a dial for the place he once worked: Carnegie Steel. He started with a flat length of steel 72 inches long, selected the distance between hour lines to be 6 inches, delineated in 15 minute intervals. The result was an equatorial half-ring 45.836 inches in dia...
	Chatham Village	Pennsylvania	USA	Horizontal Dial	907
	This bronze dial is about 12 inches in diameter. The outside chapter ring is delineated in 15 minute intervals with hours shown in Roman numerals from 4am-8pm. The gnomon has the profile of a bird under the style. Unfortunately the photos show that the gnomon has been installed backward on the dial. At the south end of the sundial is the classic ...
	Elizabethtown	Pennsylvania	USA	Vertical Dial	451
	A 4x4 foot marble vertical dial declining 25° east of south with a copper gnomon, located above the center entrance of the Grand Lodge Hall and overlooking the formal garden of the Masonic Village of Elizabethtown. The dial face includes hour lines with half hour and ten minute marks and Roman numerals. An inscription, "ANNO DOMINI MCMXII" is loca...
	Farrell	Pennsylvania	USA	Sculpture or Artwork	519
	"Rising Rings" is a cast iron band 11 feet high by 17 feet in diameter with a hole that casts a beam of light onto a central ring monument on the equinoxes. The dial was commissioned by Dr. Swraj Paul, a steel mill owner, to honor his daughter Ambika who died in 1968 of leukemia at age four. This monument honors the inspiration her joy of life in...
	Franklin Center	Pennsylvania	USA	Equatorial Dial	139
	A modernistic equatorial dial about 6 feet in diameter. The analemma shaped gnomon casts standard time onto a wide metal semicircle band. The hours with 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...
	Gettysburg	Pennsylvania	USA	Horizontal Dial	699
	An elaborate gold-colored horizontal dial located on the front lawn of the Eisenhower National Historical Site. The dial was a gift of the National Watch and Clock Collectors. Dial face includes hour lines with Roman hour numerals and a poetic verse describing time.
	Gettysburg	Pennsylvania	USA	Horizontal Dial	700
	A hexagonal bronze horizontal dial located on the rear lawn of the Eisenhower National Historical Site. The dial was a gift of the Radio and Television Correspondents Association. Dial face includes hour lines with Roman hour numerals and the inscription Tempus Fugit. The dial and a small plaque are mounted on a 120 mm artillery shell.
	Greenville	Pennsylvania	USA	Horizontal Dial	912
	This bronze dial is about 14 inches in diameter with a coarse near-white patina. Time is delineated in 5 minute intervals from 4:30am to 5:30pm. The hours are marked in Roman numerals and includes a gnomon gap for a fairly thick gnomon. The dial sits on on square stone pillar and thick plinth. Measurement of the gnomon angle agrees with with lat...
	Hannover	Pennsylvania	USA	Vertical Dial	1131
	This is a "virtual" sundial of a horizontal pole near the roof line casting a shadow onto the curved wall in front of the school building.that faces due south. No hour lines or declination lines have been painted on the wall, but there is a shadow "map" indicating where the nodus shadow is throughout the year (see photo #3). As an educational too...
	Haverford	Pennsylvania	USA	Horizontal Dial	1019
	A rectangular horizontal dial about 18 x 12 inches. Heavily weathered, but Roman hour lines from 6am to 6pm with noon gap still visible. Original 5 minute hour marks barely visible on rim. The gnomon went missing some years ago and was retrieved on eBay, and is retained by the college.
	Haverford	Pennsylvania	USA	Vertical Dial	1020
	Vertical dial about 2-foot square high up on the east wing of KINSC. The limestone dial is embedded in the stone block wall. The declining dial has hour lines every half hour from 5am to 4:30pm. The gnomon is in excellent condition and has not left brass stains on the dial face.
	Haverford	Pennsylvania	USA	Vertical Dial	1021
	This bronze vertical dial is about 2x3 feet with a splotched green patina. The hour lines and Roman markers go from 5am to 7pm. The tip of the gnomon shadow shows the date among declination lines from solstice to solstice. It is inscribed as an analemmatic dial, but only because at the noon hour is the trace of the analemma. Considering the mot...
	Haverford	Pennsylvania	USA	Vertical Dial	1022
	Not too far up the wall of Union Hall is this vertical rectangular dial about 2x3 foot in size. The limestone dial is embedded in the stone block wall. The declining dial has hour lines every half hour from 5am to 6pm, but the gnomon is missing, leaving only a bronze stain on the light stone face. Most disturbing is a magnolia tree planted by the ...
	Hollidaysburg	Pennsylvania	USA	Horizontal Dial	437
	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.
	Kennett Square	Pennsylvania	USA	Analemmatic Dial	328
	37.2 ft x 23.8 ft. This is probably the world's largest analemmatic, unusually designed to show standard time directly. It took 8 years of daily readings to perfect the sundial, which is accurate to within 2 minutes. Hour markers are bronze Roman numerals. Minute lines inscribed in limestone curbing. The gnomon itself is a moveable pole that i...
	Kennett Square	Pennsylvania	USA	Horizontal Dial	329
	Dating from 1976, this "secret" garden room (once a sundial garden with boxwood parterre) was designed by Thomas Church and is on the western side of the 1908 Square Fountain pool. The ground level horizontal dial is limestone with an iron gnomon. Hour lines identified by Roman numerals; hours divided into minutes. Hour line distribution adjusted f...
	Lampeter	Pennsylvania	USA	Vertical Dial	545
	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.
	Lancaster	Pennsylvania	USA	Heliochronometer	875
	This 7.5 inch diameter heliochronometer was milled out of aluminum and set to the site latitude with a mounting plate. One heliochronometer arm has a sun illumination counter sunk hole 0.125 inch in diameter and on the other arm an engraved analemma for proper pointing offset to display civil time. Time marks are milled at 5 minute intervals, an...
	Lewisburg	Pennsylvania	USA	Cylindrical Dial	445
	A large, ornate equatorial dial of brass sits outside the physics department building. The dial is approximately 8 ft (2.4m) across. Two pillars with brass balls support the dial plate. Two more pillars with ball support the gnomon wire. To add a flourish, the north most pillar and ball have a spread eagle holding the gnomon wire in its mouth. ...
	Meadville	Pennsylvania	USA	Horizontal Dial	905
	The sun dial was given to the college in 1909 by the Class of '99 as a memorial on their tenth anniversary. It consists of an elegant bronze dial showing time from 6am-6pm delineated in 15 minute increments. Hours are shown in Roman numerals. The gnomon has the number "99" beneath the style. The dial is mounted on a granite pedestal forty inches ...
	Meadville	Pennsylvania	USA	Horizontal Dial	906
	This patina dial shows lots of wear. Although it sits on an elegant helical pedestal. The dial has a compass rose and from measurements of both the dial and gnomon, it was constructed for London at 51 degrees. This is further supported by the hour extent from 4am to 8pm. The hours are delineated in irregular 5 minute marks with hours shown as Ro...
	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	USA	Horizontal Dial	146
	A 10 inch diameter horizontal dial on a 40 inch tall square marble pedestal with dedication plaque. Gnomon is missing.
	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	USA	Vertical Dial	147
	Evelyn Taylor Price Memorial Sundial A vertical dial within a bronze sunflower held overhead in the outstretched arms of the bronze sculpture of two children. Dial is a vertical south decliner with hour marks from 6am to 6pm in Roman numerals.
	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	USA	Horizontal Dial	148
	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 P...
	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	USA	Horizontal Dial	150
	A 21 inch diameter horizontal dial on three foot brick pedestal. Hour lines only. Gnomon reclined. Made in 1989 to commemorate Bicentennial of the General Assembly Presbyterian Church (USA). Visible through locked gates.
	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	USA	Horizontal Dial	156
	A 1 foot diameter bronze horizontal dial in backyard garden. May be from 18th century. The gnomon is shaky for its bolts are loose. Style angle is about 51deg, an angle for London, not for Philadelphia.
	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	USA	Horizontal Dial	157
	A 1 foot diameter bronze horizontal dial on a square granite pedestal 3 feet tall. Possibly made in 18th century. Beautiful engraving.
	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	USA	Analemmatic Dial	158
	Analemmatic dial with bronze standing figures.
	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	USA	Horizontal Dial	160
	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 52deg
	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	USA	Equatorial Dial	741
	An equatorial projection dial with a 12 inch diameter stainless steel equatorial ring incised with Arabic hour numerals that project onto a grooved central support shaft of Cipollino and Carrara marble set on a bluestone foundation. A hole near the top of the central marble shaft emits flowing water that runs down the central groove and is recircu...
	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	USA	Horizontal Dial	1016
	In a small plaza is a beautiful bronze statue of Pan with Flute. The statue is 36 x 20 x 18 inches. His shoulder is bent to hold a 12-inch bronze sundial. Along the edge of the dial are Roman hour marks from 5am to 7pm. "In 1938, Mrs. William Stansfield presented the bronze statue, “Pan with Sundial,” to the University in memory of her husb...
	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	USA	Noon Mark or Meridian Dial	1017
	This meridian dial titled "The Point Where Things Change" was commissioned by the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia. It is a large 8-foot (2.4m) diameter hoop aligned north-south. The gray painted hoop is supported at its base, covered by a narrow steel sheet cone also painted gray. The meridian dial and cone are slightly raise...
	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	USA	Horizontal Dial	1047
	In the middle of the Girard green in a large central plaza is an impressive stone dais with a square pillar rising several feet. On top is a 12-inch square dial with a smooth green patina. The dial has a wide gnomon offset to point to true north. The most striking thing is the Roman numerals that seem "upside down" from most horizontal dials. T...
	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	USA	Horizontal Dial	229
	Bronze horizontal dial by Alexander Stirling Calder. Local Hour lines plus EoT monthly corrections and differences between 12 world cities. Tip of gnomon appears damaged. The elegant pedestal sculpture is made of white marble and depicts 4 seated young women as the four seasons holding the dial plinth on their shoulders. The plinth itself is intri...
	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania	USA	Horizontal Dial	641
	A 12 inch octagonal carved sandstone horizontal dial with Roman hour numerals from 4 AM to 8 PM. The gnomon is missing. Dial face includes carved figures of a snake and a thistle and is marked latitude 40° 35'. The 1763 date ascribed to the dial's origin is coincident with the relief of the siege of Fort Pitt during Pontiac's Rebellion in that yea...
	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania	USA	Horizontal Dial	908
	This granite memorial octagonal sundial is approximately 5 feet across. The top is unadorned, containing only the delineated hour lines in 15 minute intervals and hour marks in Roman numerals from 5am-7pm. The gnomon has a sharp style
	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania	USA	Sculpture or Artwork	909
	The memorial is positioned and shaped to capture sunlight through its vertical spaces. While the sun travels the horizon, columns of light shine onto the ground, highlighting words engraved in the stone below that express individual and shared experiences about the war.
	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania	USA	Horizontal Dial	436
	Horizontal dial about 24 inches in diameter. The stone pedestal is decorated with bronze plaques and Veterans of Foreign War seals on each of the four sides. Now has an open metal base Lost its gnomon in 1982. Was moved to current site from Memorial Hall when a parking lot was built 1989-91. Now dial has been removed.
	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania	USA	Horizontal Dial	107
	In May of 1914, a beautiful sundial was erected in Schenley Park in memory of the Pittsburgh Blues, a company sent out from Pittsburgh. To remember this event Pennsylvania Chapters including the Keystone Chapter, Old Ironsides Chapter, General Robert Patterson Chapter, and the Stephen Decatur Chapter participated in the famous grave marking ceremo...
	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania	USA	Horizontal Dial	108
	A bronze and well patina circular horizontal dial about 18 inches in diameter. The dial is delineated in 10-minute increments with Arabic hour numbers. Dial sits atop a plain circular column. The gnomon is plain, secured to the dial plate with four bolts.
	Sewickley	Pennsylvania	USA	Analemmatic Dial	910
	Sewickley is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 12 miles (19 km) west northwest of Pittsburgh along the Ohio River. Riverpark was created in 2010 with a meandering path. At one stop is a plain analemmatic sundial approximately 15 feet across on a gravel bed. Hour markers are granite stones showing 4am-8pm. The analemmatic walkway has e...
	Skippack	Pennsylvania	USA	Analemmatic Dial	650
	A concrete and engraved brick analemmatic dial set in a garden of crushed rock.
	State College	Pennsylvania	USA	Horizontal Dial	913
	The Dr. Joel N. Myers Sundial monumental sundial is truly a masterpiece in time. The 11 foot tall black granite gnomon seems to grow out of a larger granite block. Time is marked by the several rows of low, large flat stones, 25 in all. They are set for summer solstice (first row), equinox (second row that has the stones all in a liner), and wint...
	State College	Pennsylvania	USA	Analemmatic Dial	835
	A simple analemmatic dial about 12 feet across. Square unmarked flagstone or pavers mark the hours. The walkway has a concrete base covered by the same flagstone or pavers. The walkway months are embossed in the stone. The dial was an Eagle Scout project of Oakes Spivey and Boy Scout Troop 50, Park Forest, State College
	Swarthmore	Pennsylvania	USA	Vertical Dial	35
	Modern design for a vertical dial declining 20.5 deg east on a stone block wall. The gnomon is a right-angled sheet of bronze, casting shadows onto granite hour marks from 6am to 4pm. 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 "h...
	Swarthmore	Pennsylvania	USA	Horizontal Dial	1018
	This octagonal dial was given to Swarthmore in memory of their classmate Howard White Jr. The dial was originally placed in the Scott Arboretum on Parish Lawn but was removed for pathway reconfiguration in 2006. An alum Bob Thompson found that the dial was stored under the bleachers alongside Skallerup Track. n honor of Thompson’s 92nd birthday...
	York	Pennsylvania	USA	Analemmatic Dial	1132
	This analemmatic sundial is in a circular plaza about 20 feet (6m) in diameter. The dial has Arabic numbers 6am to 6pm, centered on 12 noon with no longitude correction (only about 7 minutes of time). The zodiac walkway is unusual in that it reverses the left-right position of June and July, simulating the analemma figure 8 pattern. The adjoinin...