Temporary, relocated or defunct
North American tower bell instruments

Some carillons and chimes in North America were installed temporarily in expositions or fairs of various kinds.  Many of these were later reinstalled elsewhere.  Other carillons were relocated from their original places of installation for various reasons.  And some have been destroyed or stolen, and were not replaced.  There are no site data pages for such sites, so they cannot be indexed in the same manner as extant instruments.  Hence this page.

The lists below present, in appropriate orders, the original locations of such instruments, without distinction between traditional and non-traditional mechanisms.

NOTE: Tower bell instruments which have been down-sized (e.g., from carillon to chime) or downgraded (from traditional to non-traditional action), but which remain in their original locations, are not listed here.  They can be found on a page about degraded instruments.

EXPOSITIONS:

Carillons known to have been part of various North American exhibitions or expositions, or to have come to North America after being in expositions elsewhere, are listed in approximately chronological order, with links to their current locations when known:

1867
Exposition Universelle, Paris, France
The carillon built by Bollée of LeMans for St.Joseph's Cathedral, Buffalo, NY (see below) was exhibited here before export to the USA.

1924
British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, England
The traditional carillon built by Gillett & Johnston for Simcoe, ON was exhibited here before export to Canada.

1933-34
World's Fair, Chicago, IL
A Michiels carillon which was displayed here became the foundation for the present traditional carillon of Norwich University, Northfield, VT.

1939-40
World's Fair, New York, NY
A Michiels carillon which was in the Belgian Pavilion is now in Stanford University, near Palo Alto, CA.
A vanBergen carillon which was in the Dutch Pavilion is now in Greenwood, SC.
A smaller vanBergen carillon, which was the "Garden Carillon" in the Dutch Pavilion, is now in New Brunswick, NJ.

1939-41
Golden Gate Exposition, San Francisco, CA
A Gillett & Johnston carillon which hung in the Tower of the Sun is now in Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA

1950 (summer)
U.S.International Trade Fair, Chicago, IL
A 37-bell traditional carillon by Petit & Fritsen was displayed at this fair, and was played by several GCNA members.  Later it was displayed at the "Foire Provinciale" (presumably a fair in the province of Quebec) and was played by another GCNA member.  Before the end of the year, this carillon was reported to be in Quebec City, but it is not there now, and its actual disposition is is unknown.  This site is identified in the database as 
        CHICAGO - TF50      : USA - IL

1958-59
World's Fair, Brussels, Belgium
A Petit & Fritsen carillon which hung in the Vatican Pavilion is now in Wilmington College, Wilmington, OH

1964-65
World's Fair, New York, NY
A light 25-bell traditional carillon by Eijsbouts hung in a small tower in the Belgian Pavilion (pictured on an Official Postcard by Dexter Press, West Nyak, NY).  The late James R. Lawson is known to have played this carillon on occasion. All but one of its bells were stolen out of the frame during the night after the Fair closed, presumably for their scrap metal value.  On a Website about that Fair there are two paragraphs of history of this instrument buried amongst that of the electronic devices which were being heavily publicized.  This site is identified in the database as 
        NEW YORK - WF64     : USA - NY

1967
World's Fair, Montreal, QU
The Eijsbouts foundry displayed a 28-bell carillon, the disposition of which is unknown.

Chimes known to have been part of various North American exhibitions or expositions are listed in approximately chronological order, with links to their current locations when known:

1850
Mechanics Fair, Boston, MA
Henry N. Hooper displayed an 11-bell chime at this fair, taking a silver medal for it and claiming that this was the second American-made chime.  Its disposition is unknown.  This site is identified in the database as 
        BOSTON - MF         : USA - MA

1850?
American Institute Fair, New York, NY
A 9-bell chime by either Meneely of West Troy or Jones of Troy (reports conflict) was displayed at this fair and won a gold medal, being the first completely American-made chime.  (But see the entry immediately above for a competing claim.  Also, the date of 1853 for the Meneely claim does not agree with the date of 1850 for the fair.)  This site is currently identified in the database as 
        NEW YORK - AIF   : USA - NY

1850-51
Mechanics Institute, Cincinnati, OH
In mid-1850, over a period of several months, George L. Hanks cast a heavy 11-bell chime with the assistance of Francis Mayer, who later worked as a bellfounder in St.Louis, MO.  Hanks exhibited the bells at the Mechanics Institute, and advertised them as a chime playable from a keyboard, but no record has been found of their installation as a chime elsewhere.  Since each bell was individually mounted for swinging, they were probably sold separately after being exhibited.  This site is identified in the database as 
        CINCINNATI - M      : USA - OH

1871
Cincinnati Exposition, Cincinnati, OH
A 15-bell chime was exhibited here by Vanduzen, with total weight of 7290 lbs.  Its disposition afterwards is unknown.  This site is identified in the database as 
        CINCINNATI - E/1    : USA - OH

1872
Cincinnati Exposition, Cincinnati, OH
A 9-bell chime was exhibited here by Vanduzen, with total weight of 5744 lbs.  Its disposition afterwards is unknown.  This site is identified in the database as 
        CINCINNATI - E/2    : USA - OH

1876
Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, PA
A 13-bell McShane chime which was exhibited in the Machinery Hall is now in Garden City, New York.

1893
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL
A 10-bell chime was exhibited by Vanduzen, and may have been the first chime they ever made.  Both Nashua, NH and Oakland, CA claim to have this chime now; further investigation is needed to resolve these competing claims.

1895
Cotton States Exposition, Atlanta, GA
A chime of unknown size was exhibited by Vanduzen.  Its disposition afterwards is unknown.  This site is identified in the database as 
        ATLANTA - CSE       : USA - GA

1905
Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition, Portland, OR
An 11-bell chime was exhibited at this fair by Vanduzen.  The disposition of the bells is not known, but it is suspected that they might now be at Los Angeles, CA (Hollywood Park Cemetery) or Scottdale, PA or Quincy, IL.  This site is currently identified in the database as 
        PORTLAND - LC  : USA - OR

RELOCATIONS:

Carillons which have been moved from their original city of installation to another place are listed in order by city name, with links to their current locations when known:

Boston, MA
The bookstore of Whittemore Associates had a light 25-bell carillon by Petit & Fritsen on its façade from 1951 until 1965, when the company and the carillon moved to Needham Heights (see below).

Dodge City, KS
The bells of the little automatic carillon installed in the College of St.Mary of the Plains in 1953 were sold to North Hennepin Junior College, Minneapolis, MN in 1994.

Lawrence, MA
First-Calvary Baptist Church was located here when they bought a light carillon from Whittemore Associates in Needham Heights (see below), but they have since moved to North Andover, MA.

John P. Hall Estate, Mechanicsburg, PA
Mr. Hall at one time owned four carillons, all made by Petit & Fritsen in 1980-82.  In 1992, they were all sold, as follows:
The 4-octave tower carillon was sold to Berea College, Berea, KY, where it eventually became part of the present traditional carillon.
The 3-octave traveling carillon was sold to an anonymous investor, and is now based in Pennsylvania, where it is part of the musical group "Cast in Bronze".
The second 3-octave carillon, never installed, was sold to the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (UPPR), where it is played only automatically.
The light 2-octave carillon was sold in three parts:

Ward-Belmont School, Nashville, TN
A 23-bell carillon was installed at this school by Gillett & Johnston in 1928.  In 1952 this instrument was sold to Schulmerich Carillons, Inc., Sellersville, PA, where it remains.  Ward-Belmont School was eventually succeeded by Belmont College, which acquired a new carillon in 1986, and later became Belmont University.

Needham Heights, MA
When Whittemore Associates moved here in 1965, they brought with them the light carillon which had been on the façade of their Boston building since 1951 (see above).  Sometime in the 1970s (when?), the company sold the carillon to First-Calvary Baptist Church, which was at that time in Lawrence, MA (see above).

Trinity Evangelical & Reformed Church, Philadelphia, PA
This church moved to Holland, PA in 1968 and brought its carillon along.  It is now Trinity Reformed Church, UCC.

St.Michael's & Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, PA
Some of the bells of this two-octave carillon, cast in 1930 by Franz Schilling Sons of Apolda, Germany, were lost before the church closed about 1973.  The remaining bells are now part of the automatic carillon at The Lutheran Home of Germantown.

San Fernando and Santa Monica, CA
The three octave traditional carillon of Saint Monica's RC Church in Santa Monica was dismantled in 1971 because of fears for the tower's stability in earthquakes.  The bells were later transferred to Mission San Fernando, where they were played only automatically.  In 2002 they were moved again, to the newly-built Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles.

West Potomac Park, Washington, DC
The Netherlands Carillon was located in a temporary wooden tower here from 1954 until it was installed in a permanent tower in Arlington, VA in 1960.

(mobile)
The Pepsi Carillon, a travelling carillon built in 1967-70 with bells by Petit & Fritsen, was disassembled in 1982.  The frame and keyboard went to the Hall Estate (see above), acquiring a new set of bells to form a new instrument; the original bells went to the Cathedral of the Assumption, Louisville, KY.

Chimes which have been moved from their original city of installation to another place are listed in order by city name, with links to their current locations when known:

Curran Memorial, Baltimore, MD
A 16-bell automatic chime was installed in 1979 by P&F, as part of the York Road Development Project.  Two lightning strikes silenced the mechanism, and it sat idle for several years.  In 2007, 12 of the 16 bells found a new home several blocks away.  The disposition of the other four is unknown.

Ivie Memorial Chapel of the Messiah, Bethlehem, NH
The 10-bell chime installed here in 1930 by Meneely (Troy) was purchased and removed in 2007 by Chime Master Systems and reportedly is available for resale.

Episcopal Church of the Nativity, Bridgeport, CT
The Jones foundry installed a light 10-bell chime here in 1860.  In 1953 the property was sold to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America; the bells were removed, and were installed two years later at St.Mark's Episcopal Chapel, Storrs, CT.

St.Mary's Church, Buffalo, NY
In 1882, McShane installed a chime of unknown size here.  The exact name and location of this church are uncertain, but it may have been St.Mary of Sorrows, also known as the Church of the Seven Dolors, Genesee and Rich Streets; that is now the M.L.King Urban Life Center.  In 1982, eight bells from that chime were installed in a park in Warren, PA.

Verdin Company, Cincinnati, OH
The Verdin Company installed a lightweight automatic chime with 14 bells from Petit & Fritsen on the south wall of Pendleton House in 1992.  By 2001 this chime had been sold; the buyer is unknown.  (The bells were replaced with shells, which may deceive the eye of the casual passer-by.)  This site is currently identified in the database as 
        CINCINNATI - V    : USA - OH

Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, NY
This amusement park (which opened in 1897) contained a Chimes Tower holding 10 bells by Meneely/Troy; it was played hourly from a chimestand in a cabin far below the open belfry.  The bells survived a fire which destroyed most of the park in 1907, and in 1909 they were transferred to Our Lady of Solace Catholic Church, Brooklyn, NY (see below).

River Ridge Farm, Franklin, PA
An 11-bell chime was made by Meneely/Troy in 1914 and installed in a freestanding tower on the estate of J.C.Sibley.  In 1948, the farm was sold to the White Fathers, who in 1967 sold the bells to the newly-built Church of Our Lady of Anjou in Montreal, Canada.

Trinity Temple United Methodist Church, Louisville, KY
A 12-bell chime made by Vanduzen (date unknown) was sold to Bob Brosamer in the summer of 2001, when the church was closed and the apartment building (photo, 723KB) which housed it was sold.  So far as is known, these bells have not yet been dispersed.  This site is currently identified in the database as 
        LOUISVILLE - TT   : USA - KY

Plymouth Congregational Church, Worcester, MA
A 10-bell chime was installed here by Meneely/Troy in 1881.  In 1936 this became Plymouth-Piedmont Congregational Church.  In 1941 that building was razed.  It is not known when the bells were sold nor where they were stored, but in 1952 they were installed in St.Ann's Catholic Church, Cleveland Heights, OH.

DEFUNCT:

Carillons which no longer exist are listed in order by city name:

St.Joseph's Cathedral (RC), Buffalo, NY
A carillon of 45 bells was purchased from Bollée in 1870, and installed in the recently-built south tower of St.Joseph's Catholic Cathedral.  But structural problems soon caused removal of most of its bells to storage.  When the "new" cathedral was built in 1912, 43 bells were installed in one of the twin towers, though not all of them were connected to the keyboard.  Structural problems again caused removal to storage in 1922 (or 1927), from which most were stolen in the course of the mid-to-late 20th century.  The largest of the survivors was donated to Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo; photos of it can be seen here.  (The cemetery owns seven more bells from the carillon, donated by someone else.)  This site is identified in the database as 
        BUFFALO - SJC       : USA - NY

Cathedral and Church of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Detroit, MI
A 35-bell Petit & Fritsen carillon was installed in 1951.  Some years later, after the church purchased an electronic imitation, the bells were offered for sale by the manufacturer of that device.  The actual disposition of the bells is unknown.  This site is identified in the database as 
        DETROIT - CBS       : USA - MI

Borough of Folcroft, PA
A 25-bell Petit & Fritsen carillon, probably lightweight and automatic, was installed 1994.  In 2002, Verdin bought the bells back.

vanBergen Bellfoundry, Greenwood, SC
A 32-bell carillon was installed on the foundry building in 1960.  By 1970, 18 bells had been sold as a chime to a church in Lawrenceville, GA; the rest are presumed to have been sold individually or in small groups.  This site is identified in the database as 
        GREENWOOD - VBF     : USA - SC

Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico City, DF
The first carillon in Mexico, installed in 1952, contained 42 bells from Petit & Fritsen.  After being played from a traditional keyboard for several years, it was put in storage, from which the bells were later stolen.  This site is identified in the database as 
        MEXICO CITY - IPN   : MEXICO

Atlantic United Methodist Church, North Quincy, MA
Twelve of the bells of this little carillon were sold to Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT to expand that traditional carillon.
The disposition of the remaining 13 bells is unknown.

Del Amo Fashion Center & Square, Torrance, CA
A 31-bell non-traditional carillon installed by Petit & Fritsen in 1982 was removed by 2003.  The disposition of these bells is unknown.

James F. Neumann residence, Yoakum, TX
A very light 25-bell automatic carillon was installed in 2000 by Meeks & Watson, using bells that had been removed from Elsah, IL.  When the owner was forced to move elsewhere, about two years later, he sold the bells and freestanding tower back to M&W.  Some of the larger bells were dispersed, while the remainder are in storage with the tower.

Chime-sized instruments and rings which no longer exist are listed in order by city name:

(location unknown)
Advertising material from the Blake foundry claims that they cast the first American-made chime in 1825.  Given the known history of the foundry, it seems more likely that this is a typographic error for 1852.  (But see Mechanics Fair, Boston, below.)  It has also been suggested that this was a recasting of a foreign-made ring or chime.  In any event, this chime has not been located and its disposition is unknown.

1856
Floating Palace circus showboat, Ohio River
A 14-bell chime from the Buckeye Bell Foundry was located on the roof of this, the first circus showboat ever built.  It was used to herald the approach of the boat until the invention of the steam calliope led to its replacement.  The date of manufacture of this lightweight chime (total only 2850 lbs) is uncertain, but it is known that this boat was in operation on the river during 1856.  This site is identified in the database as 
        OHIO RIVER          : USA - OH

Christ Church, Baldwinsville, NY
A 9-bell chime by Jones was installed in 1870.  In the late 20th c., it was dismantled and the bells were given away singly to other churches.

Christ Church (Episcopal), Baltimore, MD
A ring of six bells was cast in 1804 by Thomas Mears of London (Whitechapel), and was installed in the first Christ Church (at Baltimore and Front Streets) in 1805.  During the War of 1812, the bells were removed to be hidden from the British.  After the war, only three of them could be found; they were rehung in the same building.  Thus the six-bell ring lasted for less than ten years.

In 1835/6, Christ Church moved with its bells to its second building (location unknown).  In 1871, the congregation moved to its third building (the present location), taking at least one of the Mears bells with them; possibly one was left behind in the second building, which was then renamed Church of the Messiah.

In 1904, the Church of the Messiah was destroyed by fire, but some metal was recovered from the bell which hung there at the time; it is not clear whether this was one of the original Mears bells.

In 1908, Christ Church bought a chime of 13 bells from the McShane Bell Foundry; at that time at least one Mears bell was returned to the (now rebuilt) Church of the Messiah.

In 1920 the Messiah congregation moved to its present location on Harford Road, and in 1922 McShane cast for them a new bell made from (a) the metal of a Mears bell returned in 1908, (b) another bell which had hung in St.Andrew's Chapel, Harford Road, Hamilton, and (c) the bell metal recovered from the fire of 1904.  The inscription on that bell records part of the history given above.

It is not clear what happened to the other two Mears bells which had been recovered after the War of 1812, though perhaps one passed through the 1904 fire.

This ring does not have a separate entry in the database, since it had fewer than 8 bells; the later chime does (see above).

Martin Luther Ev.Lutheran Church, Baltimore, MD
An 11-bell chime installed by McShane in 1925 was sold back to the maker when the church was closed in 1996.  The McShane 'Chimes' catalog of 1928 included a page which depicts the building and describes the bells (all with inscriptions listed).  Without evidence of relocation, the bells are assumed to have been dispersed.  This site is identified in the database as 
        BALTIMORE - ML      : USA - MD

Grace Episcopal Church, Bath, ME
Six bells were installed by Meneely/West Troy in 1856.  Later in the 19th c., five more were added, yielding an 11-bell chime.  In the 1960s the tower was condemned and most of the bells were sold.  Four remain on an open frame, striking the quarter hours.

Our Lady of Solace Catholic Church, Brooklyn, NY
In 1909, Meneely/Troy installed here the 10 bells which had previously been in Steeplechase Park, Coney Island (see above); they were sold to Verdin in the mid-1990s.  Without evidence of relocation, the bells are assumed to have been dispersed.  This site is identified in the database as 
        BROOKLYN - OLS      : USA - NY

St.Philip's Episcopal Church, Charleston, SC
Francis Mayer cast 11 bells in 1848, using the foundry of Mr. Dyer of Philadelpia; the bells were installed here in 1849-50, along with a tune-playing tower clock, by Francis Stein of this city.  They were seized by the Confederate Army in 1862 to be recast into cannon.  This site is identified in the database as 
        CHARLESTON - STPH   : USA - SC

The First Church in Charlestown (UCC), Charlestown (Boston), MA
Henry N. Hooper of Boston made a chime of 16 bells for this church in 1868; they were given by the granddaughter of one of the settlers who founded Charlestown.  The chime was destroyed by fire in either 1934 or 1957, depending on how you read a history of the various "First Church" parishes in this town or an independent history of this church.

U.S. Playing Card Company, Cincinnati, OH
Meneely/Troy installed 12 bells in 1924, and bought them back some years later.  Without evidence of relocation, the bells are assumed to have been dispersed.  This site is identified in the database as 
        CINCINNATI - U      : USA - OH

Methodist Episcopal Church, Clinton, ??
Vanduzen was reported, by a usually reliable source, to have cast 9 bells for the M.E.Church of Clinton, IN; but the associated Zipcode was for Clinton, IL.  Visits to the Methodist churches of Clinton, IN, and Clinton, IL, proved that neither of those buildings could ever have held such a chime.  Discovery of a Vanduzen catalog from 1922 revealed that the destination had actually been Clinton, IA, and the total weight of the bells was 6067 lbs., but no date was given.  The First Methodist Church of Clinton, IA, erected its present building in 1903, and originally it had a round corner tower with belfry that might have held these bells.  (Or it might have held only the single bell which the church had in its previous building.)  The belfry was removed from that tower in the 1920s because of continued problems with leakage, and present church members have no knowledge of what it might have held.  The bells are presumed to have been scrapped.

Trinity Episcopal Church, Cleveland, OH
Meneely/Watervliet cast 9 bells for this church in 1854, possibly the first chime made by that foundry.  When the church was replaced by the new Trinity Cathedral c.1901-07, only one of the old bells was installed in the new tower; it is still rung by rope.  It is thought that the remaining bells of the chime may have been dispersed to mission churches.  This site is identified in the database as 
        CLEVELAND - T      : USA - OH

St.Bernard's Church, Cohoes, NY
A 9-bell chime by Jones was installed in 1871.  The spire of the 200' tower fell in a severe storm on 15 Feb. 1876, damaging the roof of the church and blocking adjacent railroad tracks.  However, at least some of the bells survived and were disposed of singly to churches at unknown locations in South Carolina.  This site is currently identified in the database as 
        COHOES - STB       : USA - NY

Trinity Lutheran Church, Connellsville, PA
Meneely/Watervliet made a 12-bell chime (in concert pitch) for this church in 1921.  Some time between 1946 and 1957, it was replaced by an electronic device; the fate of the bells is not known.

St.George's Episcopal Church, Dorchester, SC
A bell from Rudhall of England was installed in 1751; later this was augmented to a ring of 4.  Some years after the Revolutionary War, the church was disbanded and the bells were dispersed to other churches in South Carolina.  This site is not in the database, since it had fewer than 8 bells.

First United Methodist Church, Duluth, MN
Meneely/Troy made a 10-bell chime for this church in 1921.  When the church moved out of downtown in the 1960s, the bells were sold, but the purchaser is not known.

First Presbyterian Church, Dunkirk, NY
An 11-bell chime by Meneely/Troy was installed in 1902, incorporating a bell which had been delivered in 1882.  Weakness of the tower led to its being shortened in 1961; the bells were sold, but the purchaser is not known.

Catholic Trinity Church, Evansville, IN
A 9-bell chime by Jones was installed in 1873, and destroyed by fire in the 1950s.  This site is identified in the database as 
        EVANSVILLE - CT   : USA - IN

City Hall, Fall River, MA
An 11-bell chime by McShane was installed in this city in 1908; the location is uncertain.  Three of these bells were re-installed with an hour bell (from a separate source?) in a free-standing clock tower near the City Hall in 1981, and rededicated in 1992.  The other 8 bells are reported to be in storage.  This site is identified in the database as 
        FALL RIVER - CH   : USA - MA

Notre Dame Catholic Church, Fall River, MA
A chime of 15 bells was destroyed by fire in the early 1980s.  The bells had been obtained from France in 1924, and are thought to have been by Cornille-Havard.  Some of them swung.  This site is identified in the database as 
        FALL RIVER - ND   : USA - MA

Pratt Mausoleum, Glen Cove, NY
A 9-bell chime by Meneely/Troy was installed in 1893; the bells apparently disappeared during World War II.

Furman University, Greenville, SC
A chime of 10 bells, installed by Meneely/Watervliet in 1901, was located in a campanile attached to Main Hall on the old university campus in downtown Greenville.  After the University moved to its present site, the campanile was demolished (with the rest of the old campus); the disposition of the bells is unknown.  This site is identified in the database as 
        GREENVILLE - FU/1  : USA - SC
The tower which now houses the carillon at 
        GREENVILLE - FU/2  : USA - SC
was designed to be essentially identical to the old chime tower.

Trinity Lutheran Church, Hagerstown, MD
A chime of 9 or 10 bells, installed by Jones in 1870 or 1871, was removed in 1924, reportedly traded in on a 16-tube Deagan tower instrument.

St.Mary's Catholic Church, Hollidaysburg, PA
A 9-bell chime of unknown make and vintage was sold to the Verdin Company, date and ultimate destination unknown.

Orthodox Church, Honolulu, HI
A 9-bell chime was shipped by Meneely/Troy in 1887.  A note in the foundry records states that it was destroyed by fire.  No date is given, but it presumably was some time before the foundry closed in 1950.  Efforts to determine exactly where the church was located and when it was destroyed have been unsuccessful.  This site is identified in the database as 
        HONOLULU - O         : USA - HI

St.Paul's Lutheran Church, Indianapolis, IN
A 15-bell chime by Vanduzen was installed in 1900.  When the church moved to the suburbs in 1995, the old building was demolished and the heaviest 14 bells were sold to Bob Brosamer.  The treble remains at the new church.  This site is identified in the database as 
        INDIANAPOLIS - STPL  : USA - IN

St.Paul's Catholic Church, Jersey City, NJ
An 18-bell chime in concert pitch was supplied by Henry Stuckstede in the mid-1880s.  The C,E,G basses swung.  The bells were bought by the I.T.Verdin Co. no later than mid-1994 and dispersed.  This site is identified in the database as 
        JERSEY CITY - STPU   : USA - NJ

St.Cecilia's Catholic Church, Kearny, NJ
An 11-bell chime by McShane, of unknown date, was sold in 1994.  The buyer is unknown.

Christ Church (Episcopal), Little Rock, AR
An 11-bell chime installed by Meneely/Watervliet in 1903 was destroyed by fire in 1938.  This site is identified in the database as 
        LITTLE ROCK - CC     : USA - AR

Bible Institute, Los Angeles, CA (now Biola University, La Mirada, CA)
In October 1915, Meneely/Troy installed an 11-bell chime atop the Bible Institute building in downtown Los Angeles.  Some time in the 1960s, it was taken down and put in storage.  In 1987, five of the bells were installed in an open clock tower on the new campus, with Westminster quarters struck electrically.  The disposition of the other 6 bells is unknown.

First Presbyterian Church, Muncie, IN
A 15-bell chime by McShane was cast in 1925 and installed in 1926.  The McShane 'Chimes' catalog of 1928 included a page which depicts the building and describes the bells (with the inscription on the tenor).  The bells were sold or scrapped when the congregation moved to the present building in 1955.  This site is identified in the database as 
        MUNCIE - FP       : USA - IN

Home Suburban School, New Haven, CT
A light-weight chime of 9 bells from Jones was installed in 1860 for Rev. Alonzo G. Shears, who was rector of this school and assistant at St.Thomas Episcopal Church from 1855 to 1874.  It is known that the school was located on Dixwell Avenue, but no evidence of its later existence has been found, so it is assumed that the chime was scrapped.

Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church, New Orleans, LA
A 13-bell electric-action chime from Petit & Fritsen was installed by Verdin in 1953 to replace a 16-note Deagan tubular chime from 1926.  The bells were later removed (though the frame remains on the ceiling of the belfry), and the disposition of the bells is unknown.  This site is identified in the database as 
        NEW ORLEANS - SHJ : USA - LA

Holy Trinity Cathedral, New Westminster, BC
A ring of 8 bells from Whitechapel was installed in 1861.  All but the third (as counted by ringers) were destroyed by fire in 1898.

St.John's Catholic Church, New York, NY
A 10-bell chime was installed by Meneely/Troy in December, 1904.  It was removed by the same firm in June, 1939, but the disposition is unknown.  This site is identified in the database as 
        NEW YORK - STJN  : USA - NY

St.James Catholic Church, Newark, NJ
A 9-bell chime of unknown origin and date is thought to have been in what was the largest Newark church built prior to the Civil War (1854) and the tallest spire in the city.  (See photo and history.)  The building was demolished in 1979, but the disposition of the bells is unknown.  This site is identified in the database as 
        NEWARK - STJA  : USA - NJ

Niagara University (formerly DeVeaux School), Niagara Falls, NY
A 10-bell chime installed by Meneely/Troy in 1913 was sold to Verdin in November 1994.  Without evidence of relocation, the bells are assumed to have been dispersed.  This site is identified in the database as 
        NIAGARA FALLS - NU  : USA - NY

Van Leer estate, Normal, IL
A 10-bell chime installed by Meneely/Troy in 1940 has disappeared from its tower, which is now owned by the Immanuel Bible Foundation.

Circus, Philadelphia, PA
A very light weight 16-bell chime was sold by Vanduzen between 1873 and 1883.  Presumably the bells were scrapped when the circus closed.  This site is identified in the database as 
        PHILADELPHIA - C     : USA - PA

St.Stephen's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, PA
A 9-bell chime installed by Jones in 1853 was traded in for an electronic device many years ago.  This site is identified in the database as 
        PHILADELPHIA - STST  : USA - PA

Highland Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, PA
An 11-bell chime was installed by McShane in 1920.  The McShane 'Chimes' catalog of 1928 included a page which depicts the building and describes the bells (all with inscriptions listed).  The chime was sold to Verdin in the early 1980s, possibly when the congregation merged with another in the neighborhood.  The bells have been dispersed; it is uncertain whether the building still stands.  This site is identified in the database as 
        PITTSBURGH - H  : USA - PA

First Methodist Church, Plattsburgh, NY
An 11-bell chime installed by Meneely/West Troy in 1924 was destroyed by fire in 1957.  This site is identified in the database as 
        PLATTSBURGH - M  : USA - NY

St.Lawrence Congregational Church, Portland, ME
An 11-bell chime was installed in the former Union Congregational Church by McShane in 1896.  Previously there had been a 9-bell chime supplied by Meneely/West Troy in 1856; it is not known what happened to it nor why the replacement occurred.  The St.Lawrence congregation was dissolved in 1985, and ownership of the building was transferred to a foundation (name not known).  The building having become decrepit, the McShane chime was removed and sold in 1998; the purchaser and ultimate destination are unknown.  This site is identified in the database as 
        PORTLAND - STL  : USA - ME

Holy Communion Episcopal Church, Saint Louis, MO
An 11-bell chime was installed by McShane in 1921 in the building previously occupied by this congregation in the city.  When the congregation moved to the suburbs before World War II, the bells were taken along.  But then they stood on the ground behind the present building because the tower base was deemed to be too weak to hold them.  They were later sold; the buyer and date of sale are unknown.  This site is currently identified in the database as 
        SAINT LOUIS - HC  : USA - MO

University of Washington, Seattle, WA
A 12-bell chime named the "Blethen Bells" was installed by Meneely/Watervliet in 1912.  Located in a converted water tower, it was played regularly until its destruction by fire in 1949.  A University Webpage records the history and includes old photographs of the bells and tower.  This site is identified in the database as 
        SEATTLE - UW      : USA - WA

Grace Methodist Church, Sioux City, IA
An 11-bell chime installed by Meneely/Watervliet in 1908 was destroyed by fire in the mid-20th c.  This site is identified in the database as 
        SIOUX CITY - G    : USA - IA

Winslow Congregational Church (now Baptist Church of All Nations), Taunton, MA
A 10-bell chime installed by Meneely/Troy in 1903 was removed in 1998, but the disposition is uncertain.  This site is identified in the database as 
        TAUNTON - W       : USA - MA

Trinity Episcopal Church, The Woodlands, TX
A ring of 8 bells by Whitechapel (of unknown date), which originally hung in the church of St.Michael & All Angels, Blackburn, Lancashire, England, was installed here as a chime in 1984.  When the congregation moved to a larger facility in the same town, the bells and pre-fabricated tower were taken along, but not re-erected.  In 2005, the tower was sold to another church and the bells were sold to Verdin, who resold them piecemeal.

First-Metropolitan United Church, Victoria, BC
A 10-bell chime installed by Gillett & Johnston in 1938 was removed from the tower before the building was sold to the present owner, the Victoria Conservatory of Music.  The disposition of these bells is unknown.  This site is identified in the database as 
        VICTORIA - MUC    : CANADA - BC

Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church, Washington, DC
An 11-bell chime was installed by Jones in 1871.  At some point this was dismantled and put in storage.  Eventually the church decided not to build a new tower for the bells; in 1998 they were sold to Verdin, who dispersed them.  This site is identified in the database as 
        WASHINGTON - MM   : USA - DC

Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, West Chester, PA
A 10-bell chime installed by McShane in 1890 was removed in the early 1980s when the tower was taken down because of structural weakness.  The bells were dispersed, one remaining at the church.

NOTE: Defunct sites for which no database identification is listed are the only ones in their respective cities in the database which supports both this Website and the TowerBells Website.  Thus their identification follows the standard model.

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