Non-Traditional Carillon and Other Bell Links - North America

Here are links to other places on the World Wide Web where you can find information about individual non-traditional carillons (and other tower bell instruments) in North America as people at those places have chosen to present them. These links are grouped by type of instrument or site, as follows:
1. Electrified carillons
2. Chimes
3. Rings
4. Other bell-related pages

Within each section, sites are listed alphabetically by city name.

Web pages about electrified carillons:

• Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA - a photo on the home page shows clearly the open bellframe atop Lupton Hall. The two+ octaves of bells are a mixture of Meneely/Troy (1922, 1929) and P&F (1972).
• Albritton Bell Tower, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX - 49 bells by Paccard, 1984.
• Fondren Science Building, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX - 25 bells by P&F, 1952.
• City Hall, Edmonton, AB - a night-time photo of the building. A smaller version of the same photo, together with a brief description of the tower and instrument, can be found on the On-Line Walking Tour
• Vaughn Chapel and campanile, Ferrum College, VA - You will need Java turned on to be able to see the photos. Another perspective on the chapel and campanile.
• The GMI Alumni Carillon, Kettering University (formerly General Motors Institute), Flint, MI - This text page tells about the 47-bell instrument, which can be seen on the old GMI Home Page.
• Westark College, Fort Smith, AR - The tower in the photo which is the centerpiece of Westark's home page contains 42 bells by Paccard. From here you can find numerous other pages with different photos of the tower. There are several specifically about the tower and carillon.
• Bavarian Inn, Frankenmuth, MI - The restaurant tower with its 35 bells and animated figures appears on several pages at this heavily commercial Web site in "Michigan's Little Bavaria".
• Memorial Carillon Tower, University of Nebraska at Kearney - 24 bells by Paccard.
• Cathedral of the Assumption, Louisville, KY - The Cathedral's history page has two old photos of the building and tower. A page on the exterior restoration in progress mentions the carillon and an 1852 bell.
• North Hennepin Community College, Minneapolis, MN - The unique bell tower is a modernistic steel sculpture honoring potatoes and sheep.
• Glockenspiel, New Ulm, MN - A light 3 octave automatic carillon by Eijsbouts accompanies the animated figures in this city tower.
• Pensacola Christian College, FL - a miniature of the Update magazine shows the tower (43 bells by Paccard, 1989), but there is no text about it.
• The Denny Chimes, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL - possibly 25 bells (electric action)
• City Hall, Westminster, CO - 24 bells.

Web sites or pages about chimes:

• Cornell Chimes, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY - 22 bells, with the longest continuous history of ringing of any North American campus instrument.
• The University Stetson University, De Land, FL - 11 bells by McShane (1915).
• Mahanay Memorial Bell Tower, Jefferson, IA - 14 bells (electric action) atop a modern tower.
• El Campanil, Mills College, Oakland, CA - This Spanish clock tower houses a 10-bell chime cast in 1902.
• The Regina Bell Ringers, Regina, Sasketchewan - The Website of this versatile group has information and photos of the 12-bell chime at Knox-Metropolitan United Church as well as a set of 8 tower tubes in Wascana Place.
• Lawson Tower, Scituate, MA
• Altgeld Chime Tower, University of Illinois, Urbana - 15 bells by McShane, 1920.

Web pages about rings:

• Church of the Advent, Boston, MA
• Christ Church (Old North Church), Boston, MA
• Christ Church, Elbow Park, Calgary, AB - ringers' Webpage
• Mitchell Tower, University of Chicago, IL - home of a 10-bell ring (photo only).
• St.Andrew's Episcopal Cathedral, Honolulu, HI
• Kent School, Kent, CT - a student's personal notes and photos about change ringing on 10 Whitechapel bells.
• Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, AR - no information about the bells and only one mention of the ringers.
• St.James Episcopal Church, Marietta, GA
• Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Miami, FL
• Holy Rosary Cathedral, Vancouver, BC
• Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, BC - also Cathedral Ringers' Website and an aerial photograph of the Cathedral.
• Washington National Cathedral, Washington, DC - This Website is best viewed with a browser having "frames" capability but has only a little information about the 53-bell carillon (Taylor, 1963) in the lower belfry of the Gloria in Excelsis central tower or the 10-bell ring (Whitechapel, 1963) in the upper belfry.
• Old Post Office Tower, Washington, DC - the Congress Bells, 10 by Whitechapel (1976).

Other bell-related Websites or pages:

• The North American Guild of Change Ringers - NAGCR Home Page
• The American Guild of English Handbell Ringers - The AGEHR Home Page has info about AGEHR itself plus links to handbell and music vendors, bell choirs, handbell maintenance, handbell mailing list, and more.
• First Parish in Bedford, MA - This church's Website includes a sketch of the wheel for the first bell (from England in 1817) plus photos of restoration of the tower clock and the second bell (Meneely/Troy, 1926).
• Hayes Hall, State University of New York at Buffalo - This page about the 4-bell clock chime at SUNYB tells everything except who made the bells. (It was probably one of the Meneely foundries).
• The Liberty Bell of the West, at Kaskaskia, IL - Cast in France in 1741, this is the oldest bell west of the Appalachian Mountains that was made for a specific church congregation. A photo and map are part of a long page on the Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site.
• The clock tower at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA - holds "clock and chimes" that were formerly in the central spire of Memorial Church before it was damaged by the great earthquake of 1906.
• The College Bell, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC - cast by Meneely/West Troy in 1854, and mentioned in a text on college traditions.
• Purdue Bell Tower, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN - 4 bells in the clock tower
• The Westfield Town Clock, Westfield, NJ, strikes the hour on an 1886 Meneely/Troy bell. The Westfield Town Bell was cast in steel by Vickers Sons & Co., Sheffield, England, in 1869.
• The Wake-Forest Visitor Center home page includes a photo of an old clock bell (probably by one of the Meneelys) in an open cupola, with Wait Chapel (home of a carillon) in the distance.

Elsewhere on the Web, others maintain lists of links, too.

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