Dubuque Town Clock
Jan. 2nd, 2015 03:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogThe Dubuque Town Clock is one of the stranger monumental scale structures I've seen in a town.
The cupola and clock (1873) are much older than the pre-cast column (1971) that supports it, replacing the building that the cupola once adorned.
When I post more than one or two photo posts per day, as I've been inclined to do lately, I'll just lj-cut all the photos so you're not forced to deal with lots of non-text content all at once. If they sound interesting though, I hope you'll click through and maybe even tell me what you think!)
This is the second town clock. The first one is an example of the way constructions techniques were something of a matter of trial and error once upon a time. That first clock was too heavy for the building it was built on and the whole thing collapsed, destroying a store and killing a few people.
The cupola and clock (1873) are much older than the pre-cast column (1971) that supports it, replacing the building that the cupola once adorned.
When I post more than one or two photo posts per day, as I've been inclined to do lately, I'll just lj-cut all the photos so you're not forced to deal with lots of non-text content all at once. If they sound interesting though, I hope you'll click through and maybe even tell me what you think!)
This is the second town clock. The first one is an example of the way constructions techniques were something of a matter of trial and error once upon a time. That first clock was too heavy for the building it was built on and the whole thing collapsed, destroying a store and killing a few people.
