Southwest Alaska Ecosystems issued the following announcement on March 10.
Done. As originally designed and built, Philadelphia’s Independence Hall had no tower or steeple. These were added around 1750. The wooden steeple had rotted by 1773 and was removed in 1781. In 1828, the city hired architect William Strickland to restore the original steeple. Strickland deviated from the original design, incorporating a clock and additional ornamentation. From 2010 to 2012, the tower underwent a 14 month rehabilitation project funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The work performed on the Strickland tower stopped, and corrected, the decay of the tower's exterior, as well as reinforced clock faces and braced all building elevations. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/inde/learn/historyculture/preservation-indehalltowerrehabilitation.htm
Image: Tick-tock on the clock... This unique view shows the interior clock face inside Independence Hall.
Original source can be found here.
Source: Southwest Alaska Ecosystems
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