City Hall Clock Tower Update: It’s Our Time!

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Partners In Preservation:

Heart of Biddeford participated in the $150,000 Partners in Preservation campaign with a focus on sites that celebrate equity and social change. Each of the sites featured in the campaign played a role in the development of a more diverse nation. Heart of Biddeford and the City Hall Clock Tower were included in the list of 2018 grant winners!

This project is supported by a grant from the American Express Partners in Preservation program, a partnership of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the American Express Foundation.

Updates:

Visit Balzer Family’s Clock Works for updates on their site as they work to repair the Clock!

Articles on the Clock Tower:

Tick tock: Biddeford City Hall clock tells time once more (B/S/O Courier, October 17, 2019)
City Hall’s clock tower is telling the correct time once more, which the city of Biddeford celebrated Oct. 11, allowing the public to see the restored piece for themselves. The restoration process was completed by Balzer Family Clock Works, a company based in Freeport, and was funded by a $150,000 grant Biddeford won from American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation through the “Partner in Preservation: Celebrating Diversity on Main Street” campaign in October of 2018….. Read More

City Hall clock will be ticking again in Biddeford (Journal Tribune, 4/3/19)

Freeport company starts restoration of historic Biddeford City Hall clock (The Times Record, 4/3/19)

Restoration of historic Biddeford City Hall clock begins (Press Herald, 4/2/19)

Biddeford will fix and restore historic City Hall clock (Press Herald, 1/16/19)

Biddeford, boosted by public passion, wins grant to restore City Hall clock tower (Press Herald, 10/29/18)

Historic Biddeford clock tower competes for national preservation grant (Press Herald, 9/25/18)

Heart of Biddeford Updates 

10/29: It’s Official, We Did It!

10/26: The Clock Tower Inspired Us

City Hall Updates

4/2: Restoration Work on City Hall Clock Begins

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The following are photos showing the initial removal of the clock workings being taken apart for removal on March 28, 2019 by the Balzar Family Clockworks. The pieces will be brought to their workshop for repair.

The clock was removed piece by piece – besides a few big pieces, the bucket in the picture is what remained of the clock after they were done. A serial number of sorts was found on the clock that said “4016”. There might be a possibility that this might have been the 4016^th clock that E. Howard & Co. had built.[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”5854″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”5855″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”5856″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”5853″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”5857″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”5858″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”5859″ img_size=”medium”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]