The Campanile (Springfield, Massachusetts)

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The Campanile in Springfield, Massachusetts, is a 300 ft. tall, Italianate clock tower, built in 1911. Located between Springfield's Greek Revival City Hall and Symphony Hall, it is part of the Springfield Municipal Group, the city's neo-classical government center.

The Campanile contains a carillon of twelve bells that play sixteen notes of Handel's Messiah, and an illuminated four-faced clock. The face of each clock is fourteen feet in diameter. Originally, the clock and elevator were powered by water.

Architects Harvey Wiley Corbett and F. Livingston Pell designed the Municipal Group. It has become one of the signature images of Springfield. Dedicated by President William Howard Taft, who introduced the Municipal Group as "one of the most distinctive civic centers in the nation, and indeed, the world."

See also www.springfieldcityhall.com/COS/history.htm
See also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campanile