McFarland Memorial Bell Tower - University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
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adgorn
N 40° 06.176 W 088° 13.632
16T E 395402 N 4439904
A 185-foot tall carillon bell tower on the South Quad of the Urbana-Champaign campus. Its construction is now finished and is a part of the Campus Master Plan. The tower does not replace Altgeld Hall as the primary bell tower, as both ring in unison.
Waymark Code: WM98DB
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 07/13/2010
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From U of I Wiki
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"The tower started as a renovation project for Altgeld Hall that had been in planning since at least 1998, but that project was abandoned after renovation for Altgeld Hall wasn't deemed possible.
Funding for the project came from H. Richard McFarland, a 1952 alumnus of the College of Agriculture. McFarland and his late wife, Sarah "Sally" McFarland, wanted to donate funding to the construction of a Presbyterian chapel on campus. After the plans never materialized and McFarland's wife died of ovarian cancer in 2003, he donated $1.5 million to the tower's construction. The tower was named after Sally McFarland.
The tower is home to 49 bells that were originally planned to replace the old ones at Altgeld Hall but were instead used for the new tower. The bells were cast in the Netherlands. They are playable by a piano-style keyboard, but have come pre-programmed to play more than 500 songs."
I found this while seeking the nearby Mumford House, also waymarked. From some online noodling around, not everyone seems to like the the tower and some feel it looks out of place.