RUGBY : USA - ND 

   Henry A. Niewohner Memorial Bell Tower

*Location:

   Niewohner Funeral Home
   2nd Avenue SW, N of 3rd Street SW
   Rugby, South Dakota, USA
   LL: N 48.36804, W 99.99749
Site locator map

*Contact:

   Niewohner Funeral Home
   213 2nd Avenue SW
   Rugby, ND  58368-1705
   T: 701-776-6222
   E: dmniewoehner /@/ gondtc DOTcom

*Schedule:

   On request by visitors

*Remarks:

   Originally built for 12 bells;
   #17 added about 2011; another nearby.
   Booklet with history of the first 12
   bells is available from the owner
   for $5 plus postage.
*Bells (first 12): 
   note?, 40", 1300#, 1905?, C.S.Bell Co.
   note?, 40", 1300#, 1902?, anon.steel
   note?, 36", 950#, 1919, anon.steel
   note?, 34", 765#, 1911?, anon.steel
   note?, 34", 765#, 1904?, anon.steel
   note?, 30", 570#, 1913?, Amer.B&F
   note?, 26", 350#, 1900?, anon.steel
   note?, 24", 250#, 1900?, anon.steel
   note?, 20", wt?, 1912, C.S.Bell Co.
   note?, 20", wt?, 1929?, Amer.B&F
   note?, 17", wt?, 1920s, anon.brass RR
   note?, 17", 50#, 1930s, C.S.Bell Co.

*Technical data: 

   Chime-sized collection of 17 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   Transposition is not applicable
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1999
     with bells made by the makers indicated in Bells above            
   Auxiliary mechanisms: W     
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  0 meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:    1 meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:   9 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  98%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2024
Editor's note:  The program that produces Webpages from the database was initially designed to handle musical instruments, and has been modified only slightly to display collections.  I have left the resulting strange "Technical data" for this collection here, unaltered, for your amusement.  (But a new task has been added to my worklist.)

*Links:

News article (12 Oct 2024) about the 25th anniversary of the dedication

Local tourism article, with three photos of bells

Website of the Niewohner Funeral Home

Photo of 16 bells (2010)

A German visitor's view of the 16-bell version

Visitors' reviews and photos

This being a collection, it is not indexed by maker, pitch, size or year.

Index to all tower bell collections in North America.

*Status: 
   This page was built from the database on 10-Mar-26
   based on textual data last updated on 2024/12/22
   and on technical data last updated on 2026/03/02
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