HASTINGS - HC : USA - NE

*Location:

   (in storage)
   Hastings College
   Hastings, Nebraska, USA
   LL: N 40.596, W 98.370

   International Bell Museum
   Winston H. Jones, Curator
   Evergreen, Colorado, USA

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*Player:

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*Contact:

   Michael Karloff, Vice President
     for Planned and Major Gifts
   Hastings College Foundation
   701 North Turner Avenue
   Hastings, NE  68901-7621
   W: (402)461-7473   F: (402)462-6240
   E: mkarloff@hastings.edu

*Remarks:

   Originally an outdoor collection of 80
   bronze and steel bells, 12" to 48" in
   diameter, mostly American-made; also
   over 5000 bells within the museum.
   Mr.Jones died in 2006, leaving his
   collections to Hastings College; mostly
   in storage awaiting new display
   arrangements.  A few bells were sold,
   and one large bell was stolen; one case
   is on display at Hastings College
   Foundation office in Barrett Center,
   and others elsewhere on campus.

*Technical data:

   Carillon-sized collection of bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is unknown
   Transposition is not applicable
   Year of latest technical information source is 2010

*Links:

The college Website does not yet mention this collection, probably because it's not yet fully and finally on display.

Being a collection, this site is not indexed by foundry, size or weight.
However, the collection includes bronze tower bells from the following makers:
-   Buckeye Bell Foundry, 1853-1892 (7) - Cincinnati, OH
-   Denver Brass Works, c.1884 - Denver, CO
-   A.Fulton's Sons, 1879 - Pittsburgh, PA
-   Jones & Co., 1881 - Troy, NY
-   McShane, 1885 - Baltimore, MD
-   Meneely, 1907-1920 (3) - Troy, NY
-   Meneely, 1913 - West Troy, NY
-   Henry Stuckstede, 1896 - St.Louis, MO
-   Stuckstede & Bro., 1902-37 (3) - St.Louis, MO
and steel tower bells from the following makers:
-   American Bell Foundry Co. (1) - Northville, MI
-   C.S.Bell & Co. (1+), The C.S.Bell Co. (3+) - Hillsboro, OH
-   Cincinnati Bell Foundry Co. (2+); Blymyer, Norton & Co. (2+) - Cincinnati, OH
-   Fredericktown Bell Foundry Co. (1) - Fredericktown, OH
-   Gould's M'f'g Co. (1+) - Seneca Falls, NY
-   Ross Meehan Foundry Co., 1921 (1) - Chattanooga, TN

Index to all collections of tower.

Index to all tower bell instruments in NE.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 17-Nov-10
   based on textual data last updated on 2010/11/15
   and on technical data last updated on 2010/11/15

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