*Location:

   Stewart Bell Tower
   Garden Center Park
   Stadium Park Drive NW
   Canton, Ohio, USA
   LL: N 40.81550, W 81.39371 (tower) z20
   LL: N 40.81532, W 81.39389 (dance) z20

Site locator map

*Contact:

   The Canton Garden Center
   1615 Stadium Park Drive NW
   Canton, OH  44718-3517
   T: 330-455-6172
   E: president /@/ gardencenter DOTcom

*Schedule:

   Automatic play hourly 0800-2200; also
   Cambridge (Westminster) quarters;
   nine notes playable by foot from Dance
   Chimes in nearby Children's Garden.

*Remarks:

   Built in honor of the 50th wedding
   anniversary of Mr. & Mrs. John Stewart.

*Technical data:

   Electric-automatic chime of 14 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the itty-bitty octave
   Transposition is not applicable
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   The arrangement of tones and semitones is unknown.
   The whole instrument was installed in 1972
     with bells made by Petit & Fritsen
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  0 meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:    4 meters above ground
     Height of highest level of bells:   8 meters above ground
     Belfry openness:  95%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2010

A page at the Garden Center Website has two photos of the bell tower.

A waymarking page has 4 photos

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American chimes by weight (pitch).
Ranking among all North American chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in OH.

   This page was built from the database on 23-Jul-23
   based on textual data last updated on 2023/06/22
   and on technical data last updated on 2023/06/22