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一个非凡的礼物来完成纪念钟楼

亨利一家站在红色钟楼的复制品前
比尔和弗朗西斯·亨利

这个故事是一个正在进行的系列的一部分修复及完成纪念钟楼.点击链接,了解更多关于北卡罗来纳州的石头传奇的历史。

纪念Belltower是北卡罗来纳州立大学最著名和最受欢迎的标志。

纪念在一战中牺牲的34名校友这座钟楼于1921年奠基,并于1949年正式落成,它成为无数学生里程碑照片的背景,在ROTC的委任仪式上站岗,并成为诸如Packapalooza和返校节游行等庆祝活动的灯塔。在表彰退伍军人和庆祝北卡罗莱纳州重大事件和成就的节日里,该大学将这座塔点亮红色。

然而,尽管这座115英尺高的地标位于主校区的东北角和大学校徽的中心,但它只是一个名存实义的钟楼。

塔尖上没有真正的钟声响起,只有扬声器发出的钟声记录。

这种情况即将改变。

来自加斯顿尼亚的比尔·亨利和弗朗西斯·亨利夫妇的一份礼物将使该大学最终完成钟楼的建造,包括按照最初的设计安装55个完整的钟、钟鼓和内部楼梯。由于早期的活动,人们买了几只钟;亨利夫妇的礼物将购买剩下的钟。

他们的承诺还将为该塔提供急需的翻新、结构维修和稳定。该项目包括对周围广场的升级,该广场将被命名为亨利广场。这项工作预计需要大约三年的时间,从宣布礼物,通过初步设计,到完成。

北卡罗来纳州州长兰迪·伍德森说:“这真的是一份独特而非凡的礼物。”“钟楼是我们校园里最神圣的地方之一,但近年来由于设施需求太多,我们未能给予它所需和应得的关注。这份礼物代表了团队努力的顶峰,以确保钟楼在未来的几代人中保持强大,这是我们不断增长的慈善文化影响的一个很好的例子。

“我很自豪能成为北卡罗来纳州历史上这一时刻的一部分,并看到亨利广场的纪念钟楼完工。我们很感激等待终于结束了。”

比尔·亨利1981年毕业于纺织学院。他的兄弟乔治1984年毕业于普尔管理学院,1997年去世的三兄弟詹姆斯1985年毕业于人文社会科学学院。亨利一家还支持了该校的其他努力,包括比尔和乔治建立的一项捐赠基金,以提供基于需求的奖学金。

比尔和弗朗西斯的儿子威廉是工程学院的大一新生,他们热衷于完成钟楼作为北卡罗来纳州的骄傲点。

“钟楼是北卡罗来纳州立大学校园里最具标志性和统一性的场所之一。在过去几次访问罗利的过程中,我观察到这座纪念碑对许多个人和团体来说是多么重要。”“每次我来到罗利,看到这么多人聚集在钟楼周围,真是令人惊讶。我认为,为了正确地表彰在第一次世界大战中献出生命的校友,完成这项工作非常重要。”

“代表亨利家族,我们很荣幸为整个北卡罗来纳州立大学社区完成纪念钟楼的翻新工作。——比尔·亨利

这座塔由1400吨花岗岩在700吨混凝土基础上建造而成,建造过程将耗时一个世纪。

1907届毕业生万斯·赛克斯(Vance Sykes)被认为是1919年至1920年间推动钟楼建设的第一个人。在大萧条和第二次世界大战期间,建筑断断续续地进行着。

这座石雕在1937年作为联邦工程进步管理局的项目完工后,学生荣誉协会和20世纪30年代末的毕业班捐赠了这座钟和泛光灯。20世纪40年代的最后一项工程包括塔楼的大理石圣殿室(现在大四的学生们都在这里过夜),以及计划中的临时扬声器系统。这些年来,音响和灯光系统有过一些小的升级;最近安装的carillon是20世纪80年代安装的,位于Holladay大厅,是电子钟系统的一部分。

2009年,学生们发起了一项草根运动,要求完成钟楼。来自大约411名学生、校友和其他捐赠者的礼物资助了一套五个钟的威斯敏斯特编钟。目前有三个钟陈列在D.H.希尔图书馆的Erdahl-Cloyd西翼,其他的则被收藏起来。

2010届学生购买了最大的2000磅钟。捐款达到210美元的会员会把他们的名字刻在上面。这五座钟还包括海伦娜·h·加德纳钟,这是她的丈夫和他们的三个孩子为了纪念她而送的,还有W.F.莫里斯三世和他的家人为了纪念他的父亲和祖父而送的老莫里斯和小莫里斯钟。其他几座钟也筹集了资金。

Crews will use a crane to temporarily remove the roofing and roof structure and to lower the largest bells into the belfry. Roof removal also allows installation of the bell frame. Copper roof flashing and portions of roofing are being replaced, and the roof structure will be reinforced with additional steel. The adjacent portion of the upper structure of the belfry, damaged by a 2009 lightning strike, will not be repaired.

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At long last, a bell frame and 55-bell carillon will be installed in the belfry, the open area at the tower’s apex, replacing the old speaker system. Bells have been purchased both with the Henry gift and through the generosity of donors to an earlier campaign a decade ago. Many of the largest bells will arrive at the tower already attached to headstocks, or horizontal steel beams; all of the bells will be assembled into a large stainless steel frame with cables and cranks tying into the playing cabin below. Work on the belfry includes the erection of additional structural steel beams and a reworked slab providing the right configuration for the carillon design and added support for the bell system. There’s also cleaning, painting, waterproofing and curbing. Copper mesh screening will be installed behind the granite columns to keep out birds, bats and nesting insects, and the belfry will have white lighting.

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The tower’s existing, rusty clockworks will be removed and replaced by a digital system with mechanical connections. (Throughout the project, historic material is being salvaged for reuse or archival preservation as appropriate.) On the outside, the appearance of the four clocks will not change. The slab forming the base of the clock level, nearly 77 feet above the Shrine Room floor, is being removed to make space for the new playing cabin below.

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A wood-paneled and concrete-floored room is being built just below clock level. This carillon room, or clavier playing cabin, will feature a new wooden keyboard instrument — a red oak console complete with keys, batons and foot pedals. Two of the instrument’s four posts will be shaped like the Belltower itself. With the demolition of the existing clock-level slab to open the area below it, the upper part of the playing cabin will feature skylights into the belfry floor. These can be opened when a musician is playing, so he or she can clearly hear the bells. An auxiliary control panel in Holladay Hall will enable electronic operation of the carillon.  

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The tower’s “windows” have simply been openings with screens— one of several features leading to interior condensation and water damage. A new interior, fixed-sash window shutter system will keep out rain. The windows will be fixed rather than operable to decrease potential maintenance (including the possibility of one being left open inadvertently).

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A set of decorative winder stairs is being installed, similar to the original design. The lowest portion of the stairs in the Shrine Room will be styled in a more decorative fashion, featuring treads made of marble and serpentine, a lustrous green mineral; design details from architect Deacy’s drawings; and iron and bronze railings. As you ascend from the new oculus level that forms the Shrine Room ceiling and the shaft narrows, the steps winding upward to the playing cabin will be more utilitarian: galvanized steel in a bar-grating style. At the cabin level there will be additional rail details. (A ladder will remain the only way to access the belfry level. Older, rusted ladders are being removed.) New mechanical, plumbing and electrical systems also will be added inside, along with condensate piping to drain into the new subsurface system.

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This first portion of the project, completed in fall 2019, pulled out and removed dirt and impurities from the exterior stone, leaving a visibly brighter, more radiant tower surface. This carefully orchestrated multistep cleaning process used gels, liquids and poultices to remove organic and inorganic staining, and to mitigate salt crystallization within the masonry walls that had resulted in efflorescence blooms on the exterior granite. Crews also repointed failing mortar joints where necessary, and they removed a waterproof coating of sealer that had been applied to the lower section of the exterior several years ago, unfortunately trapping moisture and causing additional Shrine Room deterioration.

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Water damage in the 12-by-12-foot Shrine Room at the tower’s base had become serious, leaving the room’s marble and serpentine in very poor condition. The memorial tablet bearing the names of 34 NC State alumni who lost their lives in World War I was placed in offsite storage a few years ago because water was wearing away the names; a wooden facsimile bearing a photograph of the tablet took its place. The exterior sealer added a decade ago had caused even more deterioration in the marble walls, with chunks literally falling off. The entire room, including the plaque and benches, is being restored. The name of an additional alumnus more recently discovered to have died shortly after returning home from the war — due to catching the Spanish flu while serving overseas — will be added on a wall near the plaque. A new oculus level, inspired by ceiling designs of other World War I memorials, is being added. It replaces the ceiling with a higher domed and backlit marble one, incorporating natural lighting from above. New pendant and sconce lighting fixtures will reflect the historic period of the tower’s design. A new time capsule will be encased under the stairs.

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The heavy bronze door will be cleaned but not lacquered. Some letters will be polished more than others to ensure that they retain their prominence.

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The plinth — the platform raised about 3 1/2 feet above ground level, where one enters the door to the Shrine Room — was built in a way that allowed  water to pool below it, creating a problem with  moisture wicking upward through the masonry. The plinth has shifted slightly since it was installed a few years after initial construction, though the tower itself remains structurally sound. The platform’s cobblestone pavers, which have settled unevenly, are being removed (along with the concrete under them), and  a new subsurface drainage system will be installed with appropriate fill to replace wet plastic clays. The cobblestones will be moved to a new location at the site. The new plinth paving will be large slabs of pink Salisbury granite, the same type of stone used for the original pavers. Granite benches are being repaired and reinstalled.

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A wide “ascending path” — less steeply sloped than a ramp — is being added on the south side to improve accessibility. While the Belltower’s footprint won’t really change, the project team will reconfigure the side nearest the Pullen Road parking spaces and will shift a flagpole. The ascending path will replace the granite steps on that side but match the plinth; these former plinth steps will be reused at the south end of the new path. It also will be accessed via steps with handrails and a small ramp near the parking area.

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In recent years, crews replaced concrete at the lower plaza or concourse level with gravel. The original pavers had settled, cracked and deteriorated because of the water problems. The project team will reinstall concrete flatwork to match the historic scoring pattern, after upgrading the drainage system. There will be new decorative paving and bricking in some areas, such as around flagpoles and on the path to the Hillsborough Street stairs.

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Lighting is being upgraded and made more efficient. The four exterior torchieres — each pedestal holds a bowl with four fixtures — have been redesigned to be more appropriate to the tower’s period of origin. New bronze bowls, mounted on the refurbished metal posts of the old fixtures, will have LED lights that will allow the tower to be lit both red and white. There will be new interior task and emergency lighting, and the belfry will gain white lighting. Existing lighting at flagpoles will be retained.

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New signage will designate the area as Henry Square and older signs are being moved. Some sprinklers are being moved or shifted, and there will be better erosion control and storm drainage. New plantings and landscaping will be added, particularly along the new ascending path. An additional walking path will be installed to the east of the ascending path and an existing crosswalk will be shifted.

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Five new geothermal wells drilled around the tower will anchor a well-water heating and cooling system to protect the new carillon and associated parts, and to keep carillonneurs and Shrine Room visitors comfortable in a conditioned space. This new HVAC system also will eliminate issues with condensation on the interior faces of the tower walls. Condensate will drain into new piping leading to the subsurface drainage system as part of the new plumbing infrastructure.

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Existing electrical equipment boxes that have been located under large trees southwest of the tower will move south into the brick paver walkway between Watauga Club Drive and the Holladay Hall parking lot. Power is being upgraded, along with security and data systems, and surge and lightning protection.

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The room on the garden level of Holladay Hall that long hosted carillonneurs (playing an electronic instrument that simulated the sound of bells, connected to belfry speakers) will remain a carillon space. A small keyboard, bench and digital control panel there will allow remote operation of the bells. Most of the old “carillon” will be removed, with some portions of the equipment — such as one tubular bell cabinet — retained for display and others archived. There will be donor signage on the wall, and current plans call for the eventual installation of a small historic display and an interactive touchscreen with more information on the Belltower.

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与此同时,钟楼继续遭受严重的恶化,特别是内部的水损害。工人们重新密封接缝,并进行修补以保持安全,沙砾已经取代了塔周围的铺路石。大约一年半前,神社房间里的第一次世界大战纪念牌匾为了安全起见不得不移到别处,因为水开始模糊殉职校友的名字。

亨利夫妇的礼物是北卡罗莱纳州的一部分思考和行动的非凡战役该校的目标是筹集16亿美元,用于学生和教师的支持、设施和项目。负责大学发展的副校长布莱恩·西斯乔(Brian Sischo)表示,这代表着连接校园过去和未来的重要而持续的努力。

“这场运动让人们看到了我们改造、建设和留下遗产的能力。对于北卡罗来纳州立大学来说,这是一个充满惊人能量和势头的时代。”“百年校园继续发展。雷诺兹体育馆和格雷格艺术与设计博物馆已经重生,塔利学生会已经完全重新想象。现在,亨利广场的纪念钟楼终于要完工了,就在这所伟大大学的起点霍拉迪大厅旁边。

“当钟声第一次响起时,这将是激动人心的一天。非常感谢亨利夫妇和所有为这个项目做出贡献的人。”

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