It includes seven principal floors and an eighth-floor observation deck 200 feet (61 m) above the base. (Preliminary drawing, 1903, John Galen Howard.)Īt 307 feet (94 m) tall, it is the second-tallest free-standing bell-and- clock-tower in the world.
Overview īuilding apartments into the new tower was considered. Sather Tower also houses many of the Department of Integrative Biology's fossils (mainly from the La Brea Tar Pits) because its cool, dry interior is suited for their preservation. Its current 61-bell carillon, built around a nucleus of 12 bells also given by Jane Sather, can be heard for many miles and supports an extensive program of education in campanology. Sather in memory of her husband, banker Peder Sather, it is the third-tallest bell-and-clock-tower in the world. It is a recognizable symbol of the university. It is more commonly known as The Campanile ( / ˌ k æ m p ə ˈ n iː l i, - l eɪ/ KAMP-ə- NEE-lee, -lay, also US: / ˌ k ɑː m-/ KAHMP-) for its resemblance to the Campanile di San Marco in Venice. Sather Tower is a bell tower with clocks on its four faces on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
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