Sounds Of Victory The Bell Tower Furman University Greenville South Carolina Art
by Reid Callaway
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Sounds Of Victory The Bell Tower Furman University Greenville South Carolina Art
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Reid Callaway
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Sounds Of Victory.....by Reid Callaway
The Bell Tower Furman University
Greenville South Carolina Art
The historic Bell Tower on Lake Furman is the symbol of Furman University and its beauty is a feasts for the eyes.
Furman University is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Greenville, South Carolina. Furman is the oldest private institution of higher learning in South Carolina.
Founded in 1826, Furman enrolls approximately 2,700 undergraduate students and 200 graduate students, representing 46 states and 53 foreign countries, on its 750-acre campus.
The school was named for Richard Furman of Charleston, a clergyman considered one of the most important Protestant leaders in the antebellum United States.
Furman University's campus is located at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the upstate region of South Carolina. A 40-acre (16.2 ha) lake is a highlight of the 750-acre (304 ha) wooded campus.
Paris Mountain State Park overlooks the lake and campus. Most buildings are of Georgian-style architecture. Many academic buildings and student residences stand around the lake, including the Bell Tower, which figures highly in school insignias and is a replica of the tower that once existed on the men's campus in downtown Greenville. Today, the campus is anchored by its newly expanded 128,000-square foot (12,000 m²) James B. Duke Library. Informally known as "The Country Club of the South," Furman was named one of the 362 most beautiful places in America by the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Bell Tower History….
Furman’s original Bell Tower, completed on the university’s campus overlooking the Reedy River in 1854, was built of bricks and mortar made from the red clay of the riverbank.
For more than a century, its bells warned of fires, tolled for the deaths of alumni and teachers, and announced victories — both those during the Civil War and later for football games at Sirrine Stadium.
The Bell Tower stood for the university.
So when college officials decided to move to a new campus on Poinsett Highway, the fate of the 88-foot tall building was a major concern. Many wanted to move it, brick by brick, to the new campus. Others thought it should be given to Greenville Tech. Developers wanted it for Bell Tower Mall.
But when Furman engineer Carl Clawson examined every inch of the tower, bricks disintegrated on touch. The Alester Furman family came to the rescue, donating enough money to have the building recreated at the center of the peninsula on Furman Lake. The building was a replica measured to the last inch by Clawson. The following year a carillon was installed. The Bell Tower once again became the symbol of the university.
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