Baird Carillon. Hoisting the Bourdon bell

Albert Kahn, architect. Built 1936.

Burton Memorial Carillon Tower

This stately tower stands tall on the main campus of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Experience Column - Carillon

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Experience Column - Carillon

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Experience Column - Carillon

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Carillon music and singing towers of the Old world and the New,

Mode of access: Internet.

Burton Memorial Tower

Albert Kahn, architect. Built 1936. On verso: The 10-story Burton Memorial Tower has been a landmark on the University of Michigan Ann Arbor campus since the tower's 1936 dedication ... The largest bell in the carillon, "Big Baird," weighs 12 tons and sounds E-flat below middle C at the stroke of its 350-pound clapper. The smallest bell weighs four pounds and sounds A-sharp, four and one-half octaves higher. University of Michigan News and Information Services, 412 Maynard, Ann Arbor, MI. 48109-1399. Negative #5546. Frame 17

Burton Tower from Rackham lobby

Albert Kahn, architect. Built 1936

Burton Tower, exterior

Albert Kahn, architect. Built 1936.

Burton Tower, 1952. Bells inside tower

Albert Kahn, architect. Built 1936.

English belfries and Belgian carillons.

Mode of access: Internet.

The enchanted woods, and other essays on the genius of places,

Dedication.--Introduction: The enchanted woods.--Pisa and the Campo Santo.--Switzerland again.--Tuscan churches in summer.--Arles.--Nymphs and a river god.--Brive-la-Gaillarde.--Of Paris and the exhibition.--Trent.--The motor-car and the genius of places.--The ilex woods and the anchorites.--German fir trees.--Compiègne and Fontainebleau.--The forest of the Antonines.--Mont St. Michel.--A walk in the Maremma.--Les Charmettes.--In the Euganean hills.--The hospitality of the Black Madonna.--The holy year at Ravenna.--The Generalife.--Couci-le-Château.--The tapestry at Angers.--Germany once more.--The carillon.--The cardinal's villa.--In Gascony.--Era già l'ora.--All souls' day at Venice.--Et in Arcadia.

Burton Memorial Tower

Albert Kahn, architect. Built 1936

Burton Memorial Tower

Albert Kahn, architect. Built 1936