Downtown developer worked to find the original, century-old clock and reclaim it for a corner of the historic building.
Several companies worked in tandem to restore the Rand Building's century-old clock, which was being reassembled and installed Sunday at Houston Street and Main Avenue.That’s how the owners describe the process of finding, recovering and restoring a century-old clock once mounted to the corner of a downtown office building.
It is unknown when or why the Rand’s clock was removed or where it went. But the building’s owners wanted it back. At one time, Judson offered the owner $55,000 for the clock but walked away from the deal when the price inexplicably went up by $10,000. “We had them redo the clock controller so that it would actually tell time again,” Fontenot said. “There are only a couple of places in the country that can do a controller for that type of clock.”
USSign team members Mark Bauer , Ty Weaver and Lydell Toye prepare the century-old clock for installation Sunday on the side of the Rand Building.In that time, the company managed to install clocks in cities across the country, from Port Townsend, Washington, and Rockland, Maine, to Fort Myers, Florida, to Corpus Christi and San Diego, according to commercial clock supplier Lumichron.
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