June 18, 2019 | Eli Freund - School of Engineering

Mechanical Engineering Keney Clock Tower Senior Design Project, Fox 61

Through a partnership with the City of Hartford and non-profit group Friends of Keney Park and Keney Park Sustainability Project, three UConn Engineering students revived an historic clock tower that had been dormant for years. Story by Jim Altman of Fox 61.

Frozen branches nestle in the shelter of the School of Business. Photo by Aril Dowski

 

The 130-foot-tall Keney Memorial Clock Tower sat silent and immobile for a number of years, the hands on its four clock faces no longer turning and its bells no longer sounding the hours from the small park at the intersection of Albany Avenue and Main Street, just north of downtown Hartford.

The historic tower’s original chimes are now ringing again, though, through a partnership with the City of Hartford, the nonprofit Friends of Keney Park and Keney Park Sustainability Project, the UConn Office of Service Learning Initiatives, and the UConn School of Engineering’s Mechanical Engineering Senior Design program.