Type Campanile Height 46 m Opened 2001 | Completed 2001 Construction started 2000 Phone +1 800-382-8540 | |
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Location Center of McKinley Avenue, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana Named for Phyllis and Hamer Shafer Other dimensions 48 bells in the carillon Address N McKinley Ave, Muncie, IN 47306, USA Architecture firms Rundell Ernstberger Associates, Edmund Hafer Associates Architectural styles Modern architecture, Postmodern Architecture Similar Beneficence, Bracken Library, Emens Auditorium - Ball State, David Owsley Museum, LaFollette Complex | ||
Shafer Tower is a 150-foot-tall (46 m) free-standing bell tower, or campanile with a carillon and chiming clock in the middle of the campus of Ball State University.
Dedicated in 2002, Shafer Tower has become an unofficial landmark of Ball State University. It stands in the median of McKinley Avenue on University Green, the northern quadrangle of campus.
A narrow staircase in the tower leads to the control room of the carillon, which has 48 custom-made bells. From here a musician can play the instrument on special occasions or for concerts. The bells are programmed by computer to play the Westminster Quarters to announce the time between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Due to a construction defect in the type of cement used to build the tower, most of Shafer Tower had to be built twice. The architect of record was Edmund Hafer Associates of Evansville, Indiana.