Emily Butler Ogden Wheeler Memorial Clock Tower in Sharon, Connecticut, photographed by Michael Herrick, April 15, 2011.
Does this tower look familiar?
While driving through Connecticut recently, former Roslyn Landmark Society trustee, Clifford Goldman, noticed a prominent clock tower standing at the entrance to the village of Sharon, located in Litchfield County. Observing the structure's striking similarities to Roslyn's Ellen E. Ward Memorial Clock Tower, Goldman investigated further and soon discovered that both clock towers were designed by the New York City architecture firm of Lamb & Rich during the last decades of the 19th century.
Firm partners Hugh Lamb and Charles Alonzo Rich also designed Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt's "Summer White House" in Oyster Bay, in 1884- the same year the Emily Butler Ogden Wheeler Memorial Clock Tower was erected in Sharon, Connecticut.
While the Ellen E. Ward Memorial Clock Tower in Roslyn was not designed and constructed until approximately a decade later, both the Sharon and Ward towers were built in memory of exceptional women by their children and still stand today as monuments celebrating local residents.
To read more about the Ellen E. Ward Memorial Clock Tower, click here.
Ellen E. Ward Memorial Clock Tower, Roslyn, NY, circa 2020.
Image of Emily Butler Ogden Wheeler Memorial Clock Tower, Sharon, CT, courtesy of Waymarking.com.
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