Sundials of North America

This is a complete listing of sundials in the North American Sundial Society Registry. The ordering can be changed using the box above. Or you can search for a dial by number, city, state/province, or type. You can also find sundials in a particular state/province by clicking on the right-column list of state/province names.

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	Washington	District of Columbia	USA	Horizontal Dial	316
	A horizontal dial 26 inches in diameter with a 9 inch gnomon. Has hour and half hour lines from 5 am to 7pm with 10 minute marks. Made of chocolate sandstone. South of the gnomon is an engraving of two children walking under a tree. Designed by John Carmichael
	Seattle	Washington	USA	Equatorial Dial	315
	An interesting equatorial dial 30 inches in diameter, made of bronze and terrazzo, sitting upon a tapered concrete pedestal cylinder that almost, but not quite, looks like a large flower pot. The dial plate is plainly decorated with a gnomon pole about 1.5 inches in diameter. Sitting at the north end of the pole is a very nice globe of the earth...
	Park City	Kentucky	USA	Horizontal Dial	314
	A beautiful horizontal dial 25 inches in diameter with a 9 inch gnomon. Has hour and half hour lines from 5 am to 7pm with 10 minute marks. South of the gnomon is an intricately engraved Great Seal of The United States of America. The dial is of Coconino sandstone and sits on a brick surround.
	Flagstaff	Arizona	USA	Horizontal Dial	313
	This cast iron horizontal dial is set in a 6 foot diameter limestone base 2 feet off the ground. The interior region of the dial face is a white tile mosaic. The gnomon has pictures of buffalo and a horned lizard done in relief. The edge of the dial is a cast iron ring, upon which are four cardinal points and hour markers from 5am to 7pm, like...
	Worcester	Massachusetts	USA	Equatorial Dial	312
	A Victor E. Edwards bronze equatorial sundial. It has an unusual crescent shaped arm with notch at the upper end. The arm is rotated until sunlight through the notch strikes an analemma on the lower inner curve of the crescent. Time is then read on a circular dial from an "hour hand" pointer extending from the base of the crescent.
	Brooklyn	Michigan	USA	Horizontal Dial	311
	A well-rusted horizontal dial of iron or steel about 10 inches diameter on a stone and masonry pedestal. Dial face shows Arabic hour numerals but hour line angles may be wrong. Mounted atop a stone and masonry pedestal.
	Oakland	California	USA	Sculpture or Artwork	307
	Bronze sundial sculpture by Robert Paine. The sundial was donated to University High School in 1927 by Sara Bard Field in honor of her son Albert, who was killed in 1917 in an automobile accident. Albert was the high school senior class president in 1917. His mother Sara was a leading suffragist on the West Coast. The High School has been renov...
	Seattle	Washington	USA	Sculpture or Artwork	306
	3x9x4 feet cast bronze sculpture of two gibbous shaped circles, each with supports. The sculpture called "Gnomon" could have been better called "abbreviated millipede"
	Indianapolis	Indiana	USA	Sculpture or Artwork	305
	Bronze Sundial, Boy with Spider Gnomon wire is broken but present as of 2/2014.
	Saratoga Springs	New York	USA	Horizontal Dial	304
	A horizontal dial 43 feet in diameter, built on a raised circle flower bed raised about 3 feet above the ground. Outside the raised circle the hours are shown by roman numbers are embedded in the walkway. The metal gnomon is approximately 20 feet above ground and is centered in the raised flower bed.
	Murrells Inlet	South Carolina	USA	Armillary Sphere	303
	This bronze armillary titled "Cycle of Life"is one of several by Paul Manship in the 20's. The equatorial band has Roman hour numbers on the inside and ornate signs of the zodiac on the outside. Also on the dial are the four elements of earth, fire, water, and air. In the center are three figures of a man, woman, and child symbolizing the cycle o...
	Mesa	Arizona	USA	Equatorial Dial	302
	Very handsome equatorial dial of bronze and dark marble, approximately 50 in (127cm). diameter. 6am to 6pm in Roman lettering. Gnomon in the form of an arrow. Sits on a triangular base atop a square marble top 21in (53cm) on a pedestal 39 in. (1m) high.
	Rolla	Missouri	USA	Sun Alignment	301
	Stonehenge-like half-scale model. 5 trilithons. A south-facing trilithon carries a pierced brass plate which projects a spot of sunlight on a folded analemma pattern. Stone.
	Concord	New Hampshire	USA	Horizontal Dial	300
	A 16 inch diameter cast bronze horizontal dial with 7 inch high cast and machined bronze gnomon. Dial face shows hour, half-hour and quarter-hour lines and Roman hour numerals 5 AM to 7 PM. The hour lines are corrected for longitude but no EOT correction is shown. Raised text on dial face inscribes, "For God and Country to Honor Our Fathers The ...
	Evanston	Illinois	USA	Horizontal Dial	298
	This was once a horizontal sundial of unknown construction commissioned by the Works Progress Administration. The dial has been removed and only a 24x24 inch pedestal remains, now adorned by a flower pot.
	Washington	District of Columbia	USA	Equatorial Dial	297
	Bronze 36 in. sundial titled "Garden of Eden". Smithsonian notes: "In Garden of Eden Sundial, the long stick would indicate the time by casting a shadow on the numbers that line the inside of the sphere. Marie Louise Speed commissioned this depiction of the Garden of Eden to decorate private grounds surrounding her estate outside Louisville, Kentu...
	Orlando	Florida	USA	Obelisk or Vertical Gnomon	294
	Bronze, granite An obelisk which, at the noon hour, will cast a shadow on a noon mark plaque positioned on the ground. Since 1988 downtown Orlando has grown and the park is surrounded by high-rise buildings. Tree cover is extensive in the park, making it a great place to eat lunch. The obelisk no longer exists.
	Redlands	California	USA	Equatorial Dial	293
	Equatorial dial designed by Russ Busher. A semicircle of metal, pierced with numerals. Sun shines through numerals onto metal plate with vertical line mounted below. Semicircle in equatorial plane, plate in polar plane. Such a dial is frequently advertized in "Wind and Weather" catalog. Placed atop a wooden post.
	Kohler Village	Wisconsin	USA	Vertical Dial	290
	A direct east vertical dial approximately 5 feet square, ornately painted onto the side of the Waelderhaus at Kohler Village. The Waelderhaus is a tribute to the tradition of Bregenzerwald, a province of Vorarlberg, Austria, and represents the architecture of this particular Alpine Area. The dial is painted in gold and white with flourishes. A t...
	Urbana	Illinois	USA	Horizontal Dial	289
	Horizontal dial 14 inches diameter, with 5 inch tall gnomon. Sits on stone pedestal 40 x 40 x 42 inches. LAT. 40° 6' 40" marked on the dial plate is not the local latitude 40° 05' 52". Roman hour numerals from 4 am to 8 pm, one mark for every 15 minutes. EOT with meridian correction included is shown by using 4 concentric circles. Gift of Class...
	Jackson	Mississippi	USA	Armillary Sphere	288
	A 30 inch gilded bronze armillary sphere, titled "Cycle of Life". The armillary sphere is composed of rings representing the great circles of the heavens. The sundial symbolizes the cycle of life encompassed by the cycle of eternity. Figures of a man, woman and child represent the Cycle of Life. On the rings and base are depicted the elements, ...
	Grand Rapids	Michigan	USA	Horizontal Dial	287
	A cast iron statue of a small boy painted in gold and kneeling. With arms upright, he holds a plate on top of his head that held the original sundial face, surrounded by an inscription and ornamentation. The statue is bolted to a concrete pedestal. With the original sundial gnomon removed, a new oversized horizontal dial has been carelessly bolte...
	Denver	Colorado	USA	Horizontal Dial	286
	A large horizontal 6 1/2 ft. x 4 ft. dial in bronze A child figure stands, casting a shadow on the sundial. Child's hands may have held a gnomon rod, now missing. There is a traditional gnomon fixed to the dial plate. Dial and figure are placed atop a granite pedestal. Figure and sundial: approx. 36 x 20 x 20 in. Both the figure and the sundi...
	Washington	District of Columbia	United States	Armillary Sphere	284
	The original Noyes armillary sphere was donated by Bertha Noyes in honor of her sister, Edith. Made of copper and bronze, the 6-foot armillary had an equatorial band with symbols of the zodiac, a meridian circle and arctic & antarctic circles. A winged cherub — a putto — stood in the center. The dial sat upon a octagonal polished green granite...
	Murrells Inlet	South Carolina	USA	Horizontal Dial	283
	This graceful 10 foot bronze sundial is a model of Paul Manship's dial "Time and Fates of Man" made for the 1939 New York World's Fair. The 1939 dial was made of plaster and stood 80 feet tall, claiming to be the biggest sundial in the world. Known as Parcae in Roman mythology, and the three fates in Greek mythology, sit under a tree that holds...
	Grand Forks	North Dakota	USA	Armillary Sphere	282
	A large brass and cast iron armillary dial with full equatorial and equinoctial colure rings, two tropic rings and Arctic and Antarctic circle rings. The sphere is tilted so the gnomon rod points to celestial north pole. On the gnomon is a nodus for casting the noon day shadow on a plate with an engraved analemma. The whole armillary is mounted si...
	Wichita	Kansas	USA	Horizontal Dial	281
	A bronze dial about 2 feet in diameter that has a simple chapter ring with Roman numerals. The gnomon is an artistic extension of a bird. The sundial sits atop a 30-inch pedestal of open ironwork reminiscent of a clock tower. Cogs put together inside the open structure at the bottom reinforce this impression. All sits on a square concrete dais....
	Boston	Massachusetts	USA	Horizontal Dial	280
	A small bronze horizontal dial with bronze figures of a bird with baby birds in nest and pulled worm as gnomon. The whole dial on originally set on a large granite boulder. The dial may have been moved to the roof-top garden, but a photo of the garden shows no large boulder. A possible photo (seen in a Getty commercial image) shows the dial on th...
	New Haven	Connecticut	USA	Horizontal Dial	279
	Large horizontal dial 17 ft. diameter with concrete gnomon 20 ft. high. Hour marks include longitude correction. Dial has a circular layout with a large sundial arm that sprays water on one side, a curved bench for sitting on the opposite side, a wading pool in between and a curved wall with three large oval holes cut out on one side. The sun shin...
	Honolulu	Hawaii	USA	Horizontal Dial	278
	The dial is a raised horizontal circle 18 inches in diameter. The nearly inch-wide brass gnomon supports a raised relief globe, with the Hawaiian Islands uppermost to accurately show which part of the world is in sunlight. The dial has hour lines and a ring of 5-minute marks. Hours are numbered from 6 until 18. Cardinal points and magnetic nort...
	Indianapolis	Indiana	USA	Sculpture or Artwork	276
	A stainless steel and concrete vertical structure 33 feet tall called the "Totem". It has triangular and trapezoidal cut-outs, placed in the center of a concrete circle, with a sundial face but is not a functional sundial.
	Houston	Texas	USA	Sculpture or Artwork	275
	An 85 inch high bronze sundial-like sculpture with elevated horizontal semicircular ring and steeply inclined bar up from base. Pegs and marks on ring suggest hour marks but design is wrong for location. Work is dedicated to exploration of space and has been relocated to a very shady area.
	New Orleans	Louisiana	USA	Equatorial Dial	273
	Approximately 14-inch bronze sun dial consisting of an standard equatorial hour ring. However the gnomon is a thin semi-circular disk. The top straight edge is the style casting its shadow onto the equatorial ring. All of this sites on top a low bronze metal dome base. The whole structure may be bent as the top edge of the semi-circular disk...
	Atlanta	Georgia	USA	Equatorial Dial	272
	This equatorial dial 1 meter in diameter. Made of iron, it has both an equatorial and meridian arc. There is an east-west thin vertical hoop that holds the arcs together. The sundial gnomon is an arrow held by the meridian arc and pointing to the north celestial pole. The dial rests on a triangular base that has the German eagle carved on all thr...
	Chicago	Illinois	USA	Equatorial Dial	271
	ca 8' dia. Stone ca 7' high Two curved C shaped forms placed at perpendicular angles.
	Cleveland	Ohio	USA	Horizontal Dial	270
	Horizontal dial 2 ft (0.6m) in diameter with a sloping circumference to increase the size of the to nearly 3 ft (1m). The sloping circumference is a flaring flange decorated with the 12 signs of the zodiac. Dial rests on an octagonal stone pillar.and base. According to CWRU, "The Mather College campus actually got its first sundial in 1906 (thou...
	Warren	Michigan	USA	Horizontal Dial	269
	Horizontal dial 16 ft in diameter with 6 ft gnomon. The Sundial is pyramid shaped, painted in four different shades of yellow and white. Two sighting tubes along slanted upper edge. Sundial sits in center of circular concrete base with brick facing.
	Charlestown	Massachusetts	USA	Horizontal Dial	268
	A 10 foot diameter bronze and granite horizontal dial with bronze gnomon and Arabic hour numerals on a 2 foot high granite base. Craftspeople of Colonial days are pictured on the face of the sundial. Sculptures depict a grandpa holding a baby while looking at the dial from the east side and a child peeking from behind the 5 foot tall bronze gnomon...
	South Burlington	Vermont	USA	Horizontal Dial	264
	An 8 foot wrought iron steel horizontal dial. Design is of two circles enclosing one another and quartered. Outer circle is 11 foot wide with beaded edges and Roman hour numerals. Inner circle is 3'4" diameter quartered disk. Surveyed in 1992, finding condition very poor; steel dial is rusted. No motto or plaque is provided.
	College Park	Maryland	USA	Horizontal Dial	260
	Very large horizontal dial 25 foot in diameter. Concrete dial with bronze gnomon 6' 6" high at tip. Has hour markers on raised circular slab. Metal disc with university seal in center of pierced gnomon. Adjacent graph provided correction for both EOT and mean/standard time differences. Due north or gnomon are shadow markers for date of year. Reloc...
	Sunderland	Maryland	USA	Horizontal Dial	259
	A brass horizontal dial 11.5 inches in diameter with a 7 inch high gnomon. The dial is intricately engraved and includes compass points and gradations of the clock to two minutes. Made by "E. Nairne", a London dial maker in the 1750's to 1800. Rector Stephanie Chase Wilson says "I believe it was made specifically for our church as it has the name "...
	Bethesda	Maryland	USA	Horizontal Dial	258
	Farenholt sundial for U.S. Naval Center Maryland. This cast bronze dial was designed and commissioned by RADM Farenholt for U.S. Naval Hospitals at bases where he was commanding officer, visited, or had special meaning to him. The dial is 18 inches (46cm) in diameter. The outer chapter ring has the motto, followed by a chapter ring with Arabic hou...
	Washington	District of Columbia	USA	Armillary Sphere	257
	The bronze armillary sphere dial is unremarkable yet is oriented accurately and is complete. About 2 feet in diameter. Hour numerals are Roman and show 5 AM to 7PM. It commemorates a longtime gallery official.
	Washington	District of Columbia	USA	Horizontal Dial	256
	Octagonal bronze horizontal dial, mounted just above the ground level. Designed by Richard Schmidt of the USNO staff and cast by Alex Bigler of Equestrian Forge celebrates the 100th anniversary of the move of the USNO to its present site at Observatory Circle. The USNO was founded in 1830. Public, but by appointment only (202-762-1438). The dia...
	Leesburg	Virginia	USA	Horizontal Dial	255
	A small bronze horizontal dial 9.25 inches (23.5 cm) in diameter on an 18 x 18 inch (46 x 46 cm) block of marble. The pedestal of Tennessee marble rests on the back of a carved tortoise. The sides of the square block capital are deeply carved with oak leaves and acorns. When the dial was seen in 1998, the dial was not aligned to north. The dial ...
	Alexandria	Virginia	USA	Horizontal Dial	254
	A bronze horizontal dial on a hexagonal pedestal. Gnomon angle measures 31.9°, wrong for local latitude. Gnomon is aligned southwest rather than true north. Dial sits in a former fountain installed in 1896.
	Alexandria	Virginia	USA	Vertical Dial	253
	A carved vertical dial approximately 46x41 inch, probably of sandstone, placed about 13 feet above street level. Dial face declines 22° W.
	New York	New York	USA	Horizontal Dial	251
	An 11 inch diameter bronze horizontal dial on a 3 foot pedestal. Tip of gnomon is broken.
	New York	New York	USA	Globe or Scaphe Dial	250
	Granite model of old roman hemicyclium dial with beautiful horizontal bronze gnomon with figure of woman. Hour and date lines may be incorrect. Slightly vandalized and chipped. This dial is a detail of a larger park bench that itself was designed to show time on the equinoxes; refer to Dial 614. The park bench alignment is nominally north but this ...
	New York	New York	USA	Horizontal Dial	249
	A 10 inch diameter rough brass horizontal dial, painted brown, on a 3 foot cement pedestal. Gnomon is damaged. Roman hour numerals. Dial sits atop a cast stone pedestal about 3 feet high.