Shafer Tower
Shafer Tower is a 150-foot-tall free-standing bell tower, or campanile with a carillon and chiming clock in the middle of the campus of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Frog Baby Fountain and Bracken Library.
Frog Baby Fountain
Fountain
Frog Baby Fountain is a statue set in the middle of a fountain on the Ball State University campus. It is known as a sign of good luck and is a popular meeting place.
Bracken Library
Library
Photo: Momoneymoproblemz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Alexander M. Bracken Library is the main library on the campus of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Opened in September 1975 and designed by Walter Scholer and Associates and the Perkins and Will Partnership of Chicago, the 320,000-square-foot facility is located in the geographic center of the Ball State University campus and is distinguishable for its unique, Brutalist architecture. Bracken Library is situated 550 feet southeast of Shafer Tower.
John R. Emens College-Community Auditorium
Theater building
The John R. Emens College-Community Auditorium, or Emens Auditorium, is an auditorium on the campus of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, United States. John R. Emens College-Community Auditorium is situated 1,000 feet south of Shafer Tower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Muncie and Cammack.
Muncie
Photo: Kpaul.mallasch, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Muncie, named after the "Munsee" clan of Lenape people and home to Ball State University, is a city in the east of Central Indiana. It was an industrial titan in its time but then felt the effects of deindustrialization.
Cammack
Hamlet
Cammack is an unincorporated community in Mount Pleasant Township, Delaware County, Indiana. Cammack is situated 4½ miles west of Shafer Tower.
West Muncie
Hamlet
Yorktown is a town in Mount Pleasant Township, Delaware County, Indiana, United States. The population was 11,548 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Muncie, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area. West Muncie is situated 4½ miles southwest of Shafer Tower.
Shafer Tower
- Type: Tower
- Description: Bell tower in Muncie, Indiana, US
- Categories: bell tower and building
- Location: Center Township, Delaware, Indiana, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.2038° or 40° 12′ 14″ northLongitude
-85.40801° or 85° 24′ 29″ westHeight
151 feet (46 metres)Open location code
86GP6H3R+GQOpenStreetMap ID
way 291964115OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=towerWikidata ID
Q7461004
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