The Verdin Company
IndustryBellfounding
Founded1842 (1842)
Headquarters
Cincinnati, Ohio
,
United States
Key people
Bob Verdin (CEO)
Websiteverdin.com

The Verdin Company is a manufacturer of bronze bells, clocks and towers based in Cincinnati, Ohio in the United States. The company has been making bells for use in bell and clock towers, peals, chimes, and carillons since 1842.[1] The company also manufactures electronic carillons, street clocks, glockenspiels, and monuments. There is now an organ division serving churches and other institutions combining organ and bell music.

The Verdin Company is headquartered in an historic five-building church complex in the Over the Rhine neighborhood in Cincinnati. The complex and church were restored in 1983 and now include the Bell Event Centre.

The Verdin Company has been a family business for over six generations. Bob Verdin is currently the company's CEO.[1]

Notable installations

The World Peace Bell in Newport, Kentucky, United States (33,285 kg / 73,381 lbs. with a width of 12 feet / 3.7 m); it was cast in 1999 under Verdin's direction by the Paccard Foundry near Annecy, France. Other notable installations include the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the Smithsonian Institution, the Canadian Parliament Buildings and Walt Disney World Resort, and the 88 bronze bells cast for the Ohio Bicentennial.

Verdin Company also crafted a 24-inch brass bell for the Seaport Shrine in Boston.[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 WKRC, BOB HERZOG (2023-01-13). "Verdin Company bells have chimed for more than 180 years in dozens of countries". WKRC. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
  2. ↑ Our Lady of Good Voyage. Archdiocese of Boston. p. 4. "This booklet has been published through the generous donation of John B. Hynes, III, Managing Partner at Boston Global Investors, in honor and memory of his grandfather, Mayor John B. Hynes, his father, Jack Hynes, and his mother, Marie Kelly Hynes. Mayor Hines was instrumental in founding the original Our Lady of Good Voyage in 1952. His son Jack hoped that this new Shrine would perpetuate the true mission of his Catholic faith to the thousands of new residents of Boston's emerging Seaport.".

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