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A weather beacon is a
beacon A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location. A common example is the lighthouse, which draws attention to a fixed point that can be used to navigate around obstacles or into port. More mode ...
that indicates the local
weather forecast Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the conditions of the atmosphere for a given location and time. People have attempted to predict the weather informally for millennia and formally since the 19th cent ...
in a
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of colored or flashing lights. Often, a short poem or
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accompanies the code to make it easier to remember. The beacon is usually on the roof of a tall building in a central business district, but some are attached to
tower A tower is a tall structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor. Towers are distinguished from masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting structures. Towers are specific ...
s. The beacons are most commonly owned by
financial services Financial services are the economic services provided by the finance industry, which encompasses a broad range of businesses that manage money, including credit unions, banks, credit-card companies, insurance companies, accountancy companies, ...
companies and television stations and are part of advertising and
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programs. They provide a very basic forecast for the general public and not as an aid to navigation. In addition to displaying weather forecasts, some weather beacons have been used to signal victory or defeat for a professional sports home team.


History


Precursors

In 1898 on the orders of U.S. President
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, coastal warning display towers were installed along the coast of the United States. In 1936, the ''Weather Girl'' sculptures were installed in City Hall Square in
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. In 1938,
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designed a
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billboard with a weather forecast display at
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Weather beacons

The first attempt to create a weather beacon as a form of advertising was from Douglas Leigh, who, in 1941, arranged a lighting scheme for the
Empire State Building The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The building was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and built from 1930 to 1931. Its name is derived from " Empire State", the nickname of the ...
to display a weather forecast code with a decoder to be packaged with Coca-Cola bottles. The plan was never implemented because of the
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later that year. Leigh resurrected his idea in
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in October 1949 with the Northwestern National Bank Weatherball. In Australia, the
Mutual Life and Citizens MLC was an Australian business that provides investments, insurance and superannuation solutions to corporate, institutional, and retail customers. Due to divestments in the early 21st century, there are now two businesses, with no ownership lin ...
insurance company installed weather beacons atop its buildings in 1957 and 1958.Federation and Meteorology, Memories of the Bureau, 1946 to 1962, page 1032
/ref> Weather beacons were most popular during the 1950s and 1960s.


Similar devices

* Coastal warning display tower *
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* ''Harbinger'' at The Met Condos, Toronto, is a colored beacon on the roof that indicates the current
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.


List of weather beacons


Australia

* New South Wales ** St. George Co-operative Building Society,
Hurstville Hurstville is a suburb in Southern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is 16 kilometres south of the Sydney CBD and is part of the St George area. Hurstville is the administrative centre of the local government area of the Georges Ri ...
(16 March 1973 − ????) ** MLC Building, 105 North Miller Street, North Sydney (31 December 1957 − ????) **
Westpac Place Westpac Place is a commercial skyscraper located in the north-western corridor of the Sydney central business district, Australia. The building is the bank's Australian headquarters. The building was built for the Westpac Office Trust, being in ...
, Sydney * Queensland **
Hitachi () is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It is the parent company of the Hitachi Group (''Hitachi Gurūpu'') and had formed part of the Nissan ''zaibatsu'' and later DKB Group and Fuyo G ...
Building (MLC Building), 239 George Street,
Brisbane Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of the South ...
(1976 – 6pm, 26 November 2007) ** Old MLC Building, 243 Edward Street, Brisbane (28 July 1958 – ????; non-functioning) * South Australia ** MLC Building (now Beacon House),
Victoria Square, Adelaide Victoria Square, also known as Tarntanyangga (formerly Tarndanyangga) (), is the central square of five public squares in the Adelaide city centre, South Australia. It is one of six squares designed by the founder of Adelaide, Colonel Willia ...
(June 1958 – December 1979) * Victoria ** Carlton & United Brewery, Abbotsford (May 1958 − ????) **
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(formerly MLC), 303 Collins Street, Melbourne (1973 – ????; non-functioning) ** 888 Collins Street, Melbourne (2016 − present) * Western Australia ** MLC Building (now Kingsgate Apartments), 171
St Georges Terrace, Perth St Georges Terrace (colloquially known as "The Terrace") is the main street in the city of Perth, Western Australia. It runs parallel to the Swan River and forms the major arterial road through the central business district. Its western e ...
(October 1957 – ????; dismantled)


Austria

* Wetterleuchtturm,
Ringturm Ringturm (Ring Tower) is a prominent skyscraper in Vienna, Austria, and is the headquarters of the Vienna Insurance Group. It was built from 1953 to 1955 after a design by Erich Boltenstern at the Schottenring. The tower is tall, with of offic ...
, Vienna


Belgium

* '' Who's afraid of Red, Green and Blue: Weather Tower'', Dexia Tower, Brussels (22 October 2007 – 22 December 2007)


Canada

* Capilano Brewery, 1550 Burrard Street,
Vancouver, British Columbia Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. The ...
(1953 − ????) * White Rose weather beacon, 570 Portage Avenue,
Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749,60 ...
(25 June 1964 − ????) *
Kitchener City Hall Kitchener City Hall is the seat of municipal government of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. It has gone through many iterations through the 20th century, culminating in the current building, which opened in 1993. History The original location of ...
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*
Canada Life Building The Canada Life Building is a historic office building in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The fifteen-floor Beaux Arts building was built by Sproatt & Rolph and stands at , including its weather beacon. It is located at University and Queen Street ...
, Toronto, Ontario (9 August 1951 – present) * Canada Life, 505
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, Quebec (12 April 1956 – January 1976) * The Plains Hotel,
Regina, Saskatchewan Regina () is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The city is the second-largest in the province, after Saskatoon, and is a commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. As of the 2021 census, Regina had a city populatio ...
(???? − 2011)


China

*
Gutzlaff Signal Tower The Gutzlaff Signal Tower, also known as the Bund Weather Tower or the Bund Signal Tower (外滩信号台), is a major landmark in Shanghai's The Bund (Shanghai), Bund. It is a 36.8m tall (50m focal height) signal station built in Art Deco style, ...
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Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Chinese, Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four Direct-administered municipalities of China, direct-administered municipalities of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the ...


Denmark

* '' vejrpigen'' (''Weather Girl''), Richshuset, The City Hall Square, Copenhagen (1936 − present) * ''Tomorrow's Weather'',
Aller Media Aller Media is a magazine publisher in the Nordic countries, headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. It publishes ''Elle'', ''Cafe'', ''Familie Journalen'', '' Femina'', ''Allers'' and ''Se og Hør''. History Aller Media was founded in Copenhagen ...
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Havneholmen, Copenhagen Havneholmen (literally "The Harbour Isle") is a mixed-use development located on reclaimed land off Kalvebod Brygge in the harbor of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is located just east of the shopping centre Fisketorvet from which it is separated by a ...
(2009 − present)


Finland

* Näsinneula tower,
Tampere Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population ...


Germany

* Wettersäule
Aachen Aachen ( ; ; Aachen dialect: ''Oche'' ; French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle; or ''Aquisgranum''; nl, Aken ; Polish: Akwizgran) is, with around 249,000 inhabitants, the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the 28th ...


Japan

*
Tempozan Ferris Wheel Tempozan Ferris Wheel is a 112 meter tall ferris wheel located in Osaka, Japan, at Tempozan Harbor Village, next to Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan, one of the largest aquariums in the world. The wheel has a height of and diameter of . Description Te ...
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, Osaka


Russia

* Boiler House Weather Beacon,
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Sweden

* ''Tomorrow's Weather'',
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Stockholm Stockholm () is the capital and largest city of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.4 million in the metropo ...


Turkey

* Beyazıt Tower,
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United Kingdom

* Light Towers Project (Coventry Point, Mercia House, Hillman House),
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* Castlemilk Lighting Project,
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* Empire Square Tower,
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United States

* Arizona ** St. Luke's Medical Center, Phoenix (1960 − February 1969 on The Arizona Bank; March 1969 − ????; dismantled) * California ** Mattei Building (formerly Guarantee Savings),
Fresno Fresno () is a major city in the San Joaquin Valley of California, United States. It is the county seat of Fresno County and the largest city in the greater Central Valley region. It covers about and had a population of 542,107 in 2020, maki ...
(1965 – 1994) ** ABC10 Weather Tower,
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(24 August 2001 – 2014; non-functioning) ** One Rincon Hill South Tower,
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(8 December 2008 – present) * Colorado ** National Farmers Union, 1575 Sherman Street,
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(1956 − 1970; dismantled) * Florida ** Mercantile National Bank, 420 Lincoln Road,
Miami Beach Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on natural and man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter of which ...
(23 February 1957 − ????; dismantled) ** American Federal Savings and Loan Association weather ball, Fidelity Storage building, 53 W. Jackson St.,
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(1963 – 1974; dismantled) ** First Federal Savings & Loan, Fourth Street and Central Avenue,
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(1953 – 6 April 1970; dismantled) * Illinois ** Weather Bell, Bell Federal Savings (now
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), 79 West Monroe Street,
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(???? − present) *** Bell Federal Savings branch office, 180 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago (???? − 1996; dismantled) **
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Thermometer,
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, Chicago (1964 – 1978; dismantled) **
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weather beacon, State Bank Center, 50 West Douglas Street, Freeport (1974 − ????; dismantled) * Iowa **
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(1960 − 1973, 1988 − 2012; non-functioning) ** American Trust Tower,
Dubuque Dubuque (, ) is the county seat of Dubuque County, Iowa, United States, located along the Mississippi River. At the time of the 2020 census, the population of Dubuque was 59,667. The city lies at the junction of Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin, a ...
(1975 − present) **
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Weather Ball, Terra Centre,
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(1995–present) ** KVTV/KCAU-TV Weather Ball, Badgerow Building, Sioux City (1961–1973) ** National Bank of Waterloo, 315 East Fifth Street, Waterloo (???? − ????; dismantled) * Kentucky **
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Weather Lights, Cincinnati Radisson, Covington ** ''Tomorrow's Weather'',
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(2016 − present) * Louisiana ** Falstaff Brewery Weather Ball, 2601 Gravier St,
New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans
(1 August 1952 – 7 December 1978; 2008 – present) * Massachusetts ** Berkeley Building,
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(15 March 1950 – present) * Michigan ** Citizens Bank (currently
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) Weatherball,
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(30 October 1956 – present) ** 13 Weatherball,
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; 2003 – present) * Minnesota ** KCCO Weatherball, Alexandria (???? − March 2006) **
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Weather Beacon, 331 W. Superior Street,
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Northwestern National Bank Norwest Corporation was a banking and financial services company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. In 1998, it merged with Wells Fargo & Co. and since that time has operated under the Wells Fargo name. History Early formation Th ...
Weatherball,
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(7 October 1949 – 25 November 1982; dismantled) *** Nicollet Island/East Bank branch office, 430 East Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis (dismantled) *** Riverside branch office, 401 Cedar Avenue, Minneapolis (dismantled) ***
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branch office, 3006
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, Minneapolis (dismantled) ***
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branch office, 111 E. 3rd Street, Hastings (dismantled) ***
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branch office, 109 N. 1st Street, Montevideo (dismantled) ***
Rochester Rochester may refer to: Places Australia * Rochester, Victoria Canada * Rochester, Alberta United Kingdom *Rochester, Kent ** City of Rochester-upon-Medway (1982–1998), district council area ** History of Rochester, Kent ** HM Prison ...
branch office, 15 2nd Street, SW, Rochester (dismantled) ***
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branch office, 360 Robert Street N, Saint Paul (dismantled) ***
Sauk Rapids Sauk Rapids is a city in Benton County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 13,862 at the 2020 census and is 13,896 according to 2021 census estimates, about a third of Benton County's population. It is on a set of rapids on the Mis ...
branch office, 24 N. Benton Drive, Sauk Rapids (15 September 1961 − ????; dismantled) **
WCCO-TV WCCO-TV (channel 4) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, broadcasting the CBS network to the Twin Cities area. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division, and maintains studio ...
Weather Watcher,
Nicollet Mall Nicollet Mall is a twelve-block portion of Nicollet Avenue running through downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It is the shopping and dining district of the city, and also a pedestrian mall and transit mall. Along with Hennepin ...
, Minneapolis (29 November 2013 − present) * Missouri ** Business Men's Assurance Company (BMA) weather beacon, 215 W. Pershing Road, Kansas City (dismantled) **
KCTV Tower KCTV (channel 5) is a television station in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Gray Television alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate KSMO-TV (channel 62). Both stations share studios on Shawnee Mission Parkway ...
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(1970s − 2001) ** Terra Cotta Lofts (formerly occupied by the Missouri State Life Insurance Company and later the
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), 1501 Locust Street,
St. Louis St. Louis () is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a population of 301,578, while the bi-state metropolitan area, which e ...
(1956 – 1979; non-functioning) **State Bank of Wellston, Wellston (1954 − 16 May 2014; dismantled) * Montana ** Midland Bank (now US Bank Tower), 303 N. Broadway,
Billings Billings is the largest city in the U.S. state of Montana, with a population of 117,116 as of the 2020 census. Located in the south-central portion of the state, it is the seat of Yellowstone County and the principal city of the Billings Metro ...
(dismantled) ** Union Bank (now Wells Fargo) Weatherball, 350 N. Last Chance Gulch,
Helena Helena may refer to: People *Helena (given name), a given name (including a list of people and characters with the name) *Katri Helena (born 1945), Finnish singer *Helena, mother of Constantine I Places Greece * Helena (island) Guyana * H ...
(1959 − ????; dismantled) * Nebraska **
KMTV KMTV-TV (channel 3) is a television station in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, affiliated with CBS. Owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, the station has studios on Mockingbird Drive in southwest Omaha, and its transmitter is located on a "tower ...
Weather Tower, N. 72nd Street,
Omaha Omaha ( ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. The nation's 39th-largest c ...
(non-functioning) * New Mexico ** KOBeacon, KOB,
Sandia Crest Sandia Crest, also known locally as Sandia Peak or simply as the Crest, is a mountain ridge that, at , is the highpoint of the Sandia–Manzano Mountains, and is located in the Sandia Mountains of Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United State ...
,
Albuquerque Albuquerque ( ; ), ; kee, Arawageeki; tow, Vakêêke; zun, Alo:ke:k'ya; apj, Gołgéeki'yé. abbreviated ABQ, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Its nicknames, The Duke City and Burque, both reference its founding i ...
(???? − 26 December 1966; non-functioning) * New York **
1740 Broadway 1740 Broadway (formerly the MONY Building or Mutual of New York Building) is a 26-story building on the east side of Broadway, between 55th and 56th Streets, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. The building is owned by EQ O ...
(formerly
MONY Mony may refer to: People * Abdul Hamid Mony (born 1989), Indonesian footballer * Pierre Mony (1896–1980), French international footballer * Olivier Mony (born 1966), French writer and journalist * Sivaram Mony (born 1991), Indian feature f ...
),
New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...
(non-functioning) ** AXA Towers (MONY) Weatherstar,
Syracuse Syracuse may refer to: Places Italy * Syracuse, Sicily, or spelled as ''Siracusa'' * Province of Syracuse United States *Syracuse, New York **East Syracuse, New York ** North Syracuse, New York * Syracuse, Indiana *Syracuse, Kansas *Syracuse, M ...
* North Dakota ** KFYR, Provident Life building, Bismarck (1954 − present) * Ohio ** 12 WKRC Weather Beacon,
Chiquita Chiquita Brands International Sàrl (), formerly known as Chiquita Brands International Inc. and United Fruit Co., is a Swiss-domiciled American producer and distributor of bananas and other produce. The company operates under a number of ...
Center,
Cincinnati Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line w ...
(1987 – 1990s?) **
WKYC WKYC (channel 3) is a television station in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Tegna Inc. Its studios are located on Tom Beres Way (a section of Lakeside Avenue in Downtown Cleveland named after the station's lon ...
Weather Beacon,
Cleveland Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the United States, U.S. U.S. state, state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along ...
(???? − present) * Oklahoma ** Liberty National Bank and Trust, Ramsey Tower/City Place,
Oklahoma City Oklahoma City (), officially the City of Oklahoma City, and often shortened to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, it ranks 20th among United States cities in population, and ...
(6 April 1958 − ????; dismantled) ** National Bank of Tulsa Weather Teller,
320 South Boston Building The 320 South Boston Building (formerly known as the National Bank of Tulsa Building) is a 22-story high-rise building located in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was originally constructed at the corner of Third Street and Boston Avenue as a ten-sto ...
,
Tulsa Tulsa () is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 47th-most populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 census. It is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region wit ...
(1 May 1967 −1973) * Oregon ** Standard Insurance Plaza, 1100 SW 6th Avenue, Portland (1964 − present) ** '' Weather Machine'',
Pioneer Courthouse Square Pioneer Courthouse Square, also known as Portland's living room, is a public space occupying a full city block in the center of downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. Opened in 1984, the square is bounded by Southwest Morrison Street on ...
, Portland (24 August 1988 − present) * Pennsylvania **
WJAC-TV WJAC-TV (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States, serving the Johnstown– Altoona– State College market as an affiliate of NBC and The CW Plus. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which pro ...
Weather Beacon
Johnstown, Pennsylvania Johnstown is a city in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 18,411 as of the 2020 census. Located east of Pittsburgh, Johnstown is the principal city of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Metropolitan Statistical Area, whi ...
(1963 – present) ** Handy Flame,
Equitable Gas EQT Corporation is an American energy company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration and pipeline transport. It is headquartered in EQT Plaza in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. EQT is the largest natural gas producer in the Appalachian Basin with 19.802 ...
, 420 Boulevard of the Allies,
Pittsburgh Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester ...
(1956 − 1972; dismantled) **
KDKA-TV KDKA-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, airing programming from the CBS network. It is owned-and-operated station, owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division a ...
Weather Beacon,
Gulf Tower The Gulf Tower is a 44-story, Art Deco skyscraper in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The tower is one of the major distinctive and recognizable features of the city and is named for the Gulf Oil Corporation, one of the leading multinational ...
, Pittsburgh (late 1970s − present)(Updated in 2012) **
WTAE-TV WTAE-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with ABC. It has been owned by Hearst Television since the station's inception, making this one of two stations that have been built and signed o ...
Weather Cone,
Carnegie Science Center The Carnegie Science Center is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is located in the Chateau neighborhood. It is located across the street from Heinz Field. Overview The Carnegie Science Center is the most visited mu ...
, Pittsburgh (2000 – present) **
Berks County Berks County (Pennsylvania German: ''Barricks Kaundi'') is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 428,849. The county seat is Reading. The Schuylkill River, a tributary of the Delaware River, ...
Courthouse, 633 Court Street,
Reading Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of letters, symbols, etc., especially by sight or touch. For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spell ...
(???? − 1995) * South Dakota **
KELO-TV KELO-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States, affiliated with CBS and MyNetworkTV. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group, and maintains studios on Phillips Avenue in downtown Sioux Falls; its tra ...
weatherball, Sherman Hotel,
Aberdeen Aberdeen (; sco, Aiberdeen ; gd, Obar Dheathain ; la, Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), a ...
(dismantled) ** KDLO-TV weatherball, Marvin Hughitt Hotel, 375 Dakota S.,
Huron Huron may refer to: People * Wyandot people (or Wendat), indigenous to North America * Wyandot language, spoken by them * Huron-Wendat Nation, a Huron-Wendat First Nation with a community in Wendake, Quebec * Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawato ...
(6 April 1960 − ????; dismantled) ** First National Bank,
Pierre Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...
** KELO weatherball, 100 North Phillips Avenue, Sioux Falls (dismantled) ** National Bank of South Dakota (now
US Bank U.S. Bancorp (stylized as us bancorp) is an American bank holding company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and incorporated in Delaware. It is the parent company of U.S. Bank National Association, and is the fifth largest banking institution ...
), 141 N. Main Avenue, Sioux Falls (non-functioning) *** East Branch, East 10th & Omaha, Sioux Falls (dismantled) *** South Branch, 33rd & Minnesota, Sioux Falls (non-functioning) *** Sunset Branch, West 41st & Louise Avenue (dismantled) ** KDLO weatherball tower, 421 9th Av SE, Watertown (dismantled) ** KXLG Weatherball, 835 Jensen Avenue, Watertown (22 May 2014 − present) * Tennessee ** Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company, Maclellan Building, 721 Broad Street,
Chattanooga Chattanooga ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States. Located along the Tennessee River bordering Georgia, it also extends into Marion County on its western end. With a population of 181,099 in 2020, ...
(12 January 1952 – ????; dismantled) **
Life & Casualty Tower The Life & Casualty Tower (also known as the L & C Tower) is a skyscraper in Nashville, Tennessee located at 401 Church Street (Nashville, Tennessee), Church Street. It stands 152.5 meters (409 ft) and has 30 floors. It was designed by Edwin ...
,
Nashville Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the most populous city in the state, 21st most-populous city in the U.S., and th ...
(non-functioning) * Texas ** WNL Weather Tower, Western National Life Insurance, 205 SE 10th Avenue,
Amarillo Amarillo ( ; Spanish for " yellow") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Potter County. It is the 14th-most populous city in Texas and the largest city in the Texas Panhandle. A portion of the city extends into Randall Cou ...
(dismantled) ** Mercantile Weather Tower,
Mercantile National Bank Building The Mercantile National Bank Building (known colloquially as The Merc) is a 31-story, skyscraper at 1800 Main Street in the Main Street district of downtown Dallas, Texas. It is the former home of the Mercantile National Bank, which later beca ...
,
Dallas Dallas () is the third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and seat of Dallas County ...
(1958–1993; 12 February 2008 – present) **
Blue Flame Building The Blue Flame Building or the El Paso Natural Gas Company Building is a skyscraper in El Paso, Texas. It was briefly the tallest building in El Paso upon its completion in 1954. The building housed the El Paso Natural Gas Company until 1996 when ...
, 100 North Stanton Street, El Paso (26 March 1955 – ????; 27 July 2021 – present) ** Texas National Bank/
Conoco Conoco Inc. ( ) was an American oil and gas company that operated from 1875 until 2002, when it merged with Phillips Petroleum to form ConocoPhillips. Founded by Isaac Elder Blake in 1875 as the "Continental Oil and Transportation Company". Curr ...
Weather Eye, Travis Tower, 1300 Main Street,
Houston Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 ...
(17 October 1955 – 1964; dismantled) ** Alamo National Bank weather spire (now Drury Plaza Hotel), 105 S. St. Mary's Street,
San Antonio ("Cradle of Freedom") , image_map = , mapsize = 220px , map_caption = Interactive map of San Antonio , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1= State , subdivision_name1 = Texas , subdivision_ ...
(non-functioning) * Utah ** Ford's Finance & Insurance, 2627 Washington Boulevard, Ogden (???? − ????; dismantled) **
KSL-TV KSL-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is the flagship television property of locally based Bonneville International, the for-profit broadcasting arm of the Church of Jesus Chr ...
5 Eyewitness Weather Tower, Trolley Square,
Salt Lake City Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and most populous city of Utah, United States. It is the seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in Utah. With a population of 200,133 in 2020, th ...
(1999 − present) **
KTVX KTVX (channel 4) is a television station in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, affiliated with ABC. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Ogden-licensed CW owned-and-operated station KUCW (channel 30). Both stations share studios on ...
Weather Ball, 2175 West 1700 South, Salt Lake City (???? − present) **
Walker Center Walker Center (formerly Walker Bank Building) is a skyscraper in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Description The building was opened on December 9, 1912, taking a little over a year to be built. At the time of its completion, it stood as ...
, 175 S. Main Street, Salt Lake City (1953 – 1982; 2008 – present) * Virginia ** Newmarket Shopping Center, Newport News, Virginia, Newport News (1953 − ????; dismantled) * Wisconsin ** Weather Beacon, H. C. Prange Co., 301 N. Washington Street, Green Bay, Wisconsin, Green Bay (26 September 1952 − ????; dismantled) ** Weather Flame, Wisconsin Gas Building, 626 East Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee (1956 – 1973, 1985 − present) ** Oshkosh National Bank, 300 N. Main Street, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Oshkosh (9 May 1952 − ????; dismantled) ** Weather 9, WAOW, 1908 Grand Avenue, Wausau, Wisconsin, Wausau (1965 − present)


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