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The Colgate Clock is an
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facing the
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near Exchange Place in
Jersey City, New Jersey Jersey City is the List of municipalities in New Jersey, second-most populous
. The clock has a diameter of . It was located atop of what was once the headquarters of the
Colgate-Palmolive The Colgate-Palmolive Company, commonly known as Colgate-Palmolive, is an American multinational corporation, multinational consumer products company headquartered on Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The company specializes in ...
, until 1985, when it was moved to a ground-level location south of that building, which was demolished and replaced with the Goldman Sachs Tower.


History

The Colgate Clock once perched atop the Colgate plant at 85-99 Hudson Street in
Jersey City Jersey City is the List of municipalities in New Jersey, second-most populous
, New Jersey. This clock was built in 1924 to replace an earlier clock designed by Colgate engineer Warren Davey and constructed by the Seth Thomas Clock Company for Colgate's centennial in 1906. After it was replaced, the earlier clock was relocated to a Colgate factory in
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. The Jersey City clock was maintained by John A. Winters from the 1930s until his retirement in 1976. As of 2005, the Colgate Clock stands on an otherwise empty lot. The other buildings in the complex were demolished in 1985 when Colgate left. The lot is located along the Hudson River waterfront and the clock itself is south of the Goldman Sachs Tower, once the tallest skyscraper in the state of New Jersey. The construction of that building in the early 2000s forced a relocation of the clock southward. At that time, the size of the Colgate advertisement attached to it was reduced to comply with the Hudson River No Billboard law, and Goldman Sachs agreed to maintain the clock. The clock is a mandatory reporting point for flights below Class B airspace in the Hudson River VFR corridor. In 2013, the clock was refurbished, outfitted with
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lights, and reinstalled on the waterfront near the Goldman-Sachs tower.


Gallery

File:Colgate Clock in situ crop.jpg, The original location of the clock File:Did I Brush My Teeth This Morning?? (1876266303).jpg, The clock in 2007 File:Colgate clock back crop.jpg, The rear of the clock, with
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in the background File:Colgate-clock.jpg, The clock at night, with the Goldman Sachs Tower in the foreground File:9.30.22ColgateClockByLuigiNovi6.jpg, The clock and the bench at its foot. Visible in the background are the
Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal The Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal, also known as Communipaw Terminal and Jersey City Terminal, was the Central Railroad of New Jersey's waterfront passenger terminal in Jersey City, New Jersey. The terminal was built in 1889, replaci ...
and the
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. File:9.23.22ColgateClockByLuigiNovi5.jpg, Inscribed on the bench at the foot of the clock are the words "The Colgate Clock: Marking the Passage of Time since 1908."


See also

* Colgate Clock (Indiana) * List of public art in Jersey City, New Jersey


References


External links

* * * (original location) {{Colgate-Palmolive Buildings and structures completed in 1924 Buildings and structures in Jersey City, New Jersey Clocks in the United States Colgate-Palmolive Historic American Engineering Record in New Jersey Individual signs in the United States Tourist attractions in Jersey City, New Jersey Advertising structures 1924 establishments in New Jersey Public art in Jersey City, New Jersey