User:SDC/sandbox/wb

List of weather beacons

Australia

• New South Wales
  • MLC Building, North Sydney^[1]
  • Westpac Place, Sydney^[2]

• Queensland
  • Hitachi Building (MLC Building), Brisbane (1976 – 6PM, 26 November 2007)^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]}
  • Old MLC Building, 243 Edward Street, Brisbane (28 July 1958 – ????; non-functioning)^[11]

• South Australia
  • Beacon House (MLC Building), Adelaide^[12][13]

• Victoria
  • IOOF Building (formerly MLC), 303 Collins Street, Melbourne (1973 – ????; non-functioning)^[14][15]
  • Carlton & United Brewery, Abbotsford^[15]

• Who's afraid of Red, Green and Blue: Weather Tower, Dexia Tower, Brussels (22 October 2007 – 22 December 2007)^[16][17]

Canada

• Canada Life Building, Toronto, Ontario (9 August 1951 – present)
• 505
  boulevard René-Lévesque Ouest, Montreal, Quebec (dismantled)^[18][19]

• Die Aachener Wettersäule, Aachen^[20]

Turkey

• Beyazıt Tower, Istanbul^[21]

United Kingdom

• Light Towers Project (Coventry Point, Mercia House, Hillman House), Coventry^[22][23][24]

United States

• California
  • Mattei Building (formerly Guarantee Savings), Fresno (non-functioning)^[25]
  • KXTV Weather Tower, Sacramento (24 August 2001 – present)^[26]

• Florida
  • American Federal Savings and Loan Association weather ball, Fidelity Storage building, 53 W. Jackson St., Orlando (1963 – 1974; dismantled)^[27][28]

• Illinois
  • Weather Bell, Bell Federal Savings Building (street level), 79 West Monroe Street, Chicago^{[29][30][31][32]}
    • Bell Federal Savings branch office, Michigan Avenue, Chicago^[33]
  • WLS-TV Thermometer, Marina City, Chicago (1964 – 1978; dismantled)^[34]

• Iowa
  • Des Moines^[35][36][37]
    (non-functioning and soon to be dismantled as of 27 September 2012)
  • American Trust Tower, Dubuque
  • Sioux City^[38]

• Louisiana
  • Falstaff Brewery Weather Ball, New Orleans (1 August 1952 – 7 December 1978; restoration planned for 2008)^{[39][40][41][42][43][44][45]}

• Massachusetts
  • Boston (15 March 1950 – present)^[46]

• Michigan
  • Citizens Bank Weatherball, Flint (30 October 1956 – present)^[47]
  • WZZM-TV, Grand Rapids (1967 – 1987 as Michigan National Bank; 2003 – present)^{[48][49][50][51]}

• Minnesota
  • WEBC Weather Beacon, Duluth^[52]
  • Northwestern National Bank Weatherball, Minneapolis (7 October 1949 – November 1982; dismantled)^{[53][54][55][56][57][58]}
    • Saint Paul branch office (dismantled)^[59]
    • Montevideo branch office
    • Rochester branch office^[60]
• Missouri
  • KCTV Tower, Kansas City
  • Business Men's Assurance Company (BMA) weather beacon, 215 W. Pershing Road, Kansas City (dismantled)^[61][62]
  • Terra Cotta Lofts and Red Moon Restaurant (formerly Great American Life Insurance Company building),
    St. Louis (1956 – 1979)^{[63][64][65][66][67]}

• Montana
  • US Bank Tower, Billings (dismantled)^[68]
  • Union Bank Weather Ball, Helena^[69]

• Nebraska
  • Omaha

• New York
  • Mony, Mony
    but is no longer using color coding although temperature is still flashed)
  • AXA (MONY) Weatherstar, Syracuse

• North Dakota
  • Provident Beacon, Bismarck^[72][73][74]

• Ohio
  • Chiquita Center, Cincinnati (non-functioning)^[75]

• Oklahoma
  • First Liberty Bank, Ramsey Tower/City Place, Oklahoma City (dismantled)^[76]
  • NBT Weather Teller,
    Tulsa^[77][78][79]

• Oregon
  • Standard Insurance Plaza, Portland^{[80][81][82][83][84]}
  • Weather Machine, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland

• Pennsylvania
  • WTAE-TV Weather Watch, Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh^[85][86]
  • Gulf Tower, Pittsburgh ^[87][88]

• South Dakota
  • KELO weatherball, Sherman Hotel, Aberdeen (dismantled)^[89]
  • First National Bank, Pierre
  • National Bank of South Dakota (now
    Sioux Falls (non-functioning)^[90]
    • East Branch, East 10th & Omaha, Sioux Falls (dismantled)
    • South Branch, 33rd & Minnesota, Sioux Falls (non-functioning)[91]^[92]
    • Sunset Branch, West 41st & Louise Avenue (dismantled)

• Tennessee
  • Provident Weather Beacon, Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company (now
    Chattanooga (12 January 1952 – ????; dismantled)^[93][94]

• Texas
  • Mercantile Weather Tower, Mercantile National Bank Building, Dallas (1958–????; 12 February 2008 – present)^[95][96][97]
  • Texas National Bank (later
    Houston (17 October 1955 – 1964; dismantled)^{[98][99][100][101][102][103]}
  • Alamo National Bank weather spire (now Drury Plaza Hotel), San Antonio^[104][105]

• Utah
  • KSL-TV 5 Eyewitness Weather Tower, Trolley Square, Salt Lake City^[106]
  • Walker Center, Salt Lake City^[107]

• Virginia
  • Newmarket Shopping Center,
    Newport News^{[citation needed}
    ]
• Wisconsin
  • Weather Flame, Wisconsin Gas Building, Milwaukee^{[108][109][110]}

Table

Photo	Name	Owner	Location	Current status	Dates	Code	Poem
Photo	Weather flame	Wisconsin Gas	Wisconsin Gas Building 626 E. Wisconsin Avenue Milwaukee, Wisconsin 43°02′20″N 87°54′11″W / 43.039°N 87.903°W / 43.039; -87.903	Operational	present	Blue Gold Red	Poem
	13 Weatherball	WZZM-TV	645 Three Mile Road, NW Grand Rapids, Michigan 43°00′52″N 85°41′04″W / 43.0145°N 85.68445°W / 43.0145; -85.68445	Operational	1967 – 1987 2003 – present	Blue Red Green	Poem
	13 Weatherball	WZZM-TV	645 Three Mile Road, NW Grand Rapids, Michigan 43°00′52″N 85°41′04″W / 43.0145°N 85.68445°W / 43.0145; -85.68445	Operational	1967 – 1987 2003 – present	Blue Red Green
	MONY	AXA	Broadway New York, New York 43°00′52″N 85°41′04″W / 43.0145°N 85.68445°W / 43.0145; -85.68445	Operational	1967 – 1987 2003 – present	Green Orange White	Green light, weather bright Orange on high, overcast sky Orange flashing, raindrops splashing Flickering white, snow in sight

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