Name/Title
Seth Thomas Mahogany No. 4 Regulator Clock | c. 1900-1925 |Description
Gift from Bangor Savings Bank, Bangor, Maine, 2023.
From FaceBook post for Tides Institute & Museum of Art, July 11, 2023:
A CLOCK RETURNS! A tall (nearly 5 feet in length) wall clock that once graced the walls of our main building, the former Eastport Savings Bank building, in downtown Eastport, Maine has recently returned. We’re trying to find more about the history of the clock. We’re told the clock hung in the main lobby of the Eastport Savings Bank. Then after this bank was absorbed by the Bangor Savings Bank and a new branch building was built at the top of a hill on nearby Washington Street, the clock travelled there and hung in the conference room. A recent remodeling of this branch building did not allow for the clock to remain there. We made some inquiries and Bangor Savings Bank was willing to donate the clock to our collections and have the clock return to its original bank building home (now our main building). This is where it now is. We’re grateful to Bangor Savings Bank for their generosity and consideration. Now to find out more about the clock. It has a Seth Thomas clock face. But the large tall mahogany wooden case appears to have been custom built. Perhaps it was made to note an Eastport Savings Bank anniversary of some sort. We’re hoping someone may know more. Thank you.
See FaceBook Comments below. The clock originally hung in the lobby of the First National Bank (later Fleet Bank) on Water Street in Eastport. Bangor Savings Bank took over Fleet Bank and moved the clock to their new Eastport Branch bank building on Washington Street in Eastport.
Ann Marie Bellefleur
Bonita L. Smith do you have any information on this clock?
Bonita L. Smith
Ann Marie Bellefleur when Bangor savings move the clock from the old fleet bank. It was cleaned and put into working condition by the clock dock at that time from Dennysville.
Bonita L. Smith
That would’ve been 1996
Bonita L. Smith
Ann Marie Bellefleur no. I only only know that it hung for a long time across the street at Merrill trust bank. Lou Esposito was the manager at the time I began working for Bangor Savings Bank . When Bangor Savings acquired fleet. We took the clock from the old fleet bank, and put it at the Bangor Savings Bank on Washington Street. I don’t remember it ever having been at the old Bangor Savings Bank/E sport savings bank. I only remember it being on the wall at the bank across the street which would’ve been the old fleet building.
Hugh French
Bonita L. Smith Thank you very much. Do you recall which wall the clock hung on at the old Fleet Bank branch on Water Street?
Bonita L. Smith
Hugh French yes 👍 n the same side as the front door.
Hugh French
Bonita L. Smith Thank you ever so much!
Brian Smith
Very impressive!
Michelle Wilson Stanhope
How about asking Andy and Nancy Seeley? He was the Bangor Saving manager when I was a kid in the building that is now the Tides Institute. Reading through the comments another person who may know is Carolyn Baxter. She worked at the old Merrill Bank .
Lori Williams ODonnell
I grew up in Thomaston CT, there is a Facebook page of Thomaston History where people discuss the clocks, someone may have some information. My grandparents are from Deer Island, a great Aunt from DI worked at Seth Thomas Clocks during the 30’s and 40’s.
James Pollowitz
This is a great discovery.
Alden Chandler
Terrific!
Ann Marie Bellefleur
This is great news. I worked with this clock for 23 years but never knew where it came from
Bonita L. Smith
Ann Marie Bellefleur I’m surprise that you didn’t remember that we moved it from the old fleet branch in 1996
Ann Marie Bellefleur
Bonita L. Smith I thought so but wasn’t sure
Tedeke Muri
Seth Thomas also made metronomes. I have one.
