{"id":3467,"date":"2024-03-07T16:29:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T00:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/?p=3467"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:25:17","slug":"five-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-burns-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/2024\/03\/07\/five-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-burns-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Five things you probably didn&#8217;t know about Burns Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-jetpack-image-compare\"><div class=\"juxtapose\" data-mode=\"horizontal\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"3482\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Burns-edit-2-1.jpg?resize=980%2C1225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"1225\" class=\"image-compare__image-before\"\/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"3483\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Burns-edit-2000-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C1500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1500\" class=\"image-compare__image-after\"\/><\/div><figcaption>Burns Tower under construction, late 1962, vs. Burns Tower today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>A feat of architectural design, Burns Tower has stood proudly at the eastern end of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacific.edu\/stockton-campus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pacific\u2019s Stockton campus<\/a> for over 60 years. The iconic landmark is widely known for impressive Gothic spires and luminous stained glass\u2014but there&#8217;s a rich and fascinating story inside its walls.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"o-typing-faster\"><mark style=\"background-color:var(--nv-c-1)\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><o-anim-typing><em>\u201cIn the dedication of Robert E. Burns Tower on Sunday, March 8,1964, the solid construction and vertical dimension of the building symbolize the far-reaching objectives to be attained; its name represents the man most eager to get on with the task.\u201d &#8211; <\/em>Pacific Review<em>, February 1964&nbsp;<\/em><\/o-anim-typing><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"614\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"3486\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.png?resize=614%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.png?resize=614%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 614w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.png?resize=180%2C300&amp;ssl=1 180w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.png?resize=400%2C667&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.png?w=632&amp;ssl=1 632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"3488\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-2.png?resize=625%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-2.png?resize=625%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 625w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-2.png?resize=183%2C300&amp;ssl=1 183w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-2.png?resize=400%2C656&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-2.png?w=726&amp;ssl=1 726w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Early concept designs for Burns Tower, circa 1960. Pulled from Pacific Review archives.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Here are five interesting historic facts you may not know about Burns Tower.\u00a0\u00a0<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">#1. There is a water tower <em>inside<\/em> Burns Tower\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"807\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.jpeg?resize=807%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.jpeg?resize=807%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 807w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.jpeg?resize=236%2C300&amp;ssl=1 236w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.jpeg?resize=768%2C974&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.jpeg?resize=1211%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1211w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.jpeg?resize=1250%2C1586&amp;ssl=1 1250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.jpeg?resize=400%2C508&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image.jpeg?w=1261&amp;ssl=1 1261w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 807px) 100vw, 807px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Photo by Joel Phal Dardis, circa November 1962&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Burns Tower is beautiful, yes, but did you know the original reason for its construction was to mask a potential eyesore? Around 1960, administration was searching for a way to trim Pacific\u2019s water bill. The solution? Construct a 150,000-gallon water tower on Pacific grounds. Seizing an opportunity to create something beautiful, leadership thought beyond this simple budget fix and instead aimed to construct something unprecedented to the Stockton area. They commissioned the help of architects Howard G. Bissell and Glen H. Mortensen to design what became Burns Tower, a functional building built around the campus water tower.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">#2. Burns Tower is a working bell tower\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents of Stockton know the hourly chimes and twice-daily songs well. Construction plans included installation of 122 miniature bell units of bronze bell metal, including 61 Flemish bells and 61 harp bells. Since the tower\u2019s completion in 1963, these bells have been heard marking the top of every hour and playing a selected tune at 12:30 p.m. as well as 11 p.m. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">#3. Burns Tower was the tallest structure in Stockton for three decades<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"763\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-3.png?resize=1024%2C763&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-3.png?resize=1024%2C763&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-3.png?resize=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-3.png?resize=768%2C572&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-3.png?resize=400%2C298&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-3.png?w=1036&amp;ssl=1 1036w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Aerial view of campus from the east, circa 1964<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Burns Tower stood taller than any other structure in Stockton until the 1990s (today, the tallest building is the county courthouse). Its spires climb to 178-feet tall, and rising above those once stood a 90-foot-tall radio antenna.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">#4. You heard us\u2014Burns Tower hosted an entire radio station <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, Burns Tower was home to the <em>first <\/em>educational stereophonic transmitter west of the Rocky Mountains.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the ninth floor of Burns Tower lives the radio room, once occupied by the radio station KCVN. This station could transmit at a range reaching as far as Sacramento and Tracy. At the time, that was a truly historic achievement. The transmitter was eventually moved to Mount Oso in Stanislaus County, extending the station\u2019s reach significantly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Any NPR listeners out there? An entire week of \u201cAll Things Considered\u201d was once broadcast from Burns Tower during the presidential debates held in San Francisco in the 1976.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"998\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-1.png?resize=960%2C998&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-1.png?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-1.png?resize=289%2C300&amp;ssl=1 289w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-1.png?resize=768%2C798&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-1.png?resize=400%2C416&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>An excerpt from Pacific Review, 1976.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">#5. Priceless university archival documents were discovered in the basement\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Safe-Artifacts.jpg?resize=750%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Safe-Artifacts.jpg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Safe-Artifacts.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacific.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Safe-Artifacts.jpg?resize=400%2C267&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Just a few years ago during renovations of Burns Tower, Pacific staff came across a locked metal safe in the basement. It took the help of the local fire station, who carefully used the \u201cjaws of life\u201d to unlock its contents. An astonishing discovery was made\u2014University of the Pacific\u2019s original charter document, along with journals dating back to the 1850s, an 1862 diploma printed on animal skin and other artifacts detailing the university\u2019s beginning were inside. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A feat of architectural design, Burns Tower has stood proudly at the eastern end of Pacific\u2019s Stockton campus for over 60 years. The iconic landmark is widely known for impressive Gothic spires and luminous stained glass\u2014but there&#8217;s a rich and fascinating story inside its walls.&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cIn the dedication of Robert E. 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