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Verdin Company

American bell foundry and clock maker

The Verdin Company is a manufacturer of bronze bells, clocks and towers based in Cincinnati, Ohio in the United States. The company has been making, restoring, and repairing bells for use in bell and clock towers, peals, chimes, and carillons since 1842. The company also manufactures electronic carillons, street clocks, glockenspiels, and monuments.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1842Founded1
  • Industrybellfounding1
  • HeadquartersCincinnati1

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The Verdin Company is a manufacturer of bronze bells, clocks and towers based in Cincinnati, Ohio in the United States. The company has been making, restoring, and repairing bells for use in bell and clock towers, peals, chimes, and carillons since 1842. The company also manufactures electronic carillons, street clocks, glockenspiels, and monuments. There is now an organ division serving churches and other institutions combining organ and bell music.2

The story

The Verdin Company began in 1842 when brothers Francis de Sales and Michael Verdin installed the first tower clock in the United States at Old St. Mary's Church in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Verdin Company has been a family business for six generations. Bob Verdin, a member of the sixth generation, is currently the company's CEO.

In 2001 the company received a contract from the state of Ohio to cast a bell for each county in the state to celebrate the state's 2003 bicentennial. The bells were cast in a trailer-mounted foundry, the only mobile bell foundry in the world. Prior to that time the company had not generally cast its own bells, instead contracting with the Dutch foundry Petit & Fritsen.

The company's pipe organ division was created in 2016.

The former church complex that now serves as the company's headquarters was begun in 1848 as St. Paul's Church, the seventh German Catholic church in Cincinnati. It was heavily remodeled by Samuel Hannaford after a fire in 1899. The building was deconsecrated in 1975 and acquired by the Verdin Company in 1981.

From Wikipedia’s article on The Verdin Company, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

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