The Fuller Memorial Bell Tower, designed by Guy Lowell in 1923, utilized hybrid assemblies that combined steel with brick, granite, and timber. Eighty years later, chronic water penetration, masonry failure, and steel corrosion had contributed to the significant deterioration of this campus icon.

The tower needed to be carefully disassebled and reassembled, including the demolition of the steel frame and brick infill/cladding, the substitution of new carved granite blocks in place of fractured stones with old memorial inscriptions, and the substitution of fiberglass urns and column shafts in place of earlier wooden pieces. Today, the reconstructed tower conforms exactly to the appearance and dimensions of the original.