LEWISTON – Calling it a piece of artwork in motion, city officials unveiled a rare E. Howard clock at City Hall Thursday.

A group of 40 were on hand as Mayor Lionel Guay thanked the community, the Lewiston Youth Advisory Council and city staff for their efforts in refurbishing the clock.

“This is a vision of what can be done in Lewiston when we begin and work together,” Guay said.

Clockmaker Edward Howard built the clock in 1891. It sat in the City Hall tower until November 2001, when the Balzer Family Clockworks removed it for repairs and maintenance. The company returned it in June 2002. The clock has sat in the entrance to the third-floor Community Development Department ever since.

The Lewiston Youth Advisory Council raised money last summer to build the case and get the clock moved into its new home, on the landing between City Hall’s second and third floors.

A pipe-and-gear assembly connects the clock’s mechanism to the faces in the tower, and a hole in the floor of the landing allows its 15-foot pendulum to swing freely from the ceiling above the Pine Street entrance.

The Five County Credit Union donated a podium audio display, which was installed Thursday. It plays a brief history of the clock at the push of a button.