by Susan Foster The Velhagen Clock, located for over 50 years at 505 State Avenue in Alamosa, might be called a “horologe”: an obsolete term for a timepiece that is antiquated yet timeless. Alamosa’s historic, 18-foot-high, two-ton, Velhagen Clock is a five-foot diameter, two-faced structure with cast iron gingerbread ornamentation which was built by the infamous Seth Thomas (later renamed Thomaston) of Wolcott, Connecticut. Like a grave marker, the impression left by this horologe can be seen in the sidewalk near the southwest corner of Main and State Streets. When the clock was made and when it arrived in Alamosa ...