the UT Austin Tower—or, simply, the Tower—debuted in 1937 as a replacement for the school’s original Main Building, a Victorian-Gothic pile completed in the early 1880s and demolished in 1934.

UT President Jay Hartzell presented a proposal ... The tower, part of the Main Building, was completed in 1937 as a 27-story library ― at the time, it was the largest building in Austin, beating ...

For the last three decades, it has been the main learning facility ... who had been teaching students in the building for over two decades, along with another retired UT professor, Kathy Armenta ...

After all, it was a scary-looking building in the darkness ... someone tried to find him. Old Main is gone now, but this ghost story lives on thanks to UT historian Jim Nicar, who provides a ...

“You’re going to raze a building down that does have some historical value for football.” Kim Barker, preservation planner for UT, said that the decision to relocate the program was made ...