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UT Tower
The Main Building in the foreground, c. 1980

Full general information
Architectural way	Beaux-Arts
Location	110 Inner Campus Drive, Austin, Texas U.s.
Coordinates	30°17′x″N 97°44′21″W / thirty.2861°N 97.7393°W / 30.2861; -97.7393 Coordinates: 30°17′10″Due north 97°44′21″W / xxx.2861°Northward 97.7393°W / thirty.2861; -97.7393
Structure started	1934
Completed	1937
Summit
Roof	307 ft (94 m)
Technical details
Floor count	27
Design and construction
Builder	Paul Philippe Cret

The Primary Edifice (known colloquially as The Tower) is a structure at the center of the University of Texas at Austin campus in Downtown Austin, Texas, Us. The Master Building'due south 307-foot (94 m) tower has 27 floors^[1] ^[2] ^[3] and is ane of the most recognizable symbols of the academy and the urban center.^{[ citation needed ]}

History [edit]

1882–1934 [edit]

The university's Old Main Building in a 1903 photo.

Main Building, University of Texas, Austin, Texas (postcard, circa 1905)

The Main Building in 2019

The crowded stacks at the Life Science Library.

The old Victorian-Gothic Principal Building served as the central point of the campus's forty-acre site, and was used for nearly all purposes get-go in 1882. Still, past the 1930s, discussions arose about the need for new library space, and the Main Building was razed in 1934 over the objections of many students and faculty. All that remains of the Old Main Building are its erstwhile chinkle bells (called the Burleson Bells^[four]), which are now exhibited as role of a permanent display exterior the university'south Bass Concert Hall. The mod-solar day Chief Building and Tower were constructed in its place.^{[ citation needed ]}

1935–present [edit]

Originally, the university planned to use the Tower as a library space, using a dumbwaiter organisation to behave books from the upper floors to the students requesting them in the circulation room on a lower floor. Library employees were stationed on every other floor; students filled out paper volume-request slips, which were sent upstairs past a pneumatic tube. The books were sent down to the students using an xviii-story dumbwaiter. This proved ineffective, and the dumbwaiter is no longer used for that purpose. The building now mainly contains administrative offices, though it does still house a three-flooring life sciences library and the Miriam Lutcher Stark Library of early and significant editions of English Romanticist works. Two separate sets of elevators serve the building; one in the front, ane in back. In the floors above the stacks and beneath a few top-floor offices, several floors comprise the university herbarium (Plant Resource Center). U.South. Census data are compiled and analyzed on some of these floors. Lastly, two secure elevators provide admission to all 27 floors of the Belfry while an lift on the 27th flooring provides access to the 28th-flooring Observation Deck. There is also a book lift in the stacks that serves floors two through 17.

The 307-foot (94 one thousand) tower was designed by Paul Philippe Cret. Completed in 1937, the Principal Building is located in the middle of campus. At the top of the Tower is a carillon of 56 bells, the largest in Texas. The carillon is played daily.

During World War Two, an air raid siren built by the main communications engineer for the Academy, Jack Maguire, was placed on height of the Tower to notify Austin residents of incoming air attacks. As there was never an air set on on the city, this siren was merely tested and never truly used. The decommissioned siren was superseded by four electronic warning sirens that were installed in early 2007.^[five]

1966 massacre [edit]

On August 1, 1966, Charles Joseph Whitman, an architectural engineering educatee at the university, barricaded himself in the ascertainment deck of the tower of the Principal Building with a scoped Remington 700 deer burglarize and various other weapons. In a 96-minute standoff, Whitman killed xiv people and wounded 32 more (including one who died 35 years later of his wounds).^{[ commendation needed ]} Two police officers and a deputized manager from the co-op from across the mall climbed to the top of the belfry and shot him to death.

Suicide site [edit]

Post-obit the Whitman incident, the observation deck was temporarily airtight from Baronial 1966 until June 1967 ^[6] and and then closed over again in 1974 following nine suicide jumps.^[7]

On Nov 11, 1998, the Board of Regents of the UT system canonical the recommendation of Student Association leaders and of then-president Larry Faulkner to reopen the Tower'southward observation deck to visitors.^[8] Later on the installation of security and safety measures, the ascertainment deck reopened to the public in 1999.^[9] ^[ten]

Additionally, the observation deck was closed in 2002 and 2003, due to the September eleven attacks, and was reopened in 2004 with added security.

Tower Girl [edit]

A female peregrine falcon nicknamed Tower Daughter showtime attempted nesting on top of the tower in 2018. The University of Texas Biodiversity Center placed a webcam in order to monitor her, every bit a successful nesting attempt would aggrandize the documented breeding range of the species in North America.^[11]

Lighting [edit]

The belfry of the Master Building illuminated orange for the 2012 Fall Commencement. The number 12 in lights refers to the graduating class of 2012.

The Tower ordinarily appears illuminated in white low-cal in the evening, only is lit in various colour schemes for special occasions, including athletic victories and academic accomplishments. To mark more somber events, such as the passing of a onetime president of the university, the Tower remains darkened with a soft grey glow through the night.

Carl J. Eckhardt Jr., caput of the Physical Plant in 1931, supervised the structure of the Master Edifice Belfry. Eckhardt devised a lighting system to take advantage of its commanding architecture to announce university achievements. Beginning in 1937, orange lights were used to symbolize important events at the university; by 1947, standard guidelines for using the orange lights were created, and these have been updated since. Today at that place are many dissimilar options for lighting, including a darkened tower to signify solemn occasions. An orangish tower with part windows lit to form the numeral "1" is used for national championships in NCAA sporting events.^[12]

During Gone To Texas (welcoming new students to campus) and commencement ceremonies, the Tower windows are lit upwards to form the year (e.g. a 12 for the Class of 2012) of the class being honored.

See likewise [edit]

History of the University of Texas at Austin

References [edit]

^ "History of the UT Tower". UT Tower. The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved Apr 21, 2019.
^ Seale, Avrel. "What'due south the Story Behind the Tower?". UT NEWS. The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
^ Nicar, Jim. "How "Texan" is the UT Tower?". The UT History Corner. Wordpress.com. Retrieved April 21, 2019.
^ The Carillon Archived Nov 29, 2005, at the Wayback Machine The University of Texas. Accessed March 29, 2006.
^ Tower Sounds Air Raid, The Daily Texan November 17, 1942., archived from the original on December 2, 2005, retrieved January xix, 2006
^ Colloff, Pamela. "The Reckoning" Texas Monthly. March 2016
^ Beach, Patrick. "Drawn to the edge", Austin American-Statesman, September 12, 1999. Accessed Nov 15, 2009.
^ Board of Regents Meeting Minutes Archived February 22, 2005, at the Wayback Machine November 1998. Accessed March 29, 2006.
^ Tower Tours Offer Glimpse of UT History^{[ permanent dead link ]} The Daily Texan. Baronial 10, 2004 Accessed March 29, 2006.
^ Tower Tours Schedule Fall 2005 Archived Feb 10, 2006, at the Wayback Car The Texas Union. Accessed December one, 2005.
^ Falcon Cam
^ University approves new policy for lighting UT Tower Archived Oct 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine On Campus. Accessed Dec 1, 2005.