The University of Texas Tower

The University of Texas Tower. 110 Inner Campus Drive, Austin, Texas. Built from 1934-1937.

The Main Building (more commonly called The Tower) was originally built to serve as a library space with an eighteen-story dumbwaiter bringing book requests from floor to floor. This proved to be a very inefficient system and the dumbwaiter was later replaced with network and computer cabling. The building is now mainly administrative offices, but it holds onto its original intentions by housing a three-floor life sciences library and the Miriam Lutcher Stark Library of English Romanticist works.