UT’s Heritage Society hosted a celebration on Monday in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Tower. In the 1930s, UT hired an architect from the University of Pennsylvania named Paul Cret to design and construct a long-term main building on campus. Cret decided he wanted a library to be the focal point of the campus, but due to the Great Depression he had to build the main building in parts. The main building was formerly established on February 27, 1937. Today’s Life Science library was the original library on campus, housing all the books for students and faculty. In 1963, the Undergraduate Library and Academic Center was created followed by the Perry-Castañeda library in 1977 after the number of books and students increased on campus.
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