{"id":31844,"date":"2025-11-02T11:01:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T11:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/31844\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T11:01:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T11:01:18","slug":"consider-the-furniture-ut-austin-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/31844\/","title":{"rendered":"Consider the Furniture &#8211; UT Austin News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s in beautiful shape,\u201d Barker says of the discovered case. She emailed her photo of it to President Jim Davis, whose interest in UT history is particularly keen, and asked, \u201cAny chance you\u2019d like it for your office?\u00a0It\u2019d be thrilling to return it to use in Main Building, particularly on the fourth floor?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His response was an enthusiastic yes, in the right location.<\/p>\n<p>Getting the massive display case back to the fourth floor could be a challenge, since it doesn\u2019t fit in the elevator and so would have to be maneuvered up four flights of stairs.<\/p>\n<p>UT Surplus has also recently repatriated a table and set of chairs that were refinished and reupholstered for use in the Littlefield House.<\/p>\n<p>There are many other pieces of original furniture scattered throughout the building and within its 27-floor Tower, and not all of them require searching. Two such pieces are visible the moment one enters the main corridor on the ground floor: two standing-height tables against the walls that hearken to an age when the admissions, registrar\u2019s and bursar\u2019s offices, long housed there, ran on pen and paper.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-53771 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Ground-floor-table-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"834\" height=\"608\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So, the next time you\u2019re in the Main Building and waiting on a bench, remember: Consider the furniture. That bench or chair you\u2019re sitting on could well be nearly a century old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s in beautiful shape,\u201d Barker says of the discovered case. She emailed her photo of it to President&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1086,20841,13180,20842],"class_list":["post-31844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-campus","tag-our-tower","tag-tower","tag-ut-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}