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* The tall Murchison Tower is the most dominant landmark on the campus, designed, as many other buildings on campus, by O ' Neil Ford, who also designed San Antonio Landmark the Tower of the Americas a few years later based on this design.

It was previously the highest point in San Antonio.

The tower is now lit at night ( excepting evenings when the lighting interferes with on-campus astronomical observances ), a tradition begun on September 22, 2002 to commemorate Trinity's 60th anniversary in San Antonio.