Sometimes I come across something on eBay that is simply irresistible, just absolute catnip. Thus I have for you today a spectacular advertisement from the 1939 volume of the Engineering News-Record, a construction industry publication that still exists:
That’s a really nice image of the then brand new north stands of the old stadium. I had a devil of a time back in 2015 figuring out when exactly they were built and there are very few pictures of them before the big south stands were constructed in 1938. Here’s the other one that I know of:
The bench seats were replaced at some point but those stands lasted until 2015 so we really got our money’s worth.
Wolmanizing involves just a teeny little bit of arsenic, by the way, but probably fine as long as you didn’t eat any of the wood.
Bonus: 
This is fascinating, so I had to go do some Googling. I found this:
https://www.conradfp.com/pressure-treatment-cca.php
The best part is the line that says, “For residential and other applications requiring a next-generation preservative, specify Wolmanized Outdoor Wood.”
Something that existed before 1939 is “next-generation?” Good to know.
I’ll venture that the Fieldhouse was *not* built with Wolmanized lumber.
Combine that with woeful site prep and subsequent subsidence, ending with its condemnation and demolition.
My Dad ran a retail lumber yard in Louisiana where I worked many a summer during high school and my first years at Rice. Very familiar with Wolmanized lumber.
Looking at this closely, I think the image in the ad is the south grandstand, since that it the press box at the top, which was on the South side. You can also look towards the end zone and see seating curving in the end zone which would have been on the west end because the east end is where the fieldhouse was slowly sinking into the soils.
It’s like a Britney Spears song: “Wolmanizer, wolmanizer, you’re a, you’re a wolmanizer…”