List of early skyscrapers
This list of early skyscrapers details a range of tall, commercial buildings built between 1884 and 1930s, predominantly in the U.S. cities of New York and Chicago but also across the rest of the U.S. and in many other parts of the world.
The first skyscrapers 1880–99
New York's "Newspaper Row", showing the first skyscrapers built in the late 19th century: (l to r) World Building, City Hall, Sun Building (obscured), Tribune Building, American Tract Society, Times Building
California
- Central Tower
- Old Chronicle Building
Illinois
- Home Insurance Building
- Tacoma Building
- Rand McNally Building
- Rookery Building
- Monadnock Building
- Masonic Temple
- New York Life Insurance Building
- Fisher Building
- Manhattan Building
- Marquette Building
- Marshall Field and Company Building
- Old Colony Building
- Reliance Building
Massachusetts
- Ames Building
- Winthrop Building
- Fiske Building
- Haddon Hall
- 62 Boylston Street
- 27 State St.
New York
- New York World Building
- New York Tribune Building
- American Tract Society
- New York Times Building
- Bayard–Condict Building
- Empire Building (Manhattan)
- 56 Pine Street
- Hotel Chelsea
- Hotel Gerard
- Osborne Apartments
- The Ansonia
- Temple Court Building and Annex
- Manhattan Life Insurance Building
- Park Row Building
- Wilder Building
- Guaranty Building
- Dun Building, Buffalo
- Ellicott Square Building
- 100 State Street Albany
Utah
- Joseph Smith Memorial Building
- First Security Building Salt Lake City
- Kearns Building
- Judge Building
- Boston Building Salt Lake City
- Newhouse Building (Salt Lake City)
Washington D.C.
Elsewhere in the world
The APA "Australia" Building in Melbourne, which stood from 1889 to 1980. It was Australia's tallest building until 1912.
The "First Great Age" (1900–19)
The Woolworth Building overlooking the Old Post Office and City Hall Park, with the peaks of the Singer Tower and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower just visible (l)
Florida
- Dyal–Upchurch Building
- 121 Atlantic Place
- American National Bank Building (Pensacola, Florida)
- Florida Life Building
- Heard National Bank Building, Jacksonville
Illinois
- Brooks Building
- Chicago Building
- Peoples Gas Building
- Santa Fe Building
- Continental Illinois
- Renaissance Blackstone Hotel
- Roanoke Building
- Hotel Aurora (Aurora, Illinois)
Massachusetts
- Custom House Tower
- 1200 Main Street Springfield
- Hotel Kimball Springfield
Michigan
- Ford Building
- Chrysler House
- David Whitney Building
- Book Building Detroit
- Marquette Building
- Penobscot Annex
- Vinton Building
- Michigan Central Station
- Kales Building
- Penobscot Building Annex
- AT&T Michigan Headquarters
New York
- Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company Building
- Broad Exchange Building
- Flatiron Building
- Equitable Building
- Singer Building
- City Investing Building
- Manhattan Municipal Building
- 1 Wall Street Court
- Former Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank building
- Liberty Tower (Manhattan)
- 90 West Street
- Germania Life Insurance Company Building
- 14 Wall Street
- Broadway–Chambers Building
- Whitehall Building
- Bush Tower
- Consolidated Edison Building
- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower
- Woolworth Building
- Kodak Tower
- Verizon/AT&T Building, Buffalo
- Cathedral Place, Buffalo
- Main Seneca Building
Utah
- Walker Center
- hotel monaco salt lake city
Elsewhere in the world
Culwulla Chambers, Sydney's first skyscraper
Argentina
- Plaza Hotel Buenos Aires
- Railway Building
- Archivo General de la Nacion
- Edificio Otto Wulf
- Galeria Guemes
Australia
- Culwulla Chambers
- Dovers Building
- Trust Building
Inter-war period, boom and depression: 1920–1939
Arizona
- Heard Building
- Luhrs Building
- Hotel San Carlos (Phoenix)
- Westward Ho (Phoenix)
- Luhrs Tower
- Orpheum Lofts
- Professional Building (Phoenix, Arizona)
- Valley National Bank Building (Tucson, Arizona)
- Pioneer Hotel
California
- 140 New Montgomery
- Russ Building
- Shell Building
- 450 Sutter Street
- Bank of Italy (Fresno, California)
- 225 Bush Street
- Los Angeles City Hall
- Pacific Southwest Building
- Richfield Tower
- Tribune Tower
- El Cortez Hotel
- Hotel Californian, Fresno
- Helm Building, Fresno
Georgia
- Rhodes-Haverty Building
- Fourth National Bank Building
Illinois
- Wrigley Building
- Metropolitan Tower
- Pittsfield Building
- Tribune Tower
- Randolph Tower
- Chicago Board of Trade Building
- Trustees System Service Building
- Civic Opera Building
- Morrison Hotel
- LaSalle-Wacker Building
- Palmolive Building
- One North LaSalle
- 333 North Michigan
- 35 East Wacker
- Carbide & Carbon Building
- London Guarantee Building
- Mather Tower
- Powhatan Apartments
- Chicago Temple Building
- LaSalle-Wacker Building
- Field Building
- Leland Tower
- Faust Landmark
- Rockford Trust Building
Iowa
- Wells Fargo Building
- Equitable Building
Maine
- Time and Temperature Building
- People's United Bank Building
- Verizon Building, Bangor
Massachusetts
- US Shoe Machinery Corporation Building
- Suffolk County Courthouse
Michigan
- Cadillac Place
- Fisher Building
- Guardian Building
- Book Tower
- Penobscot Building
- Cadillac Tower
- David Stott Building
- David Broderick Tower
- First National Building
- Westin Book Cadillac Hotel
- Buhl Building
- Hudson Department Store
- Fort Shelby Hotel
- AT&T Michigan Headquarters
- Macabees Building
- Industrial Building (Detroit)
- Water Board Building
- Washington Boulevard Building
- United Artists Theatre Building
- Grand Park Centre
- Boji Tower
New Jersey
- Bamberger's
- National Newark Building
- Eleven 80
- Camden City Hall
- 24 Commerce Street
- 155 washington street
- Prudential Headquarters#Gibraltar Building
- Griffith Building
- Home Office Building
- New Jersey Bell Headquarters Building
- Military Park Building
- The Claridge Hotel
- Union County Courthouse (New Jersey)
New York
- Paramount Building
- 21 West Street
- Verizon Building
- Wall and Hanover Building
- American Radiator Building
- New York Life Building
- 21 West Street
- Chanin Building
- Fuller Building
- Helmsley Building
- The Beresford
- 10 East 40th Street
- The Sherry-Netherland
- 15 Broad Street
- 26 Broadway
- The Pierre
- Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower
- 120 Wall Street
- Wyndham New Yorker Hotel
- Daily News Building
- The Century
- The Majestic
- The San Remo
- The Eldorado
- Waldorf Astoria
- Nelson Tower
- Lincoln Building
- Bank of Manhattan Trust Building
- City Bank-Farmers Trust Company Building
- 70 Pine Street
- 1 Wall Street
- 60 Hudson Street
- 500 Fifth Avenue
- General Electric Building
- 330 West 42nd Street
- Metropolitan Life North Building
- Chrysler Building
- Empire State Building
- Rockefeller Center
- Rand Building
- Liberty Building
- Times Square Building
- Buffalo City Hall
- Niagara Mohawk Building
- Alfred E. Smith Building
- Electric Tower
- Buffalo Central Terminal
- 42 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo
- Convention Tower, Buffalo
- Sibley's, Lindsay and Curr Building
- State Tower Building
- Hills Building, Syracuse
- Home Savings Bank Building
- 69 State Street, Albany
- 90 State Street, Albany
- 271 North Avenue
Ohio
- Terminal Tower
- AT&T Huron Road Building
- Carew Tower Complex
- LeVeque Tower
- National City Bank Building
- FirstMerit Tower
- Standard Building
- The 925 Building
- Keith Building
- Superior Building
- Fenn Tower
- Guardian Bank Building
- Parkview Apartments (Cleveland)
- Cincinnati American Building
Oklahoma
- First National Center
- City Place Tower (Oklahoma City)
- 320 South Boston Building
- Philtower Building
Tennessee
- Sterick Building
- Andrew Johnson Building
- The Holston
- Tennessee Theatre
- Sterchi Lofts, Knoxville
- Lincoln American Tower
- Exchange Building (Memphis)
- Madison Hotel (Memphis, Tennessee)
- Number 10 Main Memphis
- Crosstown Concourse
- 88 Union Center Memphis
Wisconsin
- AT&T Center (Milwaukee)
- City Center at 735
- Cudahy Tower
- Hilton Milwaukee City Center
- Wells Building
- Wisconsin Gas Building
- Wisconsin Tower
Elsewhere in the world
Argentina
- Palacio Barolo
- Kavanagh Building
Italy
The Torrione INA in Brescia, Italy's first skyscraper.
Milan
- Torre Snia Viscosa
- Palazzo e Torre Rasini
- Palazzo Locatelli
See also
- List of skyscrapers
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