List of early skyscrapers
This list of early skyscrapers details a range of tall, commercial buildings built between 1880 and the 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 (1880–1899)
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, 150 Nassau Street, Times Building
California
- Central Tower
- Old Chronicle Building
Illinois
- Fisher Building
- Home Insurance Building
- Manhattan Building
- Marquette Building
- Marshall Field and Company Building
- Masonic Temple
- Monadnock Building
- New York Life Insurance Building
- Old Colony Building
- Rand McNally Building
- Reliance Building
- Rookery Building
- Tacoma Building
Massachusetts
- 27 State St.
- 62 Boylston Street
- Ames Building
- Fiske Building
- Haddon Hall
- Winthrop Building
New York City
- American Tract Society Building
- 56 Pine Street
- American Surety Building
- Bayard–Condict Building
- Bowling Green Offices Building
- Empire Building
- Gillender Building
- Hotel Chelsea
- Hotel Gerard
- Manhattan Life Insurance Building
- New York Times Building
- New York Tribune Building
- New York World Building
- Osborne Apartments
- Park Row Building
- St. Paul Building
- Temple Court Building
- The Ansonia
Rochester
Buffalo
- Dun Building, Buffalo
- Ellicott Square Building
- Guaranty Building
Albany
- 100 State Street, Albany
Utah
- Boston Building, Salt Lake City
- First Security Building, Salt Lake City
- Joseph Smith Memorial Building
- Judge Building
- Kearns Building
- Newhouse Building (Salt Lake City)
Washington D.C.
Elsewhere in the world
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The APA "Australia" Building in Melbourne, which stood from 1889 to 1980. It was Australia's tallest building until 1912.
Japan
- Ryounkaku
The "First Great Age" (1900–19)
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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
- 121 Atlantic Place
- American National Bank Building (Pensacola, Florida)
- Dyal–Upchurch Building
- Heard National Bank Building, Jacksonville
- Florida Life Building
Illinois
- Brooks Building
- Chicago Building
- Continental Illinois
- Hotel Aurora (Aurora, Illinois)
- Peoples Gas Building
- Renaissance Blackstone Hotel
- Roanoke Building
- Santa Fe Building
Massachusetts
- 1200 Main Street Springfield
- Custom House Tower
- Hotel Kimball Springfield
New York City
- 1 Wall Street Court
- 14 Wall Street
- 90 West Street
- Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company Building
- Broad Exchange Building
- Broadway–Chambers Building
- Bush Tower
- City Investing Building
- Consolidated Edison Building
- Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank Building
- Equitable Building
- Flatiron Building
- Germania Life Insurance Company Building
- Hudson Terminal
- Liberty Tower
- Manhattan Municipal Building
- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower
- One Times Square
- Singer Building
- Trinity and United States Realty Buildings
- Whitehall Building
- Woolworth Building
Syracuse
Buffalo
- Cathedral Place, Buffalo
- Main Seneca Building
- Verizon/AT&T Building, Buffalo
Utah
- hotel monaco salt lake city
- Walker Center
Elsewhere in the world
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Culwulla Chambers, Sydney's first skyscraper
Argentina
- Edificio Otto Wulf
- Galeria Guemes
- Archivo General de la Nacion
- Plaza Hotel Buenos Aires
- Railway Building
Australia
- Culwulla Chambers
- Dovers Building
- Trust Building
Inter-war period, boom and depression (1920–1939)
Arizona
- Heard Building
- Hotel San Carlos (Phoenix)
- Luhrs Building
- Luhrs Tower
- Orpheum Lofts
- Pioneer Hotel
- Professional Building (Phoenix, Arizona)
- Valley National Bank Building (Tucson, Arizona)
- Westward Ho (Phoenix)
California
- 140 New Montgomery
- 225 Bush Street
- 450 Sutter Street
- Bank of Italy (Fresno, California)
- El Cortez Hotel
- Helm Building, Fresno
- Hotel Californian, Fresno
- Los Angeles City Hall
- Pacific Southwest Building
- Richfield Tower
- Russ Building
- Shell Building
- Tribune Tower
Georgia
- Fourth National Bank Building
- Rhodes-Haverty Building
Illinois
- 333 North Michigan
- 35 East Wacker
- Carbide & Carbon Building
- Chicago Board of Trade Building
- Chicago Temple Building
- Civic Opera Building
- Faust Landmark
- Field Building
- LaSalle-Wacker Building
- LaSalle-Wacker Building
- Leland Tower
- London Guarantee Building
- Mather Tower
- Metropolitan Tower
- Morrison Hotel
- One North LaSalle
- Palmolive Building
- Pittsfield Building
- Powhatan Apartments
- Randolph Tower
- Rockford Trust Building
- Tribune Tower
- Trustees System Service Building
- Wrigley Building
Iowa
- Equitable Building
- Wells Fargo Building
Maine
- People's United Bank Building
- Time and Temperature Building
- Verizon Building, Bangor
Massachusetts
- Suffolk County Courthouse
- US Shoe Machinery Corporation Building
Michigan
- AT&T Michigan Headquarters
- Boji Tower
- Book Tower
- Buhl Building
- Cadillac Place
- Cadillac Tower
- David Broderick Tower
- David Stott Building
- First National Building
- Fisher Building
- Fort Shelby Hotel
- Grand Park Centre
- Guardian Building
- Industrial Building (Detroit)
- Hudson Department Store
- Macabees Building
- Penobscot Building
- United Artists Theatre Building
- Washington Boulevard Building
- Water Board Building
- Westin Book Cadillac Hotel
New Jersey
- 155 washington street
- 24 Commerce Street
- Bamberger's
- Camden City Hall
- Eleven 80
- Griffith Building
- Home Office Building
- Military Park Building
- National Newark Building
- New Jersey Bell Headquarters Building
- Prudential Headquarters#Gibraltar Building
- The Claridge Hotel
- Union County Courthouse (New Jersey)
New York City
- 1 Wall Street
- 10 East 40th Street
- 110 East 42nd Street
- 120 Wall Street
- 15 Broad Street
- 20 Exchange Place
- 20 West Street
- 21 West Street
- 26 Broadway
- 30 Rockefeller Plaza
- 32 Avenue of the Americas
- 330 West 42nd Street
- 40 Wall Street
- 500 Fifth Avenue
- 60 Hudson Street
- 70 Pine Street
- American Radiator Building
- Chanin Building
- Chrysler Building
- Cunard Building
- Daily News Building
- Empire State Building
- Fuller Building
- Helmsley Building
- Metropolitan Life North Building
- Nelson Tower
- New York Life Building
- One Grand Central Place
- Paramount Building
- Pershing Square Building
- Rockefeller Center
- The Beresford
- The Century
- The Eldorado
- The Majestic
- The Pierre
- The San Remo
- The Sherry-Netherland
- Verizon Building
- Waldorf Astoria
- Wall and Hanover Building
- Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower
- Wyndham New Yorker Hotel
Buffalo
- 42 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo
- Buffalo Central Terminal
- Buffalo City Hall
- Convention Tower, Buffalo
- Electric Tower
- Liberty Building
- Rand Building
Syracuse
- Hills Building, Syracuse
- Niagara Mohawk Building
- State Tower Building
Albany
- 69 State Street, Albany
- 90 State Street, Albany
- Alfred E. Smith Building
- Home Savings Bank Building
New Rochelle
Ohio
- AT&T Huron Road Building
- Carew Tower Complex
- Cincinnati American Building
- Fenn Tower
- FirstMerit Tower
- Guardian Bank Building
- Keith Building
- LeVeque Tower
- National City Bank Building
- Parkview Apartments (Cleveland)
- Standard Building
- Superior Building
- Terminal Tower
- The 925 Building
Oklahoma
- 320 South Boston Building
- City Place Tower (Oklahoma City)
- First National Center
- Philtower Building
Tennessee
- 88 Union Center Memphis
- Andrew Johnson Building
- Crosstown Concourse
- Exchange Building (Memphis)
- Lincoln American Tower
- Madison Hotel (Memphis, Tennessee)
- Number 10 Main Memphis
- Sterchi Lofts, Knoxville
- Sterick Building
- Tennessee Theatre
- The Holston
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
- Kavanagh Building
- Palacio Barolo
Italy
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The Torrione INA in Brescia, Italy's first skyscraper.
Milan
- Palazzo e Torre Rasini
- Torre Snia Viscosa
- Palazzo Locatelli
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See also
- List of skyscrapers
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