The Tallest Building in Every State

• City: Burlington
• Height: 124 feet
• Floors: 11
• Building Type: Residential Apartments
• Year Completed: 1971

Since its completion, the building has been a great home for countless disabled and elderly individuals.

• City: Cheyenne
• Height: 148 feet
• Floors: 11
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1990

This may be the tallest in the state, but eleven stories doesn't seem as impressive compared to the rocky cliffs overlooking the city.

• City: Sioux Falls
• Height: 174 feet
• Floors: 11
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1986

This office space defaulted to the number one spot after the demolition of a 200-foot feed tower which previously held the title. Only in South Dakota.

• City: Lewiston
• Height: 220 feet
• Floors: 3
• Building Type: Event Center (former church)
• Year Completed: 1890

Previously a Catholic church, the building was renovated and extended to its present height in the past few decades. It's primarily utilized now as a wedding venue.

• City: Bismarck
• Height: 242 feet
• Floors: 19
• Building Type: Governmental Offices
• Year Completed: 1934

Beyond the novelty of its height, the state capitol attracts all kinds of tourists each year with the parks and museum exhibits which surround it. 

• City: Billings
• Height: 272 feet
• Floors: 20
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1985

The space is mostly used as an office environment, but with the added bonus of the best view besides the mountains. 

• City: Manchester
• Height: 275 feet
• Floors: 20
• Building Type: Commercial & Governmental Offices
• Year Completed: 1992

The towering brick and limestone stand taller than any other United States building north of Massachusetts.

• City: Charleston
• Height: 293 feet
• Floors: 4
• Building Type: Governmental Offices
• Year Completed: 1932

Another government building makes the state record, but the height comes mostly from its gilded dome. 

• City: Anchorage
• Height: 296 feet
• Floors: 22
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1983

Though the main tower from which this building gets its height is just office space for the namesake company, a beautiful atrium connects it to a shorter counterpart. This middle space house public events for the local residents. 

• City: Boise
• Height: 323 feet
• Floors: 18
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 2014

The space this tower occupies sat vacant for decades after the demolition of the previous tenant, the Overland Hotel. 

• City: Wichita
• Height: 325 feet
• Floors: 22
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1989

Here's another office space, but the residents of this one range from lawyers to agents of the Secret Service and the FBI.

• City: Biloxi
• Height: 347 feet
• Floors: 32
• Building Type: Casino & Hotel
• Year Completed: 1999

• City: Columbia
• Height: 349 feet
• Floors: 26
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1987

Though it's taken on a few different names since its completion in 1987, this building has provided a weekly work space for about a thousand people. 

• City: Albuquerque
• Height: 351 feet
• Floors: 22
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1990

Not only is this the tallest building in the state, its thermal energy storage system also makes it one of the most energy efficient. 

• City: Wilmington
• Height: 360 feet
• Floors: 23
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1988

Depending on the weather, employees on the top few floors get a clear view of the Philadelphia skyline, miles away. 

• City: Salt Lake City
• Height: 422 feet
• Floors: 26
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1998

This postmodern piece of architecture has shift hands a few time, but it has proudly worn the Wells Fargo sign for a few decades.  

• City: Providence
• Height: 428 feet
• Floors: 26
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1927

Locals call it the Superman Building for its resemblance to the workplace of his alter ego, Clark Kent. 

• City: Honolulu
• Height: 429 feet
• Floors: 30
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1996

Thirty stories offer oceanfront views to all the First Hawaiian Bank central office employees. 

• City: Phoenix
• Height: 483 feet
• Floors: 40
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1972

The 39th floor used to be dedicated as an observatory, but since some renovations in recent years, only the Chase employees have access to this unique view across Phoenix and beyond. 

• City: Virginia Beach
• Height: 508 feet
• Floors: 38
• Building Type: Hotel & Residential Apartments
• Year Completed: 2007

This gorgeous, beachfront hotel offers a luxurious stay, but at a price. The cheapest rooms start at $250 a night.

• City: Baltimore
• Height: 529 feet
• Floors: 40
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1972

The method of this building's construction was experimental at the time, but gain in popularity after the success of this tall Baltimore resident.  

• City: Hartford
• Height: 535 feet
• Floors: 38
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1980

City Place just barely broke the record, beating the previous owner of the 'highest' honor, Travelers Tower, by a measly two meters. 

• City: Little Rock
• Height: 546 feet
• Floors: 40
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1986

Unlike the case in Connecticut, Simmons Tower outstretched its closest contender, and next door neighbor, by nearly a hundred feet. Both are occupied by bank headquarters, so we know where the money is in Arkansas. 

• City: Portland
• Height: 546 feet
• Floors: 41
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1972

It may be tall, but that's about it. Around the time of the building's completion, Ivan Doig described it in the New York Times as "huge and sleek and featureless."

• City: Louisville
• Height: 549 feet
• Floors: 35
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1993

This dome-topped sky scraper lights up the Louisville skyline, often with changing colored lights meant to match the season. 

• City: Milwaukee
• Height: 601 feet
• Floors: 42
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1973

This tower if functional for more than just people; the owners installed a habitat box for peregrine falcons as an environmental preservation measure. 

• City: Nashville
• Height: 617 feet
• Floors: 33
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1994

Apart from it's height, the cat-ear antenna towers on either side make it easy to pick out in the Nashville skyline. 

• City: Kansas City
• Height: 624 feet
• Floors: 42
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1988

Here's another building that brings a bit of color to the sky to correlate with the season, though most of the year it's shinning out in red, white, and blue.  

• City: Des Moines
• Height: 630 feet
• Floors: 45
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1991

The brown point of the top was meant to be the same sea green as the Statue of Liberty, but without New York's salty sea air, the Des Moines copper didn't oxidize the same way. 

• City: Omaha
• Height: 634 feet
• Floors: 45
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 2002

This monstrous tower out did the previous Omaha record holder for this honor by fifteen stories. How's that for competition? Speaking of, the building also hosts annual race up it's forty-five flights of stairs. 

• City: Paradise
• Height: 642 feet
• Floors: 50
• Building Type: Casino & Hotel
• Year Completed: 2007

It might not be the tallest structure in the state, since Nevada is home to Stratosphere Tower, the tallest observation tower in the country. However, the Palazzo is the tallest building and, depending on who you are, can be a lot more fun. 

• City: New Orleans
• Height: 697 feet
• Floors: 51
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1972

We weren't sure this was possible, but One Shell Square is so large, it has its own zip code. 

• City: Denver
• Height: 714 feet
• Floors: 56
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1984

As if the altitude of the Colorado Rockies wasn't high enough, this building adds another sever hundred feet. Just looking at it can make you light-headed. 

• City: Mobile
• Height: 745 feet
• Floors: 35
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 2007

Multiple hurricanes affecting the area may have delayed the building's construction, none since have been able to knock it down. 

• City: Detroit
• Height: 755 feet
• Floors: 73
• Building Type: Hotel
• Year Completed: 1977

This system of seven connected skyscrapers is home to the world headquarters for General Motors as well as countless hotel guests each year. 

• City: Boston
• Height: 790 feet
• Floors: 60
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1976

This beautiful building in the Boston skyline is known just as prominently for its flaws as for its appearance. Studies have found that its windows are all at risk of following out onto pedestrians below. 

• City: Minneapolis
• Height: 792 feet
• Floors: 57
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1973

The ISD Center nearly double the size of the hitherto tallest building on the block, and since its completion, it has housed the headquarters to its fair share of cooperate giants. 

• City: Indianapolis
• Height: 811 feet
• Floors: 48
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1990

The building has changed hands a few times since its completion, but it now houses the software giant, Salesforce. All the while, it never lost its significance specific to the city. 

• City: Oklahoma City
• Height: 850 feet
• Floors: 50
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 2012

This one won't be hard for you to spot in its home skyline; the center reaches higher than anything around for mile without any close competitor. 

• City: Miami
• Height: 868 feet
• Floors: 85
• Building Type: Mixed Use (residential, hotel, & commercial)
• Year Completed: 2018

The owners of this building had to halt its construction after the economy crash in 2008, but finally got the tower to reach the top of the Florida sky. However, a few other structures being built now may soon take the title. 

• City: Charlotte
• Height: 871 feet
• Floors: 60
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1992

This giant comes just short of breaking the top thirty tallest in the country. That said, it can be seen from over thirty miles away, which is still quite the accomplishment. 

This giant comes just short of breaking the top thirty tallest in the country. That said, it can be seen from over thirty miles away, which is still quite the accomplishment. 

• City: Jersey City
• Height: 900 feet
• Floors: 79
• Building Type: Residential Apartments
• Year Completed: 2020

99 Hudson makes the the tallest residential building outside of our two taller cities, New York and Chicago. 

• City: Seattle
• Height: 943 feet
• Floors: 76
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1985

Beyond Washington, the Columbia Center held the title of tallest on the the West Coast until California came in to take it on a few occasions. 

• City: Cleveland
• Height: 947 feet
• Floors: 57
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1991

Key Tower, named for the financial firm KeyCorp, tower over every other building in the Midwest outside of Chicago. Why is it always the banks money businesses that hold this honor across the states? 

• City: Houston
• Height: 1,002 feet
• Floors: 75
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1982

The building took on some serious damage during Hurricane Ike in 2008, but has since bounced back in a big way. 1000 feet? Wow, it seems like everything really is bigger in Texas. 

• City: Atlanta
• Height: 1,023 feet
• Floors: 55
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1992

Relative to the city street, this building sits at a forty-five degree angle, stretching crookedly into the sky and just shy of the top twenty tallest in the country. 

• City: Los Angeles
• Height: 1,100 feet
• Floors: 73
• Building Type: Mixed Use (hotel & commercial)
• Year Completed: 2017

It takes a lot to be the biggest in California. To reach that title, this guy fills over seven hundred square feet of Pacific space and an entire block in LA's financial district. 

• City: Philadelphia
• Height: 1,121 feet
• Floors: 60
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 2018

Millions of rentable office, retail, and hotel square-footage soaring into the Philadelphia skyline more than puts the city on the map for skyscrapers, but there's a reason we compare everything to New York and Chicago. 

• City: Chicago
• Height: 1,41 feet
• Floors: 108
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 1974

For a quarter of a century, Willis Tower (then Sears Tower) stood as the tallest building on the planet. A few places have since surpassed it, but that kind of notoriety is still legendary. 

• City: New York City
• Height: 1,776 feet
• Floors: 104
• Building Type: Commercial Offices
• Year Completed: 2014

Also known as Freedom Tower, here stands the tallest building in the country, and the hemisphere for that matter. Beyond functionality, the tower stands as a monument to the Twin Towers lost in the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, at an appropriate 1,776 feet.