List of early skyscrapers
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This list of early skyscrapers details a range of tall, commercial buildings built between 1880 and the 1930s, predominantly in the United States cities of New York and Chicago, but also across the rest of the U.S. and in many other parts of the world.
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The first skyscrapers (1880–1899)
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- American Tract Society Building
- 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
Rest of the world
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Asia
[edit]Europe
[edit]North and South America
[edit]- Beard Building, Toronto
- Canada Life Building, Montreal
- New York Life Insurance Building, Montreal
- Temple Building, Toronto
- Toronto Board of Trade Building
Oceania
[edit]- APA Building, Melbourne
- Culwulla Chambers, Sydney
The "First Great Age" (1900–19)
[edit]United States
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- 1 Wall Street Court
- 14 Wall Street
- 49 Chambers
- 90 West Street
- 150 Nassau Street
- 195 Broadway
- American Surety Building
- Bank of the Metropolis Building
- Bowling Green Offices Building
- Broad Exchange Building
- Broadway–Chambers Building
- Bush Tower
- City Investing Building
- Consolidated Edison Building
- Empire Building
- Equitable Building
- Equitable Life Building
- Flatiron Building
- Germania Life Insurance Company Building
- Gillender Building
- Home Life Building
- Hudson Terminal
- Liberty Tower
- Manhattan Life Insurance Building
- Manhattan Municipal Building
- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower
- Morse Building
- New York Times Building
- New York Tribune Building
- New York World Building
- One Times Square
- Park Row Building
- Singer Building
- St. Paul Building
- Trinity and United States Realty Buildings
- Western Union Telegraph Building
- Whitehall Building
- Woolworth Building
Elsewhere in the world
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- Culwulla Chambers, Sydney
- Dovers Building, Melbourne
- Trust Building, Sydney
- Canadian Pacific Building, Toronto
- Confederation Building, Winnipeg
- Dominion Building, Vancouver
- Royal Bank Building, Toronto
- Sun Tower, Vancouver
- Trader's Bank Building, Toronto
- Union Bank Building, Winnipeg
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- De Inktpot [nl]
- Consultancy House, Dunedin
- Public Trust Building, Wellington
Inter-war period, boom and depression (1920–1939)
[edit]- 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
- Leland Tower
- London Guarantee Building
- Mather Tower
- Metropolitan Tower
- Morrison Hotel
- One North LaSalle
- Palmolive Building
- Pittsfield Building
- Powhatan Apartments
- Randolph Tower
- Tribune Tower
- Trustees System Service Building
- Wrigley Building
- 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
- 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
- 525 Lexington Avenue
- 60 Hudson Street
- 70 Pine Street
- American Radiator Building
- Chanin Building
- Chrysler Building
- Cunard Building
- Daily News Building
- Empire State Building
- Fuller Building
- General Electric Building
- Helmsley Building
- Metropolitan Life North Building
- Nelson Tower
- New York Life Building
- One Grand Central Place
- Paramount Building
- Pershing Square Building
- Ritz Tower
- Rockefeller Center
- Savoy-Plaza Hotel
- 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
Elsewhere in the world
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- Handelshof [de]
- Erasmus House [nl]
- GEB Tower [nl]
- Quay Street Tower (unbuilt)
- Sunlight House
- Lancaster House, Manchester
- Ship Canal House
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- Hotel St George, Wellington
- Mutual Life & Citizens Assurance Company Building, Wellington