List of early skyscrapers

This list of early skyscrapers details a range of tall, commercial buildings built between 1884 and 1939, predominantly in the US cities of New York and Chicago but also across the rest of the US and in many parts of the Western 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

For more details on the first skyscrapers, see Early skyscrapers#Emergence of the skyscraper: 1880-99.

• Home Insurance Building
• Tacoma Building
• Rand McNally Building
• The Rookery
• The Monadnock Building
• The World Building
• New York City Hall
• Sun Building
• The Tribune Building
• The American Tract Society
• The Times Building
• Masonic Temple
• Wainwright Building
• The Guaranty Building
• Milwaukee City Hall

The "First Great Age" (1900-19)

For more details on the "First Great Age" of skyscrapers, see Early skyscrapers#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)

• Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company Building
• Broad Exchange Building
• Flatiron Building
• Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower
• Woolworth Building
• Railway Exchange Building
• The Peoples Gas Building
• The Illinois Continental and Commercial Bank Building
• Manhattan Municipal Building
• The Equitable Building
• Royal Liver Building (in Liverpool)

Inter-war period (1920-39)

New York's skyscrapers, 1932

Chicago's skyscrapers, 1943

For more details on the inter-war skyscrapers, see Early skyscrapers#Inter-war period, boom and depression: 1920-39.

• Carew Tower Complex
• General Motors Building
• Fisher Building
• Union Trust Building
• Terminal Tower
• The Smith Tower
• The Los Angeles City Hall
• The Imperial Bank of Commerce Building
• The Boerentoren
• The Kavanagh Building
• Palace of the Soviets
• Paramount Building
• 120 Wall Street
• The Bank of Manhattan Trust Building
• The City Bank-Farmers Trust Company Building
• The Cities Service Building
• The Wrigley Building
• The Straus Building
• The Pittsfield Building
• The Tribune Tower
• The Trustees System Service Building
• The Chicago Civic Opera Building
• The LaSalle-Wacker Building
• The Palmolive Building
• The American Insurance Union
• The North Building
• The Chrysler Building
• The Empire State Building
• The Rockefeller Center
• The Field Building
• The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Headquarters Building

See also

• List of skyscrapers