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347
feet
25
floors
1910
year built

The Oliver Building, also known as the Henry W. Oliver Building, is a prominent skyscraper in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a 25-story office building at 535 Smithfield Street, across from Mellon Square in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The building was designed by Daniel Burnham and built 1908-10, consisting of a stone and terra cotta facade over a steel frame.

212
feet
16
floors
1908
year built

One North Pennsylvania, formerly known as the Oddfellows Building, is a high rise building in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was completed in 1908 and has 16 floors. It is primarily used for office space.

One Times Square
New York City
395
feet
25
floors
1904
year built

One Times Square (also known as 1475 Broadway, New York Times Building and New York Times Tower) is a 25 story, 395 foot (110.6 m) high skyscraper at 42nd and Broadway in Times Square. It was the second tallest building in the world when it opened. The famous New Year's Times Square Ball drop is performed annually from its roof. It was originally built to be the headquarters of The New York Times. The Times was to start the tradition of dropping the ball.

One William Street
New York City
??
feet
11
floors
1907
year built

1 William Street is an office building located in New York City. The building, completed in 1907, was built for J & W Seligman, an investment bank. In 1928, the building was acquired by Lehman Brothers, another investment bank, which remained headquartered there until 1980. The building is presently owned by Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy's largest bank. In 1996, the building was designated as a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.

Oneten
Providence
520
feet
40
floors
1927
year built

One Ten Westminster was a proposed high-rise project in Providence, Rhode Island that was canceled in late 2007. Located at the address 110 Westminster Street, the 40-story 520-foot (158m) One Ten would have contained luxury condominiums and claimed the title of the tallest building in Providence, supplanting the 26-floor Bank of America building that was finished in 1927, and would have been the tallest residential building in New England.

PacBell Building
San Francisco
436
feet
26
floors
1925
year built

The PacBell Building or 140 New Montgomery Street in San Francisco's South of Market district is a Neo-Gothic, 435 feet (133 m) office tower located close to the St. Regis Museum Tower and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The 26-floor building was completed in 1925 and was San Francisco's first significant skyscraper development when construction began in 1924. The building was the tallest in San Francisco until the Russ Building tied its 435 foot (133 m) height two years later in 1927.

564
feet
37
floors
1929
year built

The Palmolive Building, formerly the Playboy Building, is a 37-story Art Deco building at 919 N. Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Built by Holabird & Root, it was completed in 1929 and was home to Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. The Palmolive Building came to be known as the Playboy Building when it was home to Playboy magazine from 1965 to 1989. During this time, the word P-L-A-Y-B-O-Y was spelled out in 9 feet (2.7 m) letters.

??
feet
18
floors
1926
year built

The Park Apartments are located at 114 West Adams Avenue in downtown Detroit, Michigan. The building sits at the corner of West Adams Avenue and Park Street with the Charlevoix Building, across from Grand Circus Park, and across Park St. from the Kales Building in the Foxtown neighbourhood. It was built in 1926 and stands at 18 storeys in height, with 163 units/rooms. The residential high-rise was designed in the Beaux Arts architectural style, and uses mainly brick and stone.

Park Row Building
New York City
391
feet
29
floors
1899
year built

First known as the Ivins Syndicate Building, or just the Syndicate Building, the Park Row Building is located on Park Row in the Financial District of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is also known simply as 15 Park Row. The architect was Robert Henderson Robertson, a pioneer in steel skyscraper design. One of the first structures to be called a skyscraper, the building was completed in 1899 after three years of construction.

??
feet
45
floors
1905
year built

The Penobscot Block is a complex of office towers centered around the 45-story Penobscot Building at the corner of Griswold Street and West Fort Street in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. The other two buildings in the complex are the Penobscot Building (youngest of the three), Penobscot Annex, and The Penobscot Building (oldest of the three).

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