| Height | 400 feet |
|---|---|
| Floors | 40 |
| Year | 1971 |
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About Harbor Towers
The Harbor Towers are two Brutalist-era forty-story residential towers located on the waterfront of the U.S. city of Boston, nestled between the New England Aquarium and the iconic Rowe's Wharf mixed use development. Harbor Towers I, the taller of the two towers, stands 400 feet (122 m), while Harbor Towers II rises 396 ft (121 m). The towers are the 26th and 28th-tallest buildings in Boston, respectively. Initially built as affordable rental housing, Harbor Towers's first residents arrived in 1971. While the modern looking towers offered unparalleled harborfront and city skyline views, the architectural style, with contributions from renowned architect I.M. Pei, was out of place in the provincial New England port city and the area surrounding the project was, at that time, a rough, dusty warehouse district with more surface parking lots per acre than any other area of the city. Once separated from the city's financial district by a two story elevated highway, and from its neighboring Italian-American North End by its isolated modern look and feel, the apartments felt distanced from the city.