Timeline of Tallest Buildings
This lists buildings that once held the title of tallest building in Dallas. The first skyscraper in the city is generally regarded to be the Praetorian Building, which served as the city's tallest from 1909 until 1912. The Praetorian Building was also the first skyscraper constructed in the Southwestern United States and is sometimes classified as the first skyscraper to be constructed in the Western United States. However, depending on one's definition of "the West", this title could also go to the 1885 Lumber Exchange Building in Minneapolis.
| Name | Image | Street address | Years as tallest | Height |
Floors | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wilson Building | 1623 Main Street | 1904–1909 | 110 (34) | 8 | ||
| Praetorian Building | 1607 Main Street | 1909–1912 | 190 (58) | 14 | ||
| Adolphus Hotel | 1321 Commerce Street | 1912–1923 | 312 (95) | 20 | ||
| Magnolia Hotel | 1401 Commerce Street | 1923–1943 | 399 (122) | 29 | ||
| Mercantile National Bank Building | 1700 Main Street | 1943–1954 | 523 (159) | 31 | ||
| Republic Center Tower I | 300 North Ervay Street | 1954–1965 | 602 (184) | 36 | ||
| Elm Place | 1401 Elm Street | 1965–1974 | 625 (191) | 52 | ||
| Renaissance Tower | 1201 Elm Street | 1974–1985 | 710 (216) | 56 | ||
| Bank of America Plaza | 901 Main Street | 1985–present | 921 (281) | 72 |
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