Timeline of Tallest Buildings
This lists buildings that once held the title of tallest building in Pittsburgh.
| Name | Street address | Years as tallest | Height |
Floors | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity Episcopal Cathedral | 328 Sixth Avenue | 1872–1888 | 200 / 61 | N/A | |
| Allegheny County Courthouse | 436 Grant Street | 1888–1902 | 249 / 76 | 5 | |
| Farmers Bank Building | 301 Fifth Avenue | 1902–1910 | 344 / 105 | 27 | |
| Oliver Building | 535 Smithfield Street | 1910–1912 | 347 / 106 | 25 | |
| First National Bank Building | 511 Wood Street at Fifth Avenue | 1912–1928 | 387 / 118 | 26 | |
| Grant Building | 330 Grant Street | 1928–1932 | 485 / 148 | 40 | |
| Gulf Building | 707 Grant Street | 1932–1970 | 582 / 177 | 44 | |
| U.S. Steel Tower | 600 Grant Street | 1970–present | 841 / 256 | 64 |
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