Timeline of Tallest Buildings
This lists buildings that once held the title of tallest building in Toronto.
| Name | Street address | Years as tallest | Height |
Floors | Reference | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beard Building | King Street East | 1894–1896 | 30 / 98 | 7 | ||
| Temple Building | Bay Street | 1896–1906 | 40 / 131 | 10 | ||
| Trader's Bank Building | Yonge Street | 1906–1912 | 60 / 197 | 15 | ||
| Canadian Pacific Building | 69 Yonge Street | 1912–1915 | 65 / 213 | 15 | ||
| Royal Bank Building | 20 King Street East | 1915–1928 | 80 / 295 | 21 | ||
| Sterling Tower | 372 Bay Street | 1928–1929 | 90 / 313 | 21 | ||
| Royal York Hotel | 100 Front Street West | 1929–1931 | 124 / 407 | 28 | ||
| Commerce Court North | 25 King Street West | 1931–1967 | 145 / 476 | 34 | ||
| Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower | 66 Wellington Street West | 1967–1972 | 223 / 731 | 56 | ||
| Commerce Court West | 199 Bay Street | 1972–1975 | 239 / 784 | 57 | ||
| First Canadian Place | 100 King Street West | 1975–present | 298 / 976 | 72 |
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“But not the tallest there, ‘tis said,
Could fathom to this pond’s black bed.”
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