Timeline of Tallest Buildings
This lists buildings that once held the title of tallest building in Houston.
| Name | Street address | Years as tallest | Height |
Floors | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lomas & Nettleton Building | 201 Main Street | 1904–1908 | N/A | 8 | |
| 711 Main | 711 Main Street | 1908–1910 | 134 / 41 | 10 | |
| 806 Main | 806 Main Street | 1910–1926 | 302 / 92 | 23 | |
| Magnolia Hotel | 1100 Texas Avenue | 1926–1927 | 325 / 99 | 22 | |
| Niels Esperson Building | 808 Travis Street | 1927–1929 | 410 / 125 | 32 | |
| JPMorgan Chase Building | 712 Main Street | 1929–1963 | 428 / 131 | 36 | |
| Exxon Building | 800 Bell Avenue | 1963–1971 | 607 / 185 | 44 | |
| One Shell Plaza | 910 Louisiana Street | 1971–1980 | 714 / 218 | 50 | |
| Enterprise Plaza | 1100 Louisiana Street | 1980–1982 | 756 / 230 | 55 | |
| JPMorgan Chase Tower | 600 Travis Street | 1982–present | 1,002 / 305 | 75 |
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“But not the tallest there, ‘tis said,
Could fathom to this pond’s black bed.”
—Edmund Blunden (1896–1974)
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