Timeline of Tallest Buildings
This lists buildings that once held the title of tallest building in San Francisco as well as the current titleholder, the Transamerica Pyramid.
| Name | Street address | Years as tallest | Height |
Floors | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mills Building | 220 Bush Street | 1892-1898 | 154 (47) | 10 | |
| Central Tower | 703 Market Street | 1898-1915 | 299 (91) | 21 | |
| San Francisco City Hall | 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place | 1915–1922 | 308 (94) | 4 | |
| Commercial Union Assurance Building | 315 Montgomery Street | 1921–1922 | 308 (94) | 16 | |
| 225 Bush Street | 225 Bush Street | 1922–1925 | 328 (100) | 22 | |
| PacBell Building | 140 New Montgomery | 1925–1965 | 435 (133) | 26 | |
| Russ Building | 235 Montgomery Street | 1927–1965 | 435 (133) | 31 | |
| Hartford Building | 650 California Street | 1965–1967 | 466 (142) | 33 | |
| 44 Montgomery Street | 44 Montgomery Street | 1967–1969 | 565 (172) | 43 | |
| Bank of America Center | 555 California Street | 1969–1972 | 779 (237) | 52 | |
| Transamerica Pyramid | 600 Montgomery Street | 1972–present | 853 (260) | 48 |
Read more about this topic: List Of Tallest Buildings In San Francisco
Famous quotes containing the words tallest and/or buildings:
“But not the tallest there, ‘tis said,
Could fathom to this pond’s black bed.”
—Edmund Blunden (1896–1974)
“If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means—from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.”
—Margaret Halsey (b. 1910)