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list of tall buildings in 1913



this collection includes buildings of least 40 meters tall that were completed before 1945. Buildings that are shorter than 40 meters but possess skyscraperesque features are included in this list, though they are not ranked

giraffes
during this period, a significant number of 'giraffe' buildings were constructed. A giraffe is defined as a low-rise building with a tower integrated into its design. To qualify for inclusion in this collection, the tower section must have habitable floors occupying more than fifty percent of its total height

color codes
  later reconstructed      later demolished

# name city height usage year
1 Royal Liver Building Liverpool 104 office 1911
2 Victoria Tower London 99 storage 1860
3 Ginzburg House   Kyiv 63 residential 1912
4 Sankt Erikspalatset Stockholm 58 residential / office 1910
5 Rathaus Augsburg 57 city hall 1624
6 Midland Grand Hotel London 57 hotel 1873
7 Balmoral Hotel Edinburgh 56 hotel 1902
8 Polska Akcyjna Spółka Telefoniczna Warsaw 52 office 1910
9 Mathematische Turm Kremsmünster 49 observatory / museum 1758
10 Queen Anne's Mansions   London 49 residential 1890
11 Strand Hotel Stockholm 47 hotel 1912
12 Tower Building Liverpool 46 office 1908
13 Yusuf Ziya Pasha Mansion Istanbul 46 residential 1911
14 Fairy-Tale House   Saint Petersburg 45 residential 1909
15 Edificio Metrópolis Madrid 45 office 1911
16 The Langham London 44 hotel 1865
17 City Chambers Edinburgh 42 office 1760
18 Witte Huis Rotterdam 42 office 1898
19 Narva-Turm Berlin 40 office 1909
20 Beyer-Bau Dresden 40 observatorium 1913
- Gebouw Astoria Amsterdam 37 office 1905
- Hotel Savoy Łódź 37 hotel 1911
- Lietuvos geležinkeliai Vilnius 36 office 1903
- Market Street storehouse Dublin 36 storage 1904
- Afremov House Moscow 35 residential 1905
- De Utrecht Amsterdam 35 office 1906
- Immeuble Cateland Lyon 31 residential 1911
- Trinity Compound on Ilyinka Moscow 30 residential 1876
- Casa Lancia   Milan 30 office 1907
- Tour Chicago Paris 30 storage 1912
- 48 Rue de Valois Paris 26 hotel / residential 1781
- Oriel Chambers Liverpool 21 office 1864
- Ditherington Flax Mill Shrewsbury 17 factory 1797