This list of early skyscrapers details a range of tall, commercial buildings built between 1880 and the 1930s, predominantly in the United States cities of New York and Chicago, but also across the rest of the U.S. and in many other parts of the world.

The first skyscrapers (1880–1899)

United States

California

• Central Tower
• Old Chronicle Building

Georgia

• Equitable Building
• Flatiron Building
• J. Mack Robinson College of Business Administration Building

Illinois

• Fisher Building
• Home Insurance Building
• Manhattan Building
• Marquette Building
• Marshall Field and Company Building
• Masonic Temple
• Monadnock Building
• New York Life Insurance Building
• Old Colony Building
• Rand McNally Building
• Reliance Building
• Rookery Building
• Tacoma Building

Iowa

• Observatory Building

Massachusetts

• 27 State St.
• 62 Boylston Street
• Ames Building
• Fiske Building
• Winthrop Building

Michigan

• United Way Community Services Building
• Hammond Building
• Majestic Building
• Union Trust Building

Minnesota

• Metropolitan Building
• Pioneer Building

Missouri

• Wainwright Building

New York

New York City

• American Tract Society Building
• American Surety Building
• Bayard–Condict Building
• Bowling Green Offices Building
• Empire Building
• Gillender Building
• Hotel Chelsea
• Hotel Gerard
• Manhattan Life Insurance Building
• New York Times Building
• New York Tribune Building
• New York World Building
• Osborne Apartments
• Park Row Building
• St. Paul Building
• Temple Court Building
• The Ansonia

Rochester

• Wilder Building

Buffalo

• Dun Building, Buffalo
• Ellicott Square Building
• Guaranty Building

Albany

• 100 State Street, Albany

Pennsylvania

• Land Title Building
• North American Building

Utah

• Boston Building, Salt Lake City
• First Security Building, Salt Lake City
• Joseph Smith Memorial Building
• Judge Building
• Kearns Building
• Newhouse Building (Salt Lake City)

Wisconsin

• Milwaukee City Hall
• Pabst Building

Washington D.C.

• Sun Building
• The Cairo

Rest of the world

Asia

Japan

• Ryounkaku

Bangladesh

• Navana Tower

Australia

Melbourne

• APA Building

Sydney

• Culwulla Chambers

Europe

Netherlands

• Witte Huis

United Kingdom

• Queen Anne's Mansions

The "First Great Age" (1900–19)

United States

Alabama

• City Federal Building
• Empire Building

California

• Bank of America Building
• Hobart Building
• Merchants Exchange Building
• Oakland City Hall

Colorado

• Daniels & Fisher Tower

Connecticut

• Travelers Tower

Florida

• 121 Atlantic Place
• American National Bank Building (Pensacola, Florida)
• Dyal–Upchurch Building
• Heard National Bank Building, Jacksonville
• Florida Life Building

Georgia

• Candler Building (Atlanta)
• J. Mack Robinson College of Business Administration Building

Illinois

• Brooks Building
• Chicago Building
• Continental Illinois
• Hotel Aurora (Aurora, Illinois)
• Peoples Gas Building
• Renaissance Blackstone Hotel
• Roanoke Building
• Santa Fe Building

Iowa

• Fleming Building
• Liberty Building

Indiana

• 110 East Washington Street
• Barnes and Thornburg Building
• Fletcher Trust Building
• One North Pennsylvania

Maryland

• Baltimore Gas and Electric Company Building
• Emerson Bromo-Seltzer Tower
• One Calvert Plaza

Massachusetts

• 1200 Main Street Springfield
• Custom House Tower
• Hotel Kimball Springfield

Michigan

• AT&T Michigan Headquarters
• Book Tower
• Chrysler House
• David Whitney Building
• Ford Building
• Kales Building
• Marquette Building
• Michigan Central Station
• Penobscot Building Annex
• Vinton Building

Minnesota

• Commerce Building (Saint Paul, Minnesota)
• First National Bank Building Annex, Saint Paul
• Great Northern Building, Saint Paul
• The Lowry Medical Arts Building, Saint Paul
• The Saint Paul Hotel, Saint Paul

Missouri

• Commerce Trust Building
• Railway Exchange Building (St. Louis)

Nebraska

• First National Bank Building (Omaha, Nebraska)

New York

New York City

• 1 Wall Street Court
• 14 Wall Street
• 49 Chambers
• 90 West Street
• 150 Nassau Street
• 195 Broadway
• American Surety Building
• Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company Building
• Bank of the Metropolis Building
• Bowling Green Offices Building
• Broad Exchange Building
• Broadway–Chambers Building
• Bush Tower
• City Investing Building
• Consolidated Edison Building
• Empire Building
• Equitable Building
• Equitable Life Building
• Flatiron Building
• Germania Life Insurance Company Building
• Gillender Building
• Home Life Building
• Hudson Terminal
• Liberty Tower
• Manhattan Life Insurance Building
• Manhattan Municipal Building
• Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower
• Morse Building
• New York Times Building
• New York Tribune Building
• New York World Building
• One Times Square
• Park Row Building
• Singer Building
• St. Paul Building
• Trinity and United States Realty Buildings
• Western Union Telegraph Building
• Whitehall Building
• Woolworth Building

Rochester

• Kodak Tower

Buffalo

• Cathedral Place, Buffalo
• The Marin
• Verizon/AT&T Building, Buffalo

Ohio

• Bartlett Building
• Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
• Fourth & Walnut Center
• LeVeque Tower
• Fourth and Vine Tower
• Rockefeller Building (Cleveland)

Pennsylvania

• Arrott Building
• Benedum-Trees Building
• Farmers Bank Building
• Frick Building
• Land Title Building
• Oliver Building
• The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel
• The Carlyle

Tennessee

• Exchange Building
• The Burwell

Texas

• Adolphus Hotel
• ALICO Building
• Kirby Building

Utah

• hotel monaco salt lake city
• Walker Center

Virginia

• First National Bank Building

Washington

• Old National Bank Building
• Smith Tower

Elsewhere in the world

United Kingdom

• Royal Liver Building
• Tower Building, Liverpool

Argentina

• Edificio Otto Wulf
• Galeria Guemes
• Archivo General de la Nacion
• Plaza Hotel Buenos Aires
• Railway Building

Australia

• Culwulla Chambers
• Dovers Building
• Trust Building

Germany

Berlin

• Behrensbau ^[de]
• Narva-Turm ^[de]
• Siemensturm

Jena

• Zeiss Bau 15 ^[de]

Netherlands

• De Inktpot ^[nl]

Poland

• PAST (Poland)

Russia

Saint Petersburg

• The fairy tale house

Moscow

• Afremov's house
• House of Nirnsee

South Africa

• Union Buildings

Ukraine

• Bendersky's house
• Ginsburg House (Kyiv Paris)
• Doctor's castle
• The Ginsburg skyscraper
• Fyodor Alyoshin's profitable house

Inter-war period, boom and depression (1920–1939)

United States

Arizona

• Heard Building
• Hotel San Carlos (Phoenix)
• Luhrs Building
• Luhrs Tower
• Orpheum Lofts
• Pioneer Hotel
• Professional Building (Phoenix, Arizona)
• Valley National Bank Building (Tucson, Arizona)
• Westward Ho (Phoenix)

Connecticut

• Southern New England Telephone Company Administration Building
• The Stark Building
• Travelers Tower

California

• 140 New Montgomery
• 225 Bush Street
• 450 Sutter Street
• Bank of Italy (Fresno, California)
• El Cortez Hotel
• Helm Building, Fresno
• Hotel Californian, Fresno
• Los Angeles City Hall
• Pacific Southwest Building
• Richfield Tower
• Russ Building
• Shell Building
• Tribune Tower

Florida

• Freedom Tower (Miami)
• Miami Biltmore Hotel
• Miami-Dade County Courthouse

Georgia

• Fourth National Bank Building
• Rhodes-Haverty Building

Idaho

• Hoff Building

Indiana

• AT&T Building (Indianapolis)
• Lincoln Bank Tower

Illinois

• 333 North Michigan
• 35 East Wacker
• Carbide & Carbon Building
• Chicago Board of Trade Building
• Chicago Temple Building
• Civic Opera Building
• Faust Landmark
• Field Building
• LaSalle-Wacker Building
• Leland Tower
• London Guarantee Building
• Mather Tower
• Metropolitan Tower
• Morrison Hotel
• One North LaSalle
• Palmolive Building
• Pittsfield Building
• Powhatan Apartments
• Randolph Tower
• Rockford Trust Building
• Tribune Tower
• Trustees System Service Building
• Wrigley Building

Iowa

• Equitable Building
• Wells Fargo Building

Louisiana

• Charity Hospital (New Orleans)
• First National Bank of Commerce Building
• Four Winds (New Orleans)
• Hibernia Bank Building
• Louisiana State Capitol
• National American Bank Building

Maine

• People's United Bank Building
• Time and Temperature Building
• Verizon Building, Bangor

Maryland

• Bank of America Building (Baltimore)

Massachusetts

• Suffolk County Courthouse
• US Shoe Machinery Corporation Building

Michigan

• AT&T Michigan Headquarters
• Boji Tower
• Book Tower
• Buhl Building
• Cadillac Place
• Cadillac Tower
• David Broderick Tower
• David Stott Building
• First National Building
• Fisher Building
• Fort Shelby Hotel
• Grand Park Centre
• Guardian Building
• Industrial Building (Detroit)
• Hudson Department Store
• Macabees Building
• Penobscot Building
• United Artists Theatre Building
• Washington Boulevard Building
• Water Board Building
• Westin Book Cadillac Hotel

Minnesota

• CenturyLink Building
• CenturyLink Building, Saint Paul
• First National Bank Building
• Foshay Tower
• Lowry Hotel, Saint Paul
• Minnesota Building
• Saint Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse
• Saint Paul City Hall Annex
• United States Post Office/Custom House, Saint Paul

Mississippi

• King Edward Hotel (Jackson, Mississippi)
• Lamar Life Building
• Regions Bank Building (Jackson, Mississippi)
• Standard Life Building

Missouri

• 909 Walnut
• 925 Grand
• Civil Courts Building
• Kansas City City Hall
• Kansas City Power and Light Building
• Oak Tower
• Southwestern Bell Building

Nebraska

• Nebraska State Capitol

New Jersey

• 155 washington street
• 24 Commerce Street
• Bamberger's
• Camden City Hall
• Eleven 80
• Griffith Building
• Home Office Building
• Military Park Building
• National Newark Building
• New Jersey Bell Headquarters Building
• Prudential Headquarters#Gibraltar Building
• The Claridge Hotel
• Union County Courthouse (New Jersey)

New York

New York City

• 1 Wall Street
• 10 East 40th Street
• 110 East 42nd Street
• 120 Wall Street
• 15 Broad Street
• 20 Exchange Place
• 20 West Street
• 21 West Street
• 26 Broadway
• 30 Rockefeller Plaza
• 32 Avenue of the Americas
• 330 West 42nd Street
• 40 Wall Street
• 500 Fifth Avenue
• 525 Lexington Avenue
• 60 Hudson Street
• 70 Pine Street
• American Radiator Building
• Chanin Building
• Chrysler Building
• Cunard Building
• Daily News Building
• Empire State Building
• Fuller Building
• General Electric Building
• Helmsley Building
• Metropolitan Life North Building
• Nelson Tower
• New York Life Building
• One Grand Central Place
• Paramount Building
• Pershing Square Building
• Ritz Tower
• Rockefeller Center
• Savoy-Plaza Hotel
• The Beresford
• The Century
• The Eldorado
• The Majestic
• The Pierre
• The San Remo
• The Sherry-Netherland
• Verizon Building
• Waldorf Astoria
• Wall and Hanover Building
• Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower
• Wyndham New Yorker Hotel

Buffalo

• 42 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo
• Buffalo Central Terminal
• Buffalo City Hall
• Convention Tower, Buffalo
• Electric Tower
• Liberty Building
• Rand Building

Rochester

• Sibley's, Lindsay and Curr Building
• Times Square Building

Syracuse

• Hills Building, Syracuse
• Niagara Mohawk Building
• State Tower Building

Albany

• 69 State Street, Albany
• 90 State Street, Albany
• Alfred E. Smith Building
• Home Savings Bank Building

New Rochelle

• 271 North Avenue

North Carolina

• 112 Tryon Plaza
• Johnston Building (Charlotte, North Carolina)

Ohio

• AT&T Huron Road Building
• Carew Tower Complex
• Cincinnati American Building
• Fenn Tower
• FirstMerit Tower
• Guardian Bank Building
• Keith Building
• LeVeque Tower
• National City Bank Building
• Parkview Apartments (Cleveland)
• Standard Building
• Superior Building
• Terminal Tower
• The 925 Building

Oklahoma

• 320 South Boston Building
• City Place Tower (Oklahoma City)
• First National Center
• Philtower Building

Pennsylvania

• Cathedral of Learning
• Drake Hotel
• Grant Building
• Gulf Tower
• Koppers Tower
• One South Broad
• PSFS Building
• Ritz-Carlton
• Suburban Station
• Wells Fargo Building

Rhode Island

• Industrial National Bank Building
• Rhode Island Hospital Trust Building
• Turk's Head Building

Tennessee

• 88 Union Center Memphis
• Andrew Johnson Building
• Crosstown Concourse
• Exchange Building (Memphis)
• Lincoln American Tower
• Madison Hotel (Memphis, Tennessee)
• Number 10 Main Memphis
• Sterchi Lofts, Knoxville
• Sterick Building
• Tennessee Theatre
• The Holston

Texas

• Esperson Buildings
• JPMorgan Chase Building
• Magnolia Hotel
• Tower Life Building

Utah

• Ogden/Weber Municipal Building
• Bigelow-Ben Lomond Hotel

Virginia

• Central National Bank (Richmond, Virginia)
• Hotel John Marshall

Washington

• Seattle Tower

Wisconsin

• AT&T Center (Milwaukee)
• City Center at 735
• Cudahy Tower
• Hilton Milwaukee City Center
• Wells Building
• Wisconsin Gas Building
• Wisconsin Tower

Elsewhere in the world

Australia

Melbourne

• Alkira House
• Australasian Catholic Assurance Building
• Capitol Theatre
• Deva House
• Majorca Building
• Manchester Unity Building

Sydney

• AWA Tower
• Grace Building

Austria

Vienna

• Hochhaus Herrengasse

Argentina

• Kavanagh Building
• Palacio Barolo

Belgium

Antwerp

• Boerentoren
• Century Center

Brussels

• Les Pavillons français [1]
• Résidence de la Cambre

Ghent

• Centrale Universiteitsbibliotheek

Canada

Montreal

• Royal Bank Tower

Toronto

• Imperial Bank of Commerce Building
• Fairmont Royal York

Vancouver

• Hotel Vancouver

China

Guangzhou

• Aiqun Hotel
• Nanfang Building

Shanghai

• Bank of China Building
• Broadway Mansions
• Customs House
• Development Building
• Hamilton House
• Metropole Hotel
• Headquarters of China State Bank
• Headquarters of China Land Bank
• Chung Wai Bank Building
• Old Seagull on the Bund
• Headquarters of Joint Savings Society
• Da-Sun Department Store
• New Wing-On Tower
• Bank of East Asia Building
• Hengshan Picardie Hotel
• Jinjiang Hotel
• Park Hotel
• Peace Hotel

Hong Kong

• Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Headquarters Building

Czech Republic

• Baťa's Skyscraper

Finland

• Hotel Torni

France

Villeurbanne

• Gratte-ciel_(Villeurbanne) ^[fr]

Germany

Aachen

• Haus Grenzwacht ^[de]

Berlin

• Borsigturm ^[de]
• Columbushaus
• Europahaus
• Karstadt Berlin Hermannplatz ^[de]
• Kathreiner-Haus ^[de]
• Shell-Haus
• Ullsteinhaus ^[de]
• Wernerwerk-Hochhaus ^[de]

Braunschweig

• Haus der Wissenschaft Braunschweig ^[de]

Chemnitz

• Cammann-Hochhaus

Cologne

• Hansahochhaus

Dresden

• Ernemann-Werke ^[de]
• Hochhaus am Albertplatz ^[de]

Düsseldorf

• Stummhaus ^[de]
• Wilhelm Marx House

Essen

• Deutschlandhaus (Essen) ^[de]

Gera

• Handelshof ^[de]

Hamburg

• Chilehaus
• Brahms Kontor
• Meßberghof

Hanover

• Anzeiger-Hochhaus ^{[de; fi; it; ru]}
• Capitol

Jena

• Bau 36

Leipzig

• Europahaus (Leipzig)
• Krochhochhaus ^[de]

Magdeburg

• Faber-Hochhaus ^[de]

Munich

• Old Technical Town Hall

Stuttgart

• Tagblatt-Turm
• Breuninger Hochhaus

Wismar

• Hochhaus am Platz des Friedens

Hungary

Budapest

• Madách Square Tower (vision)^[1]
• Az Országos Társadalombiztosító Intézet székháza ^[hu]

Italy

Brescia

• Torrione INA

Genoa

• Torre Dante
• Torre Piacentini

Milan

• Palazzo e Torre Rasini ^[it]
• Snia Viscosa Tower
• Palazzo Locatelli

Turin

• Torre Littoria

Netherlands

Amsterdam

• De Bazel

Rotterdam

• Witte Huis

• GEB toren

New Zealand

• Consultancy House

Poland

Warsaw

• Prudential, Warsaw
• PAST

Wroclaw

• Wrocław Post Office ^[de]
• Biurowiec przy Rynku 9-11 ^[pl]

Katowice

• Drapacz Chmur

Romania

Bucharest

• Telephones Company Building

Russia

• Palace of the Soviets (vision)
• House on the Embankment

Serbia

• Palace Albanija

Slovenia

• Nebotičnik

South Africa

• Chamber of Mines Building

Spain

Madrid

• Edificio Carrión
• Edificio Vitalicio
• La Unión y el Fénix Español building
• Palacio de la Prensa
• Telefónica Building
• Edificio Metrópolis

Barcelona

• Banco Vitalicio de España

A Coruña

• Edificio del Banco Pastor en La Coruña

Sweden

Stockholm

• Kungstornen

Gothenburg

• Otterhall [2]

Switzerland

• Bel-Air-Turm ^[de]

Ukraine

Kyiv

• Government Building, Kyiv

Kharkiv

• Derzhprom
• National University of Kharkiv

United Kingdom

London

• 55 Broadway
• Senate House, London
• Shell Mex House
• Adelaide House

Manchester

• Quay Street Tower (unbuilt)
• Sunlight House
• Lancaster House, Manchester
• Ship Canal House

Liverpool

• Martins Bank Building
• India Buildings
• Exchange Flags
• Wellington Buildings