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Three Nationwide Plaza Three Nationwide Plaza is a postmodern highrise building located at the address 3 Nationwide Plaza in Downtown Columbus, Ohio. The building is part of the larger multi-building complex known as Nationwide Plaza. Nationwide Plaza is the headqu ...

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William Green Building The William Green Building is a , 33-floor skyscraper in Columbus, Ohio, United States. It was constructed from 1987 to 1990, and was topped out on June 8, 1988. It is the third-tallest building in Columbus, the tallest constructed in 1990s and th ...

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Rhodes State Office Tower The James A. Rhodes State Office Tower is a 41-story, skyscraper on Capitol Square in downtown Columbus, Ohio. The Rhodes Tower was completed and occupied in 1974, and is currently the tallest building in Columbus and the fifth tallest in O ...

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Ohio Judicial Center The Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center is a state courthouse, office building, and library in Columbus, Ohio, in the city's downtown Civic Center. The building is the headquarters of the Supreme Court of Ohio, the state's highest court, as we ...

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Miranova Place Miranova Place is an office and condominiums complex in Columbus, Ohio. The complex was completed in 2001. It consists of Miranova Condominiums and Miranova Corporate Tower, located at 1 and 2 Miranova Place respectively. Miranova Corporate Towe ...

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The tallest building by height in the U.S. city of

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, is the 41- story

, which rises and was completed in 1973. The structure is the fifth-tallest completed building in the state, and is also Ohio's tallest building that rises in the center of a

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. The city's second-tallest structure is the LeVeque Tower; this 1927 Art Deco skyscraper was the first building in the state to be built on caisson foundations. Of the 20 tallest buildings in Ohio, nine are located in Columbus. The history of

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s in Columbus began with the completion in 1901 of

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, which is regarded as the first high-rise in the city. This structure stands 13 stories and in height. Columbus went through an early high-rise construction boom in the 1920s, during which time the city saw the completion of the LeVeque Tower, which stood as the tallest structure in Columbus for 46 years. However, the pace of new high-rise construction then remained slow until 1960; starting in that year, Columbus entered into a large building boom that lasted until 1991. During that time, most of the city's tallest skyscrapers were built, including the Rhodes State Office Tower and the

. Although no Columbus skyscraper ranks among the tallest in the United States, the city is the site of five skyscrapers at least high. Based on existing and under-construction buildings over tall, the skyline of Columbus is ranked first in Ohio, fourth in the

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(after Chicago, Minneapolis, and Detroit) and 19th in the country. As of September 2020, there are 96 completed high-rises in the city. Columbus ranks third in the state in high-rise count after Cleveland and Cincinnati, which have 163 and 169 completed high-rises respectively. Columbus saw very little high-rise construction between 1991 and 2010, with the completion of Fifth Third Center in 1998 and only four other skyscrapers ranking in city's 20 tallest buildings being constructed, the tallest of which is the Miranova Condominiums (2002), and the 20-story The Condominiums at North Bank Park in 2007. 2011 onward has seen significant high rise development in the downtown and close-in neighborhoods, including the 250 High building, the Hilton Downtown Columbus/Convention Center, the new Columbia Gas Building in the Arena District, and the Le Meridian Hotel at the Joseph in The Short North. As of 2017, there are numerous new high-rise buildings planned and under construction in the downtown area. __TOC__

Tallest buildings

This list ranks Columbus buildings that stand at least tall, based on standard height measurement. This includes spires and architectural details but does not include antenna masts. An equal sign (=) following a rank indicates the same height between two or more buildings.

Timeline of tallest buildings

This lists buildings that once held the title of tallest building in Columbus.

Buildings proposed, under construction, or envisioned

Under construction

Announced, approved and current proposals

Envisioned and past proposals

Notes

:A. New York has 282 completed buildings at least , Chicago has 126, Miami has 53, Houston has 39, Los Angeles has 26, San Francisco has 25, Seattle has 21, Dallas has 20, Boston has 20, Atlanta has 17, Las Vegas has 14, Philadelphia has 13, Minneapolis has 12, Jersey City has 11, Austin has 10, Pittsburgh has 10, Detroit has 8, Denver has 8, Charlotte has 7, and Columbus has 5.

References

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External links

Diagram of Columbus skyscrapers
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