List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Iowa

List of tallest buildings in Iowa

List of tallest buildings in Iowa

List of the current tallest buildings in Iowa

This list of tallest buildings in Iowa ranks skyscrapers in the US state of Iowa by height for existing and proposed structures.

Skyline of Des Moines

Tallest buildings

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Note: Churches have been omitted from this list.

Tallest buildings: Site Prep or Under Construction

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Timeline of Tallest Buildings

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Tall buildings prior to 1884

Ladies' College Building, Davenport, 1856, later Mount Ida Female College.
Mount Ida Female College in 1858, after dome was added.

There does not seem to have been any effort to document the tallest building in Iowa prior to the construction of the State Capitol in 1884. This list shows buildings which may have been the tallest in Iowa prior to 1884, excluding church steeples.

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Other early tall building include:

  • Mount Ida Female College, Davenport, 1856. First four-story dwelling, later had a high dome placed on top, may have rivaled Old Capitol in height.[1][2]
  • Fort Madison, 1808, probably the first two-story buildings in what would become Iowa.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Nathan Howe Parker, Iowa as it is in 1856: a gazetteer for citizens, 1856
  2. [2]
    Wilkie, Franc B. (1858), Davenport, past and present
  3. [3]
    Jackson, Donald (1958) "Old Fort Madison 1808–1813." Palimpsest 39(1).
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