List of tallest buildings in Iowa

Skyline of Des Moines

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

Tallest buildings[]

Rank	Name	Image	Height ft (m)	Floors	Year	City	Notes
1	801 Grand (previously The Principal Building)		630 (192)	45	1991	Des Moines	Office
2	Ruan Center		460 (140)	36	1975	Des Moines	Office
3	Des Moines Marriott Hotel		365 (111)	33	1981	Des Moines	Hotel
4	Financial Center		345 (105)	25	1973	Des Moines	Office
5	Plaza Building		340 (104)	25	1985	Des Moines	Residential
T6	HUB Tower		325 (99)	25	1986	Des Moines	Office
T6	EMC Insurance Building		325 (99)	19	1997	Des Moines	Office
7	Equitable Building		318 (97)	19	1924	Des Moines	Residential
8	Alliant Tower		285 (87)	21	1972	Cedar Rapids	Office
9	Iowa State Capitol		275 (84)	4	1884	Des Moines	Government
10	CenturyLink Complex		273 (83)	15	1928	Des Moines	Office
11	Davenport Bank and Trust		255 (77)	19	1927	Davenport	Office/Residential
12	Register and Tribune Building		243 (74)	14	1916	Des Moines	Office
13	Cedar River Tower		237 (72)	25	1974	Cedar Rapids	Residential/Office
14	MidAmerican Building		220 (67)	15	1995	Davenport	Office
15	Plaza 425		207 (63)	14	1983	Cedar Rapids	Office
16	Dubuque County Courthouse		205 (62)	5	1893	Dubuque	Government
17	The Chauncey		191 (58)	15	2019	Iowa City	Hotel/Residential
18T	Des Moines Building		190 (58)	14	1930	Des Moines	Office/Residential
18T	Quaker Oats Plant		190 (58)	13	1927	Cedar Rapids	Industrial
19	Bank of America Building		186 (57)	14	1966	Des Moines	Office
20	Two Ruan Center		185 (56)	14	1982	Des Moines	Office
21	CRST Tower		180 (54)	11	2017	Cedar Rapids	Office
22	Veterans Memorial Building		175 (53)	10	1927	Cedar Rapids	Government
23T	Liberty Building		174 (53)	12	1923	Des Moines	Mixed Use
23T	Fleming Building		174 (53)	11	1909	Des Moines	Office
24T	Hippee Building		172 (52)	12	1913	Des Moines	Office
24T	Davis Brown Tower		172 (52)	13	2008	Des Moines	Office
25	US Bank Building		166 (50)	12	1926	Cedar Rapids	Office
26	Polk County Courthouse		160 (48)	4	1906	Des Moines	Government
27	Hubbell Building		150 (45)	10	1913	Des Moines	Residential

Note: Churches have been omitted from this list.

Tall buildings prior to 1884[]

Ladies' College Building, Davenport, 1856, later .

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.

Other early tall building include:

• , 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]

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