History of Tallest Buildings

History of Tallest Building
Today, I make an informative list of ‘history of tallest building’ to improve your knowledge.

              From the 1200s until 1901, the world's tallest building was always a church or cathedral. In the 1200s Old St Paul's Cathedral with its spire was completed. Completed in the early 1300s, the central spire of Lincoln Cathedral surpassed it. In 1549 this spire collapsed, thus making the shorter St. Mary's Church in Stralsund the world's tallest building.

This is the list of tallest buildings history from 1200s to 1901:

Years tallest	Name	Location	Height
1200s–1300	Old St Paul's Cathedral	London	149 meters (489 ft)
1300–1549	Lincoln Cathedral	Lincoln	159.7 meters (524 ft)
1549–1647	St. Mary's Church	Stralsund	151 meters (495 ft)
1647–1874	Strasbourg Cathedral	Strasbourg	142 meters (466 ft)
1874–1876	Church of St. Nicholas	Hamburg	147 meters (482 ft)
1876–1880	Rouen Cathedral	Rouen	151 meters (495 ft)
1880–1890	Cologne Cathedral	Cologne	157.38 meters (516.3 ft)
1890–1901	Ulm Minster	Ulm	161.53 meters (530.0 ft)

In the 19th Century, a new kind of structure was developed, using an iron or steel internal structure (instead of the outer walls) to bear the building's weight. The taller of these buildings are called skyscrapers. There is no one building that can be definitely termed the first skyscraper. The Equitable Life Building in New York was completed in 1870. At 7 storey and 40 meters, it was the first office building to feature passenger elevators and was, at the time of its completion, the tallest non-church building in the world. Some consider the Equitable Life Building with its world-first elevators to be the first skyscraper.

This is list of tallest skyscrapers in world from 1870 to Present:

Years tallest	Name	Location	Height
1870–1884	Equitable Life Building	New York	40 meters (130 ft)
1884–1890	Home Insurance Building	Chicago	42 meters (138 ft)
1890–1894	New York World Building	New York	94 meters (308 ft)
1894–1895	Manhattan Life Insurance Building	New York	100 meters (330 ft)
1895–1899	Milwaukee City Hall	Milwaukee	108 meters (354 ft)
1899–1901	Park Row Building	New York	119 meters (390 ft)
1901–1908	Philadelphia City Hall	Philadelphia	167 meters (548 ft)
1908–1909	Singer Building	New York	186.57 meters (612.1 ft)
1909–1913	Metropolitan Life Tower	New York	213.36 meters (700.0 ft)
1913–1930	Woolworth Building	New York	241 meters (791 ft)
1930	Bank of Manhattan Trust Building	New York	283 meters (928 ft)
1930–1931	Chrysler Building*	New York	319.9 meters (1,050 ft)
1931–1971	Empire State Building*	New York	381 meters (1,250 ft)
1971–1973	World Trade Center #1	New York	417 meters (1,368 ft)
1974–1998	Sears Tower	Chicago	442 meters (1,450 ft)
1998–2004	Petronas Towers	Kuala Lumpur	451.9 meters (1,483 ft)
2004–2010	Taipei 101	Taipei	509.2 meters (1,671 ft)
2010–Present	Burj Khalifa*	Dubai	828 meters (2,717 ft)