List of tallest buildings in Rochester, Minnesota
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Rochester, Minnesota has some of the tallest buildings for a city of its size, including the Broadway Plaza, which upon completion was the tallest residential building in a U.S. city with a metro area of less than 200,000.[1]
Tallest buildings
[edit]| Rank | Name | Image | Height ft / (m) |
Floors (Stories) | Year Completed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadway Plaza | 342 / 104 | 29 | 2004 | |
| 2 | Gonda Building | 305 / 93 | 21 | 2001 | |
| 3 | Plummer Building | 298 / 91 | 19 | 1928 | |
| 4 | Mayo Building | 295 / 90 | 20 | 1955, expanded 1970 | |
| 5 | Hilton Rochester Mayo Clinic | 295 / 81 | 20 | 2019 | |
| 6 | Guggenheim Building | 258 / 78 | 21 | 1974 | |
| 7 | Siebens Building | 220 / 67 | 14 | 1989 | |
| 8 | Stabile Building | 211 / 64 | 13 | 2006 | |
| 9 | Center Plaza (Hotel Indigo) | 190 / 58 | 16 | 1969, renovated 2019 | |
| 10 | Kellen Building | 174 / 53 | 11 | 2023 | |
| 11 | Eisenberg Building | 169 / 52 | 12 | 1966 | |
| 12 | The Berkman | 168 / 52 | 13 | 2020 | |
| 13 | Charlton Building | 163 / 50 | 10 | ||
| 14 | The Kahler Grand Hotel | 154 / 47 | 12 | 1921 | |
| 15 | Minnesota Bio Business Center | 130 / 40 | 8 | 2009 |
Buildings with Unknown Heights
[edit]| Rank | Name | Image | Floors (Stories) | Year Completed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charter House | 290 ft | 22 | 1984 | |
| 2 | Fontaine Towers | 17 | 1984 | ||
| 3 | Park Towers | 16 | 1973 | ||
| 4 | Central Towers | 14 | 1987 | ||
| 5 | Rochester Towers | 13 | 1966 | ||
| 6 | Madonna Towers | 12 | 1967 | ||
| 7 | DoubleTree Hotel | 11 | 1989 | ||
| 8 | St. Mary's Hospital | 11 | 1889-2019 (near continuous construction, future additions planned) | ||
| 9 | Rochester Marriott Mayo Clinic | 9 | 1989 | ||
| 10 | US Bank Building | 9 | 1989 | ||
| 11 | Kahler Inn & Suites | 9 | 1979 | ||
| 12 | Condominiums of Buena Vista | 9 | |||
| 13 | Best Western Soldiers Tower | 8 | 1988 | ||
| 14 | Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center | 7 | 2014 |
Tallest under construction, approved, and proposed
[edit]| Citywalk Apartments | 12 | 2023 | Proposed |
| Civic on First Hyatt | 9 | 2020 | Under Construction |
| Waterman Building | 9 | 2030 | Under Construction. 9 story building, 221 feet tall upon completion, with capacity to be expanded to 420 feet in future expansions.[2] |
| The 324 Apartments | 6 | 2020 | Under construction |
| Minnesota BioBusiness Center Phase II | 14 | TBA | planned |
Tallest cancelled
[edit]| Name | Height ft / m |
Floors | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rochester Time Square | 425 / 130 | 35 | 1998 | Originally approved in 2000, but the Broadway Plaza was later preferred by the city council.[3] |
| CommonBond Tower | 160 / 48 | 14 | 2023 | 8 Story residential originally planned atop 6 levels of parking. Parking garage completed in 2019. The residential portion was cancelled after being found insufficiently structurally supported by existing parking component[4] |
Sources
[edit]- "Rochester". Emporis. Archived from the original on February 10, 2007.
- ^ "Broadway Plaza | Buildings | EMPORIS". Emporis. Retrieved February 2, 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ "Foster + Partners and CannonDesign selected to design transformative healthcare project for Mayo Clinic". 2023.
- ^ "Time Square | Buildings". Rochester /: Emporis. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ "Ramp woes threaten Rochester apartments". finance-commerce.com.