List of tallest buildings in Fort Worth facts for kids

The Fort Worth skyline as viewed from the west

Fort Worth is a big city in Texas, and it's home to many tall buildings! It's the 5th largest city in Texas. Imagine looking up and seeing 50 buildings that are super tall, with 21 of them standing taller than a 20-story building!

The very tallest building in Fort Worth is called the Burnett Plaza. It has 40 floors and reaches a height of 567 feet (about 173 meters). It was finished in 1983. The second tallest is the Bank of America Tower, which is 547 feet tall (about 167 meters). Even with all these tall buildings, none of them are among the 30 tallest in the whole state of Texas.

Fort Worth started building skyscrapers a long time ago. The first tall one was the 7-story Flatiron Building, built in 1907. It was the tallest in North Texas back then! After that, taller buildings kept popping up. In the 1920s and 1930s, Fort Worth had a big building boom. The Farmers and Mechanics National Bank building became the tallest.

Then, in 1957, the 30-story Landmark Tower took the top spot. From the early 1970s to the mid-1980s, Fort Worth had its biggest building boom ever! That's when the Burnett Plaza was built in 1983, becoming the tallest building. It has stayed the tallest ever since!

Fort Worth skyline viewed from the west, across the Trinity River

Fort Worth's Tallest Buildings

This list shows the tallest buildings in Fort Worth that are already finished or almost finished. We measure their height from the ground to the very top, including any spires or cool designs, but not antennas. The "Year" column tells you when the building was completed.

Rank	Name	Image	Height ft (m)	Floors	Year	Fun Facts
1	Burnett Plaza		567 (173)	40	1983	This building has been the tallest in Fort Worth since 1983. It's the tallest office building in the city.
2	Bank of America Tower		547 (167)	38	1984	It was designed to look like a "twin" to the Wells Fargo Tower, but it's a bit taller!
3	777 Main Street		525 (160)	40	1983	This building has had a few different names over the years.
4	The Fort Worth Tower		488 (148)	35	1974	This is the tallest building where people live in Fort Worth. It was made taller after a tornado in 2000.
5	Wells Fargo Tower		477 (145)	33	1982	This building was the tallest in Fort Worth just before Burnett Plaza was built. It's the "twin" building to the Bank of America Tower, but it's shorter.
6	Omni Fort Worth Hotel		447 (136)	33	2009	This is the tallest building in Fort Worth built in the 2000s. It's a "mixed-use" building, meaning it has different types of spaces inside, like hotel rooms and other businesses.
7	Frost Bank Tower	—	368 (112)	25	2018
8	AT&T Building		343 (105)	17	1958	This building has a spire on top.
9	Fort Worth City Hall (New)		324 (99)	20	2004	This building used to be the headquarters for Pier 1 Imports, a furniture store. The City of Fort Worth bought it in 2021 to be its new city hall.
10	714 Main		307 (94)	16	1922	This building was the tallest in Fort Worth before the Landmark Tower was built. It's listed on the National Register of Historic Places, which means it's an important historical building.
11	Bank of America Center		300 (91)	21	1961	It's also known as the First National Bank Building.
12	Blackstone Hotel		268 (82)	20	1929	This is the tallest hotel building in the city. It was fixed up in 1999 after being empty for over ten years.
13	River Tower	—	267 (81)	23	2017	This building is also called the Trinity Terrace.
14	Commerce Building		260 (79)	19	1930	Part of this building is built into the next-door Oil and Gas Building.
15	Two Tandy Center		258 (79)	20	1978	There are plans to turn this building into homes.
16	One Tandy Center		247 (75)	19	1976	This building is also planned to be turned into homes. It's the shorter building of the Charles D. Tandy Center.
17	The Carnegie	—	236 (72)	16	2008	This is one of the newer office buildings in the city.
18	Oncor Building		234 (71)	16	1952	It's also known as the Electric Service Building.
19	W. T. Waggoner Building		230 (70)	20	1920	This building was the tallest in Fort Worth before 714 Main. It's also on the National Register of Historic Places.
20	Electric Building		229 (70)	18	1930	It was updated and redesigned in 1996. It's also on the National Register of Historic Places.
21	Petroleum Building		228 (69)	14	1927	This building was also updated in 1969. It's on the National Register of Historic Places.
22	Sinclair Building		212 (65)	16	1930	It was updated in 1990. It's on the National Register of Historic Places.
	Pioneer Tower		208 (63)	1	1936	This is the tallest structure in Fort Worth that's not in the downtown area.
23	Tarrant County Corrections Center		203 (62)	13	1990	This is the tallest building used as a jail in the city.

Buildings That Were Once Tall

This list shows tall buildings in Fort Worth that were completed but have since been taken down.

Timeline of Tallest Buildings

This list shows which buildings held the title of "tallest building in Fort Worth" over time.

Name	Image	Street address	Years as tallest	Height ft / m	Floors
Tarrant County Courthouse		100 East Weatherford Street	1895–1920	194 (59)	5
W. T. Waggoner Building		810 Houston Street	1920–1921	230 (70)	20
714 Main		714 Main Street	1921–1957	307 (94)	16
Landmark Tower		200 West 7th Street	1957-1974	380 (116)	30
The Fort Worth Tower		500 Throckmorton Street	1974-1982	454 (138)	35
Wells Fargo Tower		201 Main Street	1982-1983	477 (145)	33
Burnett Plaza		801 Cherry Street	1983–present	567 (173)	40

See also

• List of tallest buildings in Texas
• List of tallest buildings in Dallas
• List of tallest buildings in Houston