JPMorgan Chase Tower (Houston)
skyscraper at 600 Travis Street in downtown Houston, Texas, USA
The JPMorgan Chase Tower, formerly Texas Commerce Tower, is a 1,002-foot (305.4-meter), 2,243,013-square-foot (208,382.7 m2), 75-story skyscraper at 600 Travis Street in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States. It is the second tallest building in Texas, the tallest five-sided building in the world, the 29th-tallest building in the United States, and the 107th-tallest building in the world.
Overview
Originally completed in 1981 as Texas Commerce Tower and commissioned by Texas Commerce Bancshares, the skyscraper attains a height of 1002 feet with 75 floors. Overlooking United Energy Plaza located on Capitol Avenue and Milam Street, it features the Joan Miro sculpture, Personage and Birds. A terrace on the plaza includes a water garden. Khalid bin Mahfouz was a co-developer of the building, part of which occupied the former Uptown Theatre, demolished in 1965.
Upon its completion, the building surpassed Aon Center in Los Angeles to become the tallest building in the United States west of the Mississippi River, a title it held until Los Angeles's Library Tower, now known as the U.S. Bank Tower, was built in 1989.
The JPMorgan Chase Tower held the record for "Tallest Building in Texas" longer than any other building in history. It was the tallest building in the state from its topping out in 1981 all the way until Waterline Austin's top out in 2025, making JPMorgan the tallest in the state for 44 years.
JPMorgan Chase Tower is connected to the Houston Downtown Tunnel System.
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