MKE Tall Buildings

Milwaukee, Wisconsin Tallest Buildings

Edited by John December / Updated: 2024-06-13 / More Info: johndecember.com/mke

These are tall buildings in Milwaukee sorted by tallest to shortest in terms of architectural height.

Tall buildings are not the only component of a healthy urban landscape, but when placed and designed well, tall buildings do triple duty by: (1) making the best environmental use of scarce urban land, (2) powering economic activity and compact, walkable urbanism, particularly when paired with transit-oriented development, and (3) generating revenue supportive of the entire city. Tall buildings reflect land value and provide benefits by translating that land value into residences, offices, commercial activities, retail, destinations, and jobs. Tall buildings can be an environmentally sound component of city development. (See: my essay regarding tall buildings and development.)

Milwaukee is home to the tallest buildings in the State of Wisconsin. Madison's tallest building is the Wisconsin State Capitol at 284 feet (86 meters), completed 1917. Green Bay's tallest building is the Bellin Building at 98 feet (30 meters), completed 1915.

In the listing, I provide a numerical rank for buildings over 200 feet (60 meters) tall because I had complete set of data on the heights of those buildings in the emporis.com database (which, unfortunately, has been discontinued). Buildings under 200' (60 m) tall and over 100' (30 m) tall are listed where known, but because I do not have a complete listing of those buildings, I do not include a numerical ranking.

The heights shown are rounded to the nearest foot and tenth of a meter.

The link on the name of the building takes you to official information or a Web page about the building.

You can also look at a table of tall buildings along The Hop streetcar route.

Data Sources: structurae.net, emporis.com database (which was discontinued), skyscraperpage.com, Wikipedia.org, HighRises.com, skyscrapercenter.com, SkyDB, Urban Milwaukee, local media, and observations along the route.