Jacksonville's 10 Tallest Buildings, Ranked: From 220 to 617 Feet

Jacksonville, Fla. - Jacksonville's tallest building is the Bank of America Tower, at 50 N. Laura St. It stands 617 feet (188.1 meters) with 42 floors, according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), the international group that keeps the official height records for tall buildings. It was completed in 1990, and no Jacksonville building has topped it since.

CTBUH's Skyscraper Center database lists 10 completed buildings in Jacksonville. Two are taller than 150 meters (492 feet), the line CTBUH uses for its city rankings. The oldest two on the list date from 1926, and the newest from 2006.

Jacksonville's 10 tallest buildings

Source: CTBUH Skyscraper Center, reviewed Oct. 24, 2026. Heights are "architectural" heights, measured to the top of the building including spires but not antennas.

No. 1: Bank of America Tower, 617 feet

• Address: 50 N. Laura St.
• Completed: 1990
• Also known as: Barnett Center, NationsBank Tower

Jacksonville's tallest building has carried three bank names: Barnett Center, then NationsBank Tower, and now Bank of America Tower. It's the only Jacksonville building taller than 600 feet.

No. 2: Modis Tower, 535 feet

• Address: 1 Independent Drive
• Completed: 1975
• Also known as: Independent Life & Accident Insurance Company Building, Independent Square, Accustaff Building

CTBUH lists Modis Tower as Jacksonville's first building taller than 150 meters. It was the city's tallest for 15 years, until the Bank of America Tower opened in 1990.

No. 3: The Peninsula, 437 feet

• Address: 1357 Riverplace Blvd.
• Completed: 2006

The tallest residential building in Jacksonville stands on the Southbank. It's one of two condo towers there that finished in 2006, along with The Strand.

No. 4: AT&T Tower, 435 feet

• Address: 301 W. Bay St.
• Completed: 1983
• Also known as: Southern Bell Telephone Building

Built for Southern Bell, the AT&T Tower is just 2 feet shorter than The Peninsula.

No. 5: Riverplace Tower, 432 feet

• Address: 1301 Riverplace Blvd.
• Completed: 1967
• Also known as: Gulf Life Insurance Company Tower, SouthTrust Building

The oldest building in the top five, Riverplace Tower, was built as the Gulf Life Insurance Company's tower on the Southbank.

No. 6: Jacksonville Center, 357 feet

• Address: 76 S. Laura St.
• Completed: 1989
• Also known as: SunTrust Building, American Heritage Life Building, Humana Building

No. 7: The Strand, 317 feet

• Address: 1401 Riverplace Blvd.
• Completed: 2006
• Also known as: The Strand at St. Johns Center

No. 8: The Plaza Condominium at Berkman Plaza and Marina, 260 feet

• Address: 400 E. Bay St.
• Completed: 2002
• Also known as: The Plaza One, Berkman Plaza

No. 9: Barnett National Bank Building, 224 feet

• Address: 112 W. Adams St.
• Completed: 1926

One of the two oldest buildings on the list. CTBUH lists it as an all-steel building that now combines offices, education and housing.

No. 10: 11 East Forsyth, 220 feet

• Address: 11 E. Forsyth St.
• Completed: 1926
• Also known as: Lynch Building, American Heritage Life Building

Like the Barnett building, it went up in 1926, during the Florida land boom, a generation after the Great Fire of 1901 cleared downtown. It's now residential.

What about other tall buildings?

Jacksonville has other buildings of about this size that aren't in CTBUH's database, including some on the Southbank and in the San Marco area. Their heights are often estimates rather than surveyed measurements, so we left them off this list. If CTBUH adds a verified height, we'll update the ranking.

CTBUH has also reported on proposed towers taller than anything in the city today, including a planned 720-foot condo building downtown. None appears in CTBUH.s list of completed Jacksonville buildings.

Quick answers

What is the tallest building in Jacksonville?
The Bank of America Tower, 617 feet, completed in 1990.

How many Jacksonville buildings are taller than 150 meters (492 feet)?
Two: the Bank of America Tower and Modis Tower.

What's the tallest residential building in Jacksonville?
The Peninsula, 437 feet, on the Southbank.

What's the oldest building among the tallest?
The Barnett National Bank Building and 11 East Forsyth, both completed in 1926.

How we did this

Jax Times rebuilt this ranking on Oct. 24, 2026, from the CTBUH Skyscraper Center. Every height, floor count, completion year, use and former name comes from its Jacksonville building records. Feet are converted from CTBUH's official meter measurements.

An earlier version of this story ranked 23 buildings using Wikipedia's list, which includes heights estimated from Google Earth. We cut the ranking to the 10 buildings CTBUH has measured.