List of tallest buildings in New Haven

New Haven is a coastal city located in Connecticut. It has 84 buildings over 100 feet tall. Its tallest building is the Connecticut Financial Center which stands at 383 feet.

The New Haven skyline as seen from Lighthouse Point Park in 2007 before the completion of 360 State Street

Tallest buildings

These are the tallest buildings in New Haven, Connecticut.

Rank	Name	Image	Height ft (m)	Floors	Year	Notes
1	Connecticut Financial Center		383 (117)	26	1990	Currently, the sixth-tallest building in Connecticut; fourth-tallest in the state upon completion in 1990.[1]
2	360 State Street		338 (103)	31	2010	Second largest apartment building in Connecticut after Park Tower Stamford.[2]
3	Knights of Columbus Building		321 (98)	23	1969	World headquarters of the Knights of Columbus designed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates.
4	One Century Tower		280 (85)	19	1990	Designed by Cesar Pelli & Associates[3]
5	New Haven Savings Bank Tower		271 (83)	18	1974
6	Kline Tower		250 (76)	16	1966	59th-tallest educational building in the world.
7	Yale New Haven Hospital Smilow Cancer Center		237 (72)	13	2008
8	The Eli (formerly the SNET Building)		231 (70)	17	1938	Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
9	Union and New Haven Trust Building		231 (70)	13	1927	Now known as The Union
10	St. Mary's Church		230 (70)	1	1874	Tallest church in New Haven.
11	Crown Towers		222 (68)	22	1967	Tallest residential building in New Haven until the completion of 360 State Street.
12	100 College Street		205 (62)	13	2015
13	Harkness Tower		216 (66)	9	1921	Tallest clock tower in the city. Third tallest building in the Yale university campus.
14	Center Court Apartments		215 (66)	13	1916
15	Frontier (formerly SBC) Building		213 (65)	10	1955
16	Long Wharf Maritime Center I		209 (63)	15	1985
17	Swensen Tower		208 (63)	14	1932	Formerly known as The Hall of Graduate Studies.[4]
18	Tower One		206 (62)	21	1971	Also known as the Jewish Community Council Tower.[5]
19	Omni New Haven Hotel		208 (63)	19	1966	Tallest hotel in New Haven and the fourth-tallest hotel in Connecticut.[6]
20	New Haven Children’s Hospital		201 (61)	10	1993
21	Payne Whitney Gymnasium		199 (60)	16	1932	Second largest gymnasium in the world.[7]
22	Bass Tower		196 (58)		2017	Part of the Pauli Murray college.
23	101 College Street		187 (56)	10	2023
24	Taft Apartments		185 (56)	12	1911
25	Center Church On The Green		184 (56)	1	1812	Tallest of the three churches on the green. A crypt lies underneath the church.[8]
26	Bella Vista Building E		183 (55)	19	1973	Tallest building in the Bella Vista complex.
27	One Church Street		183 (55)	8	1961	Houses the Consulate Of Ecuador.[9]
28	Madison Towers		183 (55)	17	1963
29	234 Church Street		181 (55)	15	1972
30	Bella Vista Building D		180 (54)	19	1973
31	900 Chapel Street		179 (54)	13	1966
32	Bella Vista Building C		173 (52)	17	1973
33	University Towers		170 (51)	17	1960
34	300 George Street		170 (51)	10	1960
35	Bella Vista Building A		169 (51)	17	1973
36	Bella Vista Building B		168 (51)	17	1973
37	Lippard Laboratory of Clinical Investigation		167 (50)	11	1965
38	Sheffield Sterling Strathcona Hall		166 (50)	10	1932
39	Yale New Haven Hospital East Pavilion		165 (50)	12	1953	Also referred to as 20 York Street.[10]
40	54 Meadow Street		159 (48)	9	1946	Renovated in the late 1980s.[11] Also referred to as the Gateway Center.[12]
41	Anlyan Center For Medical Research And Education		158 (48)	7	2003
42	Sterling Memorial Library		157 (47)	15	1930
43	235 Church Street		156 (47)	9	1973	Known as the New Haven County Courthouse.[13]
44	New Haven City Hall		152 (46)	4	1862	Listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1975.[14]
45	George Crawford Manor		150 (45)	15	1966	Listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2015.[15]
46	Pierson Tower		150 (45)	4	1933	Morse College Residential Tower is seen on the far left. 120 ft (36 meters) tall when excluding the spire.
47	Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church		147 (44)	1	1890
48	Trinity Lutheran Church		144 (43)	1	1871
49	Edith Johnson Towers		143 (43)	14	1972	Also referred to as 114 Bristol Street.[16]
50	Clinic Building		143 (43)	6	1932
51	United Church on the Green		137 (41)	1	1816
52	Tower East		135 (41)	13	1982
53	Whitney Grove Square		135 (41)	8	1986
54	Temple Square Apartments		135 (41)	4	1939
55	Saint Michael's Church		134 (40)	1	1904
56	Edward S. Harkness Memorial Hall		132 (40)	11	1955
57	St. Joseph Catholic Church		132 (40)	1	1905	Yellow brick Romanesque church
58	Morse College Residential Tower		131 (40)	13	1962
59	Charles Bingham Hall		131 (40)	9	1928
60	Pilgrim Congregational Church		131 (40)	1	1900
61	Yale New Haven Hospital South Pavilion		129 (39)	6	1982
62	129 Church Street		129 (39)	8	1919
63	Trinity Church on the Green		129 (39)	1	1814	Gothic church designed by Ithiel Town.[17]
64	60 Temple Street		128 (39)	9	1977
65	Long Wharf Maritime Center II		127 (38)	9	1988
66	55 Church Street		126 (38)	9	1974
67	First and Summerfield United Methodist Church		126 (38)	1	1849
68	St. Paul & St. James Episcopal Church		125 (38)	1	1830
69	Yale School of Public Health		123 (37)	8	1964	Located at 60 College Street.[18]
70	Phelps Hall		122 (37)	6	1896
71	Saint Stanislaus Catholic Church		122 (37)	1	1913
72	New Haven Hotel		117 (35)	7	1989
73	44 Orange Street		116 (35)	10	1993
74	Hotel Marcel		116 (35)	7	1970	Formerly was the headquarters for the Armstrong Rubber Company. One of the most famous brutalist buildings in the city along with the Crawford Manor. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2021.[19] Converted into a hotel in 2022.[20]
75	Saybrook College Tower		116 (35)	7	1917
76	Christ Church		114 (34)	1	1898	Listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2009.[21]
77	Liberty Building		114 (34)	7	1901
78	Schwarzman Center		113 (34)	4	1901
79	William T. Rowe Apartments		112 (34)	9	2011
80	Robert N. Giaimo Federal Building		112 (34)	6	1978
81	Charles T. McQueeney Apartments		111 (33)	10	1975
82	Battell Chapel		111 (33)	1	1876
83	55 Park Street		110 (33)	6	2010
84	University Theater, Yale School of Drama		110 (33)		1926

Timeline of tallest buildings

This lists buildings that once held the title of tallest building in New Haven, Connecticut.

Name	Image	Street address	Years as tallest	Height ft (m)	Floors
Union and New Haven Trust Building		205 Church Street	1927–1938	231 (70)	13
The Eli (formerly the SNET Building)		227 Church Street	1938–1966	231 (70)	17
Kline Tower		219 Prospect Street	1966–1969	251 (76)	16
Knights of Columbus Building		One Columbus Plaza	1969–1990	322 (98)	23
Connecticut Financial Center		157 Church Street	1990–present	383 (117)	26

Tallest under construction, approved and proposed

This list (currently empty) ranks tall buildings that are under construction, approved for construction or proposed for construction in New Haven.

Name	Height* ft (m)	Floors*	Year* (est.)	Status	Notes

* Table entries with dashes (—) indicate that information regarding building heights, floor counts, or dates of completion has not yet been released.