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Boston and Seattle
496 ft (151 m)
"In 1913–1915, the architecture firm Peabody and Stearns added the tower to the base. Although Boston at that time had a 125 ft (38 m) height restriction, the Custom House was federally owned and exempt from it. The new tower's 496 ft (151 m) made it the city's tallest." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custom_House_TowerWhile this at one time was the tallest building in New_England, it has long since become like a stump among the taller towers. It would take several decades before Vancouver, in the BC part of Canada would allow any building to rival it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Center , http://skyviewobservatory.com/#/location
https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@47.5980746,-122.3342515,1150a,35y,39.14t/data=!3m1!1e3?expflags=enable_star_based_justifications:true&hl=en
https://www.google.com.ph/maps/place/Sky+View+Observatory+Columbia+Center/@47.5959014,-122.3382119,1874a,35y,38.99t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x7788956a51c230f5!8m2!3d47.6047141!4d-122.3304535?expflags=enable_star_based_justifications:true&hl=en
https://www.google.com.ph/maps/@47.5980746,-122.3342515,1150a,35y,39.14t/data=!3m1!1e3?expflags=enable_star_based_justifications:true&hl=en
https://www.google.com.ph/maps/place/Sky+View+Observatory+Columbia+Center/@47.5959014,-122.3382119,1874a,35y,38.99t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x7788956a51c230f5!8m2!3d47.6047141!4d-122.3304535?expflags=enable_star_based_justifications:true&hl=en
462 ft (141 m)
https://wikimedia.org/L_C_Smith_Building_Seattle_1914.jpeg"Completed in 1914, the 38-story, 462 ft (141 m) tower was among the tallest skyscrapers outside New York City at the time of its completion." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Tower
What had become a stump in Seattle would be among the tallest buildings in Vancouver, BC right into the 21st century.
It would take until 1973 for Vancouver, BC to permit a building to rival Seattle's tallest in 1914.
Vancouver has so many imposed restrictions that it's not allowed to rival the scale of Calgary & especially Seattle.
Halifax,_Nova_Scotia was never allowed or never envisioned to become a big city like Montreal & Boston.
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