Milwaukee #8: U.S. Bank Tower

777 East Wisconsin Avenue

The U.S. Bank Tower is the tall white building in the center. At the time this picture was taken, it was still called FirStar Center.

At 42 stories and 601 feet tall, the U.S. Bank Tower is the tallest building in Wisconsin. It was originally completed in 1973 as First Wisconsin Center. It was later known as FirStar Center, and still referred to as such by many Milwaukeeans. The building has 1.4 million square feet of floor space, 5000 windows and contains seven million pounds of travertine marble.

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