Jefferson Standard Building
The Jefferson Standard Building is a 374 ft (114m) skyscraper in Greensboro, North Carolina. It was completed in 1923 as the headquarters for Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co. (now known as Lincoln Financial Group) and has 18 floors. Until it was superseded by the Nissen Building in Winston-Salem in 1927, it was the tallest building in North Carolina (succeeding the Independence Building in Charlotte) and the tallest building between Washington, D.C., and Atlanta, Georgia. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Jefferson Standard Building | |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
The building in 2019 | |
| Location | Elm and Market Sts., Greensboro, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 36°4′22″N 79°47′32″W |
| Built | 1922 |
| Architect | Hartmann, Charles C. |
| Architectural style | Romanesque, Skyscraper |
| NRHP reference No. | 76001326 |
| Added to NRHP | May 28, 1976 |
A 20-story addition first known as the Jefferson-Pilot Building and later the Lincoln Financial Building was finished in 1990.
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