What was the tallest building in the world until the Eiffel tower was built?
In 1896, New York’s American Surety Building took the title for tallest building. By that time, Gustave Eiffel had also built his 984-foot tower in the center of Paris. Though it was an engineering marvel, the tallest man-made structure in the world, it was not technically a building, and so New York kept the record.
