555 California Street

Former Bank of America headquarters in the Financial District, 237 m tall, once the tallest building west of the Mississippi.

This 52-story tower in the heart of San Francisco's Financial District was the tallest building west of the Mississippi River from its completion in 1969 until 1972. Designed in a sober postwar modernist style with brutalist undertones, it served for decades as the global headquarters of Bank of America — until the 1998 merger with NationsBank moved operations to Charlotte. Today the building is co-owned by Vornado Realty Trust and The Trump Organization. Its distinctive dark polished-granite facade continues to define the skyline of the banking district.