List of tallest buildings in Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Cambridge skyline in April 2021.

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County in eastern Massachusetts, United States. Located on the northern shore of the Charles River, it is also a major suburb of Boston, the state capitol and regional financial center. It has a population of 118,403 (2020) and a growing number of high-rise buildings.

Tallest buildings and structures

This list ranks Cambridge buildings that stand at least 200 feet (61 m) tall, based on height measurement criteria established by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) and Emporis.com. This includes spires and architectural details but does not include antenna masts, roof top signs, flag poles or other functional-technical equipment. An equals sign (=) following a rank indicates the same height between two or more buildings. The "Year" column indicates the year in which a building was completed. Freestanding towers, guyed masts and other not habitable structures are included for comparison purposes; however, they are not ranked.

Rank	Name	Image	Height ft (m)	Floors	Year	Architect	Address	Notes	Ref.
01.01	Graduate Tower at Site 4		315 ft (96 m)	29	2020	Perkins&Will	45 Hayward Street	Tallest building in Cambridge since April 2, 2019.	[1] [2]
2	Akamai Technologies Global Headquarters		297 ft (91 m)	20	2019	Pickard Chilton	145 Broadway		[3] [4]
3	Boston Marriott Cambridge		290 ft (88 m)	26	1988	Moshe Safdie & Associates	2 Cambridge Center, Area 2/MIT	Tallest building built in the 1980s.	[5] [6]
4	Google Cambridge		288.5 ft (87.9 m)	16	2023	Pickard Chilton Architects with Stantec	325 Main Street	Part of MXD II.	[7] [8] [9]
—	WJIB radio tower		285 ft (87 m)	N/A	1948		Neighborhood Nine	Mast radiator for WJIB and supports its FM translator, W267CE.	[10]
5	Proto Kendall Square (Ames Street Residences)		284 ft (87 m)	22	2018	FXCollaborative	88 Ames Street		[11] [12]
6	MIT Kendall Square Site 5 (Building E28)		280 ft (85 m)	18	2021	Perkins&Will	314 Main Street		[13]
7=	Avalon North Point		277 ft (84 m)	22	2008	CBT Architects	1 Leighton Street, Cambridge Crossing	Residential	[14]
7=	Cecil and Ida Green Center for Earth Sciences (Green Building)		277 ft (84 m)	21	1964	I.M. Pei & Partners	Area 2/MIT	Height to tip - 312 ft (95 m) with radar dome.	[15] [16] [17] [18] [19]
9	ONE65 Main (Kendall Square at MIT - Site 1)		275 ft (84 m)	25	2022	Elkus Manfredi Architects	165 Main Street East Cambridge	300 residential units plus retail "to serve families of all sizes" [20]	[21] [20] [22]
10	Riverfront Office Park		270 ft (82 m)	18	1983; renovated 2012		101 Main St., East Cambridge	The taller of two interconnected towers	[23] [24] [25]
11=	Rindge Towers I		269 ft (82 m) (est.)	22	1970		North Cambridge		[26]
11=	Rindge Towers II		269 ft (82 m) (est.)	22	1970		North Cambridge		[27]
11=	Rindge Towers III		269 ft (82 m) (est.)	22	1970		North Cambridge		[28]
14	Stanley Building (The Broad Institute)		264 ft (80 m)	15	2014	Elkus Manfredi Architects	75 Ames Street		[29]
15	Watermark Kendall West		262 ft (80 m) (est.)	24 [30]	2006	David Nagahiro of CBT	350 Third Street, Area 2/MIT		[31] [ better source needed ] [32] [33] [34]
16	Park 151		252 ft (77 m)	20	2022		151 N First Street, Cambridge Crossing	Height to tip - 270 ft (82 m)	[35] [36]
17	Cambridge Crossing Parcel E/F		250 ft (76 m)	21	2020		250 Water Street, Cambridge Crossing	Life science and technology building
18	Tang Residence Hall		248 ft (76 m)	24	1972	The Stubbins Associates	550 Memorial Drive; Area 2/MIT		[37] [38]
19	1010 Memorial Drive		240 ft (73 m)	20	1965 [39]		West Cambridge		[40] [39]
20	Twenty20		237 ft (72 m)	20	2015	CBT Architects	20 Child Street, East Cambridge	Residential	[41]
21	MIT Kendall Square SoMa Site 3 Building		235 ft (72 m)	14	2022	McNamara • Salvia	238 Main Street		[42]
22=	Regatta Riverview Residences 1		234 ft (71 m)	24	1998	Eisenburg Haven Architects	10 Museum Way, East Cambridge	Also called Museum Towers.	[43] [44]
22=	Regatta Riverview Residences 2		234 ft (71 m)	24	1998	Eisenburg Haven Architects	12 Museum Way, East Cambridge	Also called Museum Towers.	[45] [46]
24	One Broadway		230 ft (70 m)	17	1970		East Cambridge		[47] [48]
25=	Peabody Terrace Apartments I		226.85 ft (69.14 m)	22	1964		Riverside		[49] [50]
25=	Peabody Terrace Apartments II		226.85 ft (69.14 m)	22	1964		Riverside		[49] [51]
25=	Peabody Terrace Apartments III		226.85 ft (69.14 m)	22	1964		Riverside		[49] [52]
28	808 Memorial Drive		224 ft (68 m)	20	1975		Cambridgeport		[53] [54]
29=	929 Mass Apartments		220.32 ft (67.15 m)	18	1976		Mid-Cambridge		[55]
29=	Mather House		220.32 ft (67.15 m) (est.)	18	1970		10 Cowperthwaite Street, Riverside	Harvard student residences.	[56]
31	Cambridge Crossing Parcel G	Under construction in January 2021	220 ft (67 m)	14	2022	Perkins&Will	350 Water Street, Cambridge Crossing	Residential, Retail, & Office	Photos
32	William James Hall		215 ft (66 m) (est.)	15	1963		Baldwin		[57]
33	Riverfront Office Park		210 ft (64 m)	14	1987; renovated 2012		101 Main Street, East Cambridge	The shorter of two interconnected towers	[58] [59]
34	One Memorial Drive		208 ft (63 m) (est.)	17	1986		Area 2/MIT		[60]
34	Market Central Apartments		207 ft (63 m)	19	2020		425 Massachusetts Ave, Central Square	Formerly known as Mass+Main.	[61]
36	100		205 ft (62 m)	18	2005		100 Landsdowne Street, Cambridgeport		[62]
37	Frank J. Manning Apartments		204 ft (62 m)	19	1976		237 Franklin Street, Cambridgeport		[63]

Under construction or renovation

Name	Image	Height ft (m)	Floors	Year	Architect	Address	Notes	Ref.
40 Thorndike Street (Edward J. Sullivan Courthouse Renovation)		unknown	20	in progress	Elkus Manfredi Architects	40 Thorndike Street, East Cambridge	Residential/Office. This project is a renovation and will replace Edward J. Sullivan Courthouse	[64] [65]
MXD Residential Building South		400 ft (120 m)	37	2021		121 Broadway, East Cambridge	Site prep began in early 2023. Height does not include mechanical penthouse.	[66]
MIT SoMa Building 2	Construction site in August 2024	240 ft (73 m)	13 [67] or 14	TBD	Elkus Manfredi Architects	200 Main Street, Area 2/MIT	Parking garage, commercial laboratory, office spaces, and retail. [67]	[68] [69] [67]

Tallest approved or proposed

This section lists high-rise buildings that are approved or proposed in Cambridge and planned to be at least 200 feet (61 m) tall, but are not yet under construction. In 2015, Leland Cheung of the Cambridge City Council contemplated the maximum rezoning of the area in terms of building heights, and asked if buildings of up to 1,000 feet (305 m) could be considered in the future. A height of 1,000 feet would be over 200 feet taller than the tallest building in the metro-Boston area: the John Hancock Tower. ^{[70] [71]}

Name	Height ft (m)	Floors	Year	Coordinates	Neighborhood	Status	Notes	Ref.
Volpe Redevelopment MIT	500 ft (150 m)	50	2022		East Cambridge	Proposed	Would be the tallest building in Massachusetts outside of Boston once completed.	[72]
585 Third St	292.5 ft (89.2 m)	16	2021		East Cambridge	Proposed		[73]

Demolished

Name	Image	Height ft (m)	Floors	Year	Architect	Address	Notes	Ref.
Eastgate Married Student Housing		277 ft (84 m)	30	1967	Eduardo Catalano	30 Wadsworth Street	Closed 2020; [74] demolished 2022 [75]	[76]

See also

• List of tallest buildings in Boston
• List of tallest buildings in Springfield, Massachusetts
• List of tallest buildings in Worcester, Massachusetts
• List of tallest buildings in Massachusetts, exclusive of Boston

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External links

• The Skyscraper Center - Cambridge
• The Skyscraper Center - CTBUH Height Criteria
• Emporis.com - Cambridge ^[usurped]
• Emporis.com - height (ESN 15705 ) ^[usurped]
• Structurae.net - Cambridge
• Skyscraper Source Media - Cambridge
• Cambridge.gov - Planning Board