Jefferson Standard Building

The Jefferson Standard Building is a 374 ft skyscraper in Greensboro, North Carolina. It was completed in 1923 as the headquarters for Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co. 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 Until it was superseded by the Nissen Building in Winston-Salem in 1927, it was the tallest building in North Carolina and the tallest building between Washington, D.C. and Atlanta, Georgia. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.A 20-story addition first known as the Jefferson-Pilot Building and later the Lincoln Financial Building was finished in 1990.