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Jefferson Standard Building

National Register of Historic Places in Guilford County, North CarolinaOffice buildings completed in 1923Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in North CarolinaSkyscraper office buildings in North CarolinaSkyscrapers in Greensboro, North Carolina
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Jefferson Standard Building, Greensboro, NC
Jefferson Standard Building, Greensboro, NC

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 Until it was superseded by the Nissen Building in Winston-Salem in 1927, it was the tallest building in North Carolina (succeeding the Independence Building in Charlotte) and the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.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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Jefferson Standard Building
West Market Street, Greensboro

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27401 Greensboro
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