Wells Fargo Plaza (Houston)

Wells Fargo Plaza
General information
Status	Completed
Type	Office
Location	1000 Louisiana Street Houston, Texas, United States
Coordinates	29°45′30″N 95°22′06″W / 29.7584396°N 95.3682630°W / 29.7584396; -95.3682630
Completed	1982; 42 years ago (1982)
Opening	1983; 41 years ago (1983)
Height
Roof	302.4 m (992 ft)[1]
Technical details
Floor count	71[1]
Floor area	170,362 m2 (1,833,760 sq ft)[1]
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Richard Keating of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, also Lloyd Jones Brewer & Associates
Developer	Century Development Management[1]
Website
wellsfargoplaza.com/home.axis
References
[1]

The Wells Fargo Plaza, formerly the Allied Bank Plaza and First Interstate Bank Plaza, is a skyscraper located at 1000 Louisiana Street in Downtown Houston, Texas in the United States.

This building is currently the 20th-tallest Building in the United States, the second tallest building in Texas and Houston, after Houston's JPMorgan Chase Tower, and the tallest all-glass building in the Western Hemisphere.^[2] It is the tallest building named for Wells Fargo.^{[citation needed]}

From street level, the building is 302.4 meters (992 ft) tall and contains 71 floors. It extends four more stories below street level.^[3] Only the Wells Fargo Plaza offers direct access from the street to the Houston tunnel system (a series of underground walkways connecting many of downtown Houston's office towers); otherwise, entry points are from street-level stairs, escalators, and elevators located inside buildings that are connected to the tunnel.^[4]

Wells Fargo Plaza features a wide variety of fine amenities for its tenants including The Houstonian Lite Health Club located on the 14th floor.

Sky lobbies on the 34/35th and 58/59th floors are publicly accessible and offer views of Downtown Houston. These sky lobbies are served by double-decker elevators and primarily serve as transfer floors to local elevators.

The entrance of the skyscraper appears in the final scene of 1989 American thriller film Cohen and Tate (also known as "Cohen & Tate")