The Hampshire Plaza, located at 1000 Elm Street, Manchester, New Hampshire

Manchester, New Hampshire

Manchester is the largest city in the U.S. state of New Hampshire, the tenth largest city in New England, and the largest city in northern New England, an area comprising the states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. It is in Hillsborough County along the banks of the Merrimack River, which...

, is a 259 feet (78.9 m), 20-story high-rise. From its completion in 1972 until the completion of the 275 feet (83.8 m) One City Hall Plaza

City Hall Plaza (Manchester)

City Hall Plaza, located at 900 Elm Street is a prominent office tower in Manchester, New Hampshire. Since its completion in 1992, City Hall Plaza has been the tallest building in the city of Manchester, the state of New Hampshire, and all New England cities north of Cambridge, Massachusetts...

 at 900 Elm Street, it was the tallest building in the U.S. state of New Hampshire

New Hampshire

New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...

. The building is recognizable as a box-shaped structure, with black tinted windows and black architectural features.

Hampshire Plaza has an urban mall attached, which has a single story of offices and storefronts and an indoor parking garage with several levels underneath. Hampshire Plaza is also attached by a skybridge

Skybridge

Skybridge may refer to:* an alternate term for skyway.* The bridge named Skybridge in Vancouver, Canada.* The bridge named Skye Bridge in Britain.* The bridge named Langkawi Sky Bridge in Malaysia.* The Skybridge Building in Chicago, United States....

 to an indoor parking garage on an adjacent block. The high-rise was originally built by Public Service Company of New Hampshire (PSNH), the electric company that serves most of New Hampshire (now a subsidiary of Northeast Utilities

Northeast Utilities

Northeast Utilities is a publicly-traded, Fortune 500 energy company headquartered in Berlin, Connecticut, with several regulated subsidiaries offering retail electricity and natural gas service to more than 2.1 million customers in New England....

).