Out of curiosity, how old is your rural town where you live? And how old is the tallest building? In a huge amount of US small towns, the largest downtown buil

Out of curiosity, how old is your rural town where you live? And how old is the tallest building? In a huge amount of US small towns, the largest downtown buildings in most of them, forming the economic core of that town, are also some of the oldest, and it would be illegal today to build the buildings around which those towns revolve. It was true in NY and Pennsylvania when I lived in that area, and it's true here in Oregon.