<p>The height of One World Trade Center has purpose. The tower, raised at the northwest corner of the 16-acre World Trade Center site, stretching upwards to 1,776 feet, representing the year of the United States Declaration of Independence. Completed in 2014—13 years after the devastation of Sept. 11, 2001—the Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merrill-designed skyscraper reaches 104 stories tall with puts it in the world's top six tallest, counting the pinnacle spire. Without the spire, the building stands 1,368 feet tall. In honor of the original World Trade Center towers, the base of the new tower measures the same as the old towers at 200 feet square.</p>