The height of the minimum floor-to-floor for early 80's office construction (~12'-8") + the top 3 floors (a couple of feet taller) + lobby renders ~542' for Exchange Place.... careful surveying indicates 540~542' making those beautiful walls of glass the 10th tallest tower in Boston (you can take it to the bank).
There's a fascist wiki moderator that requires an act of Congress to change the official height. i offered the precise floor-to-floor minutia and the political reasons that caused the floors containing mechanical equipment never to be added into the final (actual) height of the tower.... plus the ~730 other such examples of mechanical floors being left off tower heights in Boston....
The White administration never gave the mechanical floor-added height/s for Exchange Place because of the "tesoro" built environment put under shadow.... It became such a hot political issue at the time -- that Raymond Flynn decreed that no tower would ever breach past 400' (or was it 450') again in our lifetimes.... For obvious reasons, the Flynn administration decided to let sleeping dogs lie (not reporting the abysmal thing was actually taller). This explains why Exchange Place's "fake height" persists....
Flynn's promise that a tallish tower would never ever again be built in Boston caused a lot of trouble for Don Chiofaro and Intl Place.... *After about 30 months of bloody trench warfare, Flynn was finally persuaded to make an allowance for IP, as the shadow impact was fairly minimal.
floors 2-38 = ~494'
Lobby 22'
floors 39/40 ~30'
roof fascia at 40th floor ~5'
top mechanical floor ~16'
#Stop internet fascism and building height non-truth in our time.
