Pan American Life Center, Office high-rise in Central Business District, New Orleans, United States

The Pan-American Life Building at 601 Poydras Street is a 28-story tower rising 322 feet (98 m) in New Orleans' Central Business District. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed it, and it was built in 1980. Its block is bounded by Poydras Street to the north, Gravier Street to the south, St. Charles Avenue to the east and Camp Street to the west, and the InterContinental Hotel adjoins it.

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed the 28-story tower, completed in 1980 as the headquarters of the Pan-American Life Insurance Co. Pan-American sold it to the California firm Equastone in December 2006, keeping the adjoining InterContinental Hotel. In December 2010, Stirling 601 Poydras, LLC, a group of local investors led by Stirling Properties, bought the building from Equastone.

The Pan-American Life Insurance Co. commissioned the tower as its headquarters, and the company's name remains on the 1980 building. The adjoining InterContinental Hotel was kept by the insurer when the tower was sold to Equastone in December 2006, so hotel and offices passed into separate ownership.

The tower occupies the block bounded by Poydras Street to the north, Gravier Street to the south, St. Charles Avenue to the east and Camp Street to the west, so it can be circled on foot from any of the four sides. The InterContinental Hotel adjoins the building, and the St. Charles Avenue streetcar line runs along the eastern edge of the block.

The Hotel InterContinental adjoins the tower and was owned by Pan-American Life, but it was not part of the December 2006 sale to Equastone. The insurance company kept the hotel while the office tower changed hands.