List of tallest buildings in Kansas City, Missouri
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Downtown Kansas City skyline, looking northwest
Kansas City is a diverse city, not only with regard to its culture, but also its skyscrapers. Like most other large U.S. cities, it has an eclectic mixture of old and new structures. Many buildings incorporate art deco details in a number of ways, as exhibited by the Kansas City Power and Light Building, Municipal Auditorium, and the recent Bartle Hall Pylons.
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Tallest habitable buildings
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| 1 | One Kansas City Place | 1200 Main Street | PBNI Architects |
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Tallest building in Missouri |
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| 2 | Town Pavilion (formerly AT&T Town Pavilion) |
1111 Main Street | HNTB Architecture |
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| 3 | Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center (formerly Hyatt Regency Crown Center) |
2345 McGee Street | PBNDML Architects |
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| 4 | Kansas City Power and Light Building | 1330 Baltimore Street | Hoit, Price and Barnes |
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| 5 | 909 Walnut (formerly Fidelity National Bank & Trust Building) |
909 Walnut Street | Hoit, Price and Barnes |
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| 6 | Kansas City City Hall | 414 E. 12th Street | Wight and Wight |
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| 7 | 1201 Walnut | 1201 Walnut Street | HNTB Architecture |
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| 8 | Commerce Tower | 909 Main Street | Keene Simpson & Murphy |
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| 9 | City Center Square | 1100 Main Street | Skidmore, Owings and Merrill |
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| 10 | Oak Tower (formerly Southwestern Bell Building) |
324 E. 11th Street | Hoit, Price and Barnes |
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| 11 | 2345 Grand (formerly IBM Plaza) |
2345 Grand Avenue | Fujikawa Conterato Lohan & Assoc. (office of Mies van der Rohe) |
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| 12 | Bryant Building | 1100 Grand Avenue | Graham, Anderson, Probst & White |
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| 13 | 2555 Grand | 2555 Grand Avenue | Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership |
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| 14 | San Francisco Tower | 2510 Grand Avenue | The Architects' Collaborative, Cambridge MA Marshall and Brown |
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| 15 | Crowne Plaza Hotel (opened as Holiday Inn) |
1301 Wyandotte Street |
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| 16 | AT&T Long Lines Building (Kansas City) | 1425 Oak Street |
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| 17 | 925 Grand | 925 Grand Avenue | Graham, Anderson, Probst & White |
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| 18 | Richard Bolling Federal Building | 601 E. 12th Street | Voskamp and Slezak; Radotinsky, Meyn and Deardorff; Everett and Keleti; Howard, Tammen and Bergendoff |
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| 19 | Jackson County Courthouse | 415 E. 12th Street | Wight and Wight; Keene & Simpson; Frederick C. Gunn |
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| 20 | Charles Evans Whittaker Federal Courthouse | 400 E. 9th Street | Ellerbe Becket/ASAI Architects |
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| 21 | WallStreet Tower (formerly Mercantile Bank) |
106 W. 11th Street | Harry Weese Associates |
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Now condos |
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| 22 | Mark Twain Tower | 106 W. 11th Street | Hoit, Price and Barnes |
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Proposed for residential; was home to the Playboy Club in 1960s |
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| 23 | One Park Place (formerly BMA Tower) |
298 W. 31st Street | Skidmore, Owings and Merrill |
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| 24 | TenMain Center | 920 Main Street | [Charles Luckman, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 25 | Commerce Trust Building | 922 Walnut Street | Jarvis Hunt |
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| 26 | Commerce Bank Building | 920 Main Street | Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum |
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| 27 | 12 Wyandotte Plaza | 12 Wyandotte Street | PBNI Architects |
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| 28 | 1 Memorial Drive | 1 Memorial Drive (at Main Street) |
Henry N. Cobb, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Ellerbe Becket |
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| 29 | One Light Tower | 50 East 13th Street | Humphreys & Partners Architects LP |
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| 30 | Hotel Phillips | 106 W. 12th Street | Boillot & Lauck |
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| 31 | Traders on Grand | 1125 Grand Boulevard | Thomas E. Stanley |
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| 32 | H&R Block World Headquarters | 1 H&R Block Way (Oak Street at E. 12th Street) |
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| 33 & 34 | American Century Towers I & II | 4500 Main Street | HKS, Inc. |
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| 35 | 1006 Grand Boulevard Apartments | Kansas City, Missouri 64106 | Sherman Associates |
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| 36 | Kansas City Marriott Hotel Country Club Plaza | 4445 Main Street | Peckham Guyton Albers & Viets |
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| 37 | Plaza West | 4600 Madison Avenue | HNTB Architecture |
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| 38 | Clubhouse Lofts | 128 W. 13th Street | Smith, Rea & Lovitt |
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| 39 | 21 Ten Lofts | 21 W. 10th Street | Wilder & Wight |
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| 40 | Professional Building | 213 East 11th Street | Alexander Company Inc. |
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| 41 | UMB Building | 928 Grand Boulevard | Hoit & Cutler |
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Other tall structures
| Rank | Building | Address | Architect(s) | Height feet / m |
Floors | Year | Notes | Image |
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| — | KCTV Tower (and antenna)[2] | 129 E. 31st Street |
1042 / 318 |
Tower with antenna |
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| — | Bartle Hall Pylons at Bartle Hall Convention Center[3] |
13th Street, between Broadway Boulevard & Central Street |
BNIM Architects Convention Center Associates, Architects |
360 / 110 |
West-pylon with sculpture |
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| — | Liberty Memorial[4] | 100 W. 26th Street | Harold Van Buren Magonigle |
217 / 66 |
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| — | KCI Air Traffic Control Tower[5] | Kansas City International Airport |
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Buildings proposed / under construction / envisioned
Under construction
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| 46th and Pennsylvania Tower | 12 | Under construction | 2018 | Office |
| 16th & Baltimore Courtyard Marriott | 10 | Topped off | May 2016 | Hotel |
| Two Light Tower* | 24 | Ground broken | 2018 | Residential |
Announced, approved and current proposals
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| Convention Center Hotel | 30 | Approved | 2018-19 | Hotel |
| Arterra 21 | 12 | Approved (groundbreaking August 2016) | 2017 | Apartments/retail |
| Three Light Tower | 24-26 | Proposed | TBD | Residential |
| Four Light Tower | 24-30 | Proposed | TBD | Residential |
| 13th and Grand Blvd Tower | 25-30 | Proposed | TBD | Office |
Envisioned and past proposals
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| Cerner Fountain Plaza | 90 | Envisioned | N/A | Office |
| JW Marriott Kansas City | 60 | Envisioned | N/A | Hotel |
| Garmin Landmark Tower | 53 | Envisioned | N/A | Office |
| Burns & McDonnell Square | 45 | Envisioned | N/A | Office |
| 1034 Main | 40 | Envisioned | N/A | Office |
| GSA Headquarters | 28 | Proposed | N/A | Office |
| 2800 Grand * | 26 | Envisioned | N/A | Office |
| Union Hill Village Tower | 24 | Envisioned | N/A | Residential |
| Promenade Place | 22 | Proposed | N/A | Office |
| P&L District Housing 2 * | 18 | Proposed | N/A | Residential |
| 9th and Jefferson * | 18 | Envisioned | N/A | Office |
| Power and Light Condos | 18 | Proposed | N/A | Residential |
| P&L District Housing 3 * | 18 | Proposed | N/A | Residential |
| 7th and Pennsylvania * | 17 | Envisioned | N/A | Office |
| Savoy Hotel Expansion | 12 | Envisioned | N/A | Hotel |
| American Century Expansion | 13 | Envisioned | N/A | Office |
| 2700 Grand Twr 1 | 13 | Envisioned | N/A | Office |
| 2700 Grand Twr 2 | 13 | Envisioned | N/A | Office |
| Plaza West Tower II | 12 | Envisioned | N/A | Office |
| P&L District Housing IV | 11 | Proposed | N/A | Residential |
| 14th and Baltimore * | 10 | Envisioned | N/A | Office |
| H&R Block Tower II | 10 | Proposed | N/A | Office |
- Asterisk-True heights not known, estimated from renderings
Timeline of tallest buildings
The New York Life Insurance Building, completed in 1890, was the first multi-story highrise building in Kansas City.
This lists buildings that once held the title of tallest building in Kansas City, Missouri.
| Name | Street address | Architect(s) | Years as tallest | Height feet / m |
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| New York Life Insurance Building | 20 W. Ninth Street | McKim, Mead, and White | 1890–1906 | 180 / 55 |
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| Commerce Trust Building | 922 Walnut Street | Jarvis Hunt | 1906–1921 | 258 / 79 |
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| Historic Federal Reserve Bank | 925 Grand Avenue | Graham, Anderson, Probst & White | 1921–1929 | 298 / 91 |
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| Oak Tower | 324 E. 11th Street | Hoit, Price and Barnes | 1929–1931 | 379 / 116 |
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| Kansas City Power and Light Building | 1330 Baltimore Street | Hoit, Price and Barnes | 1931–1977 | 476 / 145 |
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| 2345 Grand (formerly IBM Plaza) | 2345 Grand Avenue | Fujikawa Conterato Lohan & Assoc. (office of Mies van der Rohe) |
1977–1980 | 477 / 145 |
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| Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center | 2345 McGee Street | PBNDML Architects | 1980–1986 | 504 / 154 |
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| Town Pavilion | 1111 Main Street | HNTB Architecture | 1986–1988 | 591 / 180 |
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| One Kansas City Place | 1200 Main Street | PBNI Architects | 1988–present | 624 / 198 |
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See also
References
- American Institute of Architects/KC (2000). American Institute of Architects Guide to Kansas City Architecture & Public Art. Retrieved August 17, 2007, pp. 21, 23, 25, 26, 29, 30, 32, 36, 47.
- Ehrlich, George (1992). Kansas City, Missouri; An Architectural History, 1826-1990. Retrieved August 17, 2007, pp. 197, 201, 161, 187-195, 71, 94-96, 161.
- ↑ http://www.emporis.com/application/?nav=building&lng=3&id=121883
- ↑ KCTV5.com, KCTV5's Tall Tower, downloaded 19 July 2008.
- ↑ SkycraperPage.com, Bartle Hall Convention Center, downloaded 23 July 2008.
- ↑ The National World War One Museum, Virtual Tour, The Liberty Memorial Tower, downloaded 28 July 2008.
- ↑ Emporis, KCI Control Tower, downloaded 23 July 2008.
