List of tallest buildings in Kansas City, Missouri explained

The list of tallest buildings in Kansas City, Missouri focuses on the boom of higher residential occupancy downtown. The modernization of the skyline includes the Kansas City Power and Light Building, Municipal Auditorium, and the Kansas City Convention Center pylons.

Habitable

+ style="background:Gray; color:white"	Tallest habitable buildings in Kansas City, Missouri
Rank	Name	Address	Architect	Height feet / m	Floors	Year	Notes	Image
1		1200 Main Street					Tallest commercial building in Missouri. Major offices including Evergy (formerly KCPL) headquarters.
2	Town Pavilion	1111 Main Street					Second tallest KC building, completed in 1986, major offices with post-modern elements and a glass façade.
3	Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center	2345 McGee Street					Tallest hotel in Missouri; Formerly Hyatt Regency, now Sheraton, in the Crown Center District.
4		1330 Baltimore Street					Skyline icon for decades with its strong art deco details, tallest building west of the Mississippi from 1931 to 1962.
5	909 Walnut	909 Walnut Street					Formerly a banking building built during the 1930s construction boom.
6		414 E. 12th Street					Construction boom of the 1920s–1940s with art deco design, one of the nation's tallest city halls.
7		1201 Walnut Street					Tallest building in the 1990s.
8		909 Main Street	Keene Simpson & Murphy				Formerly Commerce Bank's Headquarters, the first skyscraper designed by locals, tallest in KC in the 1960s.
9	City Center Square(Lightwell Building)	1100 Main Street					Tallest KC building built in the 1970s.
10	Oak Tower	324 E. 11th Street					Tallest KC building built in the 1920s, a major fiberoptic network hub for Internet services.
11	2345 Grand	2345 Grand Avenue	Fujikawa Conterato Lohan & Assoc. (office of Mies van der Rohe)				Office building in the Crown Center district.
12		1100 Grand Avenue
13	2555 Grand	2555 Grand Avenue					Tallest KC building built in the 2000s.
14	San Francisco Tower	2510 Grand Avenue	The Architects' Collaborative, Cambridge MA Marshall and Brown				Luxury condominiums in the Crown Center district.
15	Three Light	1477 Main Street	Cordish
16	Crowne Plaza Hotel	1301 Wyandotte Street	Ralph F. Oberlechner Associates
17		1425 Oak Street
18		925 Grand Avenue					Converting to hotel
19		601 E. 12th Street
20		415 E. 12th Street	Wight and Wight Keene & Simpson; Frederick C. Gunn
21	Charles Evans Whittaker Federal Courthouse	400 E. 9th Street	Ellerbe Becket/ASAI Architects
22	Wall Street Tower	1101 W. 11th Street	Harry Weese Associates				Converted into residential units in the Financial District.
23	Mark Twain Tower	106 W. 11th Street					Converting to residential and was home to the Playboy Club in 1960s.
24	One Park Place	700 W. 31st Street					Condominiums near Union Hill overlooking Downtown.
25	TenMain Center	920 Main Street	Charles Luckman, Los Angeles, CA				Former headquarters of AMC Theatres.
26	Two Light Tower	1444 Grand Blvd	Humphreys & Partners Architects LP				Phase 2 of the Luxury apartments built in the Power & Light District to attract renters to revitalize the downtown district. Tallest KC building built in the 2010s.
27	One Light Tower	50 East 13th Street	Humphreys & Partners Architects LP				First phase from Cordish & Co. to develop luxury high-rise apartments in the Power & Light District.
28	Loew's Convention Hotel	1515 Wyandotte Street	Cooper Carry				Convention space and luxury hotel with a restaurant and bar overlooking downtown Kansas City.
29		922 Walnut Street
30	Commerce Bank Building	920 Main Street
31	12 Wyandotte Plaza	12 Wyandotte Street					Built as part of the master plan anchored by One Kansas City Place.
32	Kansas City Marriott Downtown	200 W 12th Street					Situated in the Convention District and nearby Barney Allis Plaza and Municipal Auditorium.
33		1 Memorial Dr.					Home to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and also the Money Museum; situated on Union Hill.
34		106 W. 12th Street	Boillot & Lauck
35	The Grand	1125 Grand Boulevard
36	H&R Block World Headquarters	1 H&R Block Way (Oak Street at E. 12th Street)					Sparked the revitalization of the now popular Power & Light District in the mid 2000s.
37 & 38	American Century Investment Towers	4500 Main Street					Built in the 1990s, overlooking the Plaza and J.C. Nichols Fountain. Often illuminated and visible from Midtown or Westport.
39	1006 Grand Boulevard Apartments	Kansas City, Missouri 64106	Sherman Associates				Converted into apartments
40	Kansas City Marriott Hotel Country Club Plaza	4445 Main Street	Peckham Guyton Albers & Viets
41	Plaza West	4600 Madison Avenue
42	Clubhouse Lofts	128 W. 13th Street	Smith, Rea & Lovitt
43	21 Ten Lofts	21 W. 10th Street	Wilder & Wight
44		213 East 11th Street	Alexander Company Inc.
45	UMB Building	928 Grand Boulevard	Hoit & Cutler

Other structures

+ style="background:Gray; color:white"	Other tall structures in Kansas City, Missouri
Rank	Building	Address	Architect	Height feet / m	Floors	Year	Notes	Image
—	KCTV Tower ^[1]	129 E. 31st Street			Tower with antenna
—	Kansas City Convention Center pylons^[2]	301 W. 13th St	BNIM Architects Convention Center Associates, Architects		Tip of pylons		The pylons topped with sculptures were added in 1994 alongside the expansion of the Convention Center, an engineering feat over the downtown freeway loop.
—	Liberty Memorial^[3]	100 W. 26th Street			Tower		It is nationally recognized as the official memorial for World War I.
—	KCI Air Traffic Control Tower^[4]

Timeline

These buildings once held the title of tallest building in Kansas City, Missouri.

Name	Street address	Architect	Years as tallest	Height feet / m	Floors	Reference
	20 W. Ninth Street		1890–1906	180 / 55
	922 Walnut Street		1906–1921	258 / 79
	925 Grand Avenue		1921–1929	298 / 91
	324 E. 11th Street		1929–1931	379 / 116
	1330 Baltimore Street		1931–1980	476 / 145
	2345 McGee Street		1980–1986	504 / 154
	1111 Main Street		1986–1988	591 / 180
	1200 Main Street		1988–present	624 / 198

See also

• List of tallest buildings in Missouri
• Architecture in Kansas City

References

• American Institute of Architects/KC (2000). American Institute of Architects Guide to Kansas City Architecture & Public Art. pp. 21, 23, 25, 26, 29, 30, 32, 36, 47.
• Ehrlich, George (1992). Kansas City, Missouri; An Architectural History, 1826–1990. pp. 197, 201, 161, 187–195, 71, 94–96, 161.

External links

• Emporis.com
• Skyscraperpage.com

Notes and References

1. http://www.kctv5.com/engineering/13506249/detail.html "KCTV5's Tall Tower"
2. http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=587 "Bartle Hall Convention Center"
3. http://www.libertymemorialmuseum.org/display.aspx?pgID=887 The National World War One Museum, Virtual Tour, The Liberty Memorial Tower
4. https://web.archive.org/web/20070308205301/http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=kcicontroltower-kansascity-mo-usa "KCI Control Tower"