List of tallest buildings in Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City has a diverse variety of tall buildings. Like many other large U.S. cities, it has an 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 Bartle Hall Pylons.
Downtown Kansas City skyline, looking northwest
Tallest habitable buildings
| Rank | Name | Address | Architect(s) | Height feet / m |
Floors | Year | Notes | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One Kansas City Place | 1200 Main Street | PBNI Architects | Tallest habitable building in Missouri |  | |||
| 2 | Town Pavilion (formerly AT&T Town Pavilion) | 1111 Main Street | HNTB Architecture |  | ||||
| 3 | Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center (formerly Hyatt Regency Kansas City and Hyatt Regency Crown Center) | 2345 McGee Street | PBNDML Architects | Tallest Hotel in State; Has more floors than any other building in the city |  | |||
| 4 | Kansas City Power and Light Building | 1330 Baltimore Street | Hoit, Price and Barnes | Converted to residential |  | |||
| 5 | 909 Walnut (formerly Fidelity National Bank & Trust Building) | 909 Walnut Street | Hoit, Price and Barnes | Tallest residential in Midwest outside Chicago |  | |||
| 6 | Kansas City City Hall | 414 E. 12th Street | Wight and Wight |  | ||||
| 7 | 1201 Walnut | 1201 Walnut Street | HNTB Architecture |  | ||||
| 8 | Commerce Tower | 909 Main Street | Keene Simpson & Murphy | Top 20 floors converted to residential |  | |||
| 9 | City Center Square | 1100 Main Street | Skidmore, Owings and Merrill |  | ||||
| 10 | Oak Tower (formerly Southwestern Bell Building) | 324 E. 11th Street | Hoit, Price and Barnes |  | ||||
| 11 | 2345 Grand (formerly IBM Plaza) | 2345 Grand Avenue | Fujikawa Conterato Lohan & Assoc. (office of Mies van der Rohe) |  | ||||
| 12 | Bryant Building | 1100 Grand Avenue | Graham, Anderson, Probst & White |  | ||||
| 13 | 2555 Grand | 2555 Grand Avenue | Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership |  | ||||
| 14 | San Francisco Tower | 2510 Grand Avenue | The Architects' Collaborative, Cambridge MA Marshall and Brown | Condos |  | |||
| 15 | Crowne Plaza Hotel (opened as Holiday Inn) | 1301 Wyandotte Street | Ralph F. Oberlechner Associates |  | ||||
| 16 | AT&T Long Lines Building (Kansas City) | 1425 Oak Street |  | |||||
| 17 | 925 Grand | 925 Grand Avenue | Graham, Anderson, Probst & White | Converting to hotel |  | |||
| 18 | Richard Bolling Federal Building | 601 E. 12th Street | Voskamp and Slezak; Radotinsky, Meyn and Deardorff; Everett and Keleti; Howard, Tammen and Bergendoff |  | ||||
| 19 | Jackson County Courthouse | 415 E. 12th Street | Wight and Wight; Keene & Simpson; Frederick C. Gunn |  | ||||
| 20 | Charles Evans Whittaker Federal Courthouse | 400 E. 9th Street | Ellerbe Becket/ASAI Architects |  | ||||
| 21 | WallStreet Tower (formerly Mercantile Bank) | 106 W. 11th Street | Harry Weese Associates | Now condos |  | |||
| 22 | Mark Twain Tower | 106 W. 11th Street | Hoit, Price and Barnes | Converting to Residential; was home to the Playboy Club in 1960s |  | |||
| 23 | One Park Place (formerly BMA Tower) | 298 W. 31st Street | Skidmore, Owings and Merrill | Condos |  | |||
| 24 | TenMain Center | 920 Main Street | [Charles Luckman, Los Angeles, CA |  | ||||
| 25 | Two Light Tower | 1444 Grand Blvd | Humphreys & Partners Architects LP | Apartments | ||||
| 26 | One Light Tower | 50 East 13th Street | Humphreys & Partners Architects LP | Apartments | ||||
| 27 | Loews Convention Hotel | 1515 Wyandotte Street | Cooper Carry | Hotel |  | |||
| 28 | Commerce Trust Building | 922 Walnut Street | Jarvis Hunt |  | ||||
| 29 | Commerce Bank Building | 920 Main Street | Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum |  | ||||
| 30 | 12 Wyandotte Plaza | 12 Wyandotte Street | PBNI Architects |  | ||||
| 31 | Kansas City Marriott Downtown | 200 W 12th Street |
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| 32 | 1 Memorial Drive | 1 Memorial Drive (at Main Street) | Henry N. Cobb, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Ellerbe Becket |  | ||||
| 33 | Hotel Phillips | 106 W. 12th Street | Boillot & Lauck |  | ||||
| 34 | The Grand (formerly Traders on Grand) | 1125 Grand Boulevard | Thomas E. Stanley |  | ||||
| 35 | H&R Block World Headquarters | 1 H&R Block Way (Oak Street at E. 12th Street) | 360 Architecture |  | ||||
| 36 & 37 | American Century Towers I & II | 4500 Main Street | HKS, Inc. |  | ||||
| 38 | 1006 Grand Boulevard Apartments | Kansas City, Missouri 64106 | Sherman Associates | Residential |  1006 Grand | |||
| 39 | Kansas City Marriott Hotel Country Club Plaza | 4445 Main Street | Peckham Guyton Albers & Viets |  | ||||
| 40 | Plaza West | 4600 Madison Avenue | HNTB Architecture |  | ||||
| 41 | Clubhouse Lofts | 128 W. 13th Street | Smith, Rea & Lovitt | Residential | ||||
| 42 | 21 Ten Lofts | 21 W. 10th Street | Wilder & Wight | |||||
| 43 | Professional Building | 213 East 11th Street | Alexander Company Inc. | |||||
| 44 | UMB Building | 928 Grand Boulevard | Hoit & Cutler | |||||
Other tall structures
| Rank | Building | Address | Architect(s) | Height feet / m |
Floors | Year | Notes | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | KCTV Tower (and antenna)[2] | 129 E. 31st Street | 1042 / 318 | Tower with antenna |  | |||
| — | 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 |  | ||
| — | Liberty Memorial[4] | 100 W. 26th Street | Harold Van Buren Magonigle | 217 / 66 | Total tower-only |  | ||
| — | KCI Air Traffic Control Tower[5] | Kansas City International Airport |  | |||||
Buildings proposed / under construction / envisioned
Under Construction
| Three Light Tower | 34 (332–380 ft) | Pre-Construction. Permits Filed (begins by 4th quarter 2020) | Fall 2023 | Residential | It will be the tallest expressly residential building yet built in the Kansas City area |
| Waddell & Reed HQ | 18 (260 ft.) | Under Construction | 2022 | Office | |
| 1300 Wyandotte Office Tower | 14 (190 ft.) | Pre-Construction. Plans Submitted (begins Q4 2019) | Late 2021 | Office | |
| 46 Penn Centre | 14 (est. 150–60 ft) | Topped off | 2020 | Office | |
| 900 Broadway Hyatt Home Hotel | 13 | On Hold | Est. late 2021-22 | Hotel |
Approved and Current Proposals
| Strata | 25 (est. 280 ft.) | Approved (First half 2021) | 2023 | Office | Incentives approved, now in pre-construction phase |
| 47Madison | 15 | Approved | TBD | Residential | On Hold |
| Four Light Tower | 33-35 | Proposed | TBD | Residential/Hotel | 2020s - May Include LIVE! or W Hotel and Condominiums |
| River Market Epoch Complex (Hotel Portion) | 12 | Proposed | 2021 | Hotel | In The Works - On Hold Because of Red Tape |
| Crown Center Office Tower | 20-30 | Proposed | 2022-2023 | Office | Crown Center - General Contractors Interviewed Fall 2019 |
Envisioned and Cancelled
| 13th and Grand Blvd Tower | 25–30 | Envisioned | TBD | Office | Copaken Brooks Proposal |
| 1034 Main | 30–40 | Envisioned | 2021 | Office | Copaken Brooks Proposal |
| Cordish Hotel Tower | TBD | Envisioned | TBD | Hotel | Likely Axed For Strata |
| KC 14th Street Tower | TBD | Envisioned | TBD | Multi Use | Aclore Investment Proposal |
| JW Marriott Kansas City | 60 | Envisioned | N/A | Hotel | Cancelled - Loews Built Instead |
| Garmin Landmark Tower | 53 | Envisioned | N/A | Office | Cancelled - Olathe HQ Expanded |
| Burns & McDonnell Square | 45 | Envisioned | N/A | Office | Cancelled - Ward Parkway HQ Expanded Instead |
| Crossroads Residential Tower | 20-24 | Envisioned | 2021-2022 | Residential | Cancelled - 16th & Main |
| Hotel Bravo! | 13 | Envisioned | 2020 | Hotel | Dead - TIF Request Denied |
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 |
Floors | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York Life Insurance Building | 20 W. Ninth Street | McKim, Mead, and White | 1890–1906 | 180 / 55 | ||
| Commerce Trust Building | 922 Walnut Street | Jarvis Hunt | 1906–1921 | 258 / 79 | ||
| Historic Federal Reserve Bank | 925 Grand Avenue | Graham, Anderson, Probst & White | 1921–1929 | 298 / 91 | ||
| Oak Tower | 324 E. 11th Street | Hoit, Price and Barnes | 1929–1931 | 379 / 116 | ||
| Kansas City Power and Light Building | 1330 Baltimore Street | Hoit, Price and Barnes | 1931–1977 | 476 / 145 | ||
| 2345 Grand (formerly IBM Plaza) | 2345 Grand Avenue | Fujikawa Conterato Lohan & Assoc. (office of Mies van der Rohe) | 1977–1980 | 477 / 145 | ||
| Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center | 2345 McGee Street | PBNDML Architects | 1980–1986 | 504 / 154 | ||
| Town Pavilion | 1111 Main Street | HNTB Architecture | 1986–1988 | 591 / 180 | ||
| One Kansas City Place | 1200 Main Street | PBNI Architects | 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.
- "One Kansas City Place". Emporis.
- "KCTV5's Tall Tower" Archived 2011-05-19 at the Wayback Machine, KCTV5, retrieved July 19, 2008.
- "Bartle Hall Convention Center", SkycraperPage.com, retrieved July 23, 2008.
- The National World War One Museum, Virtual Tour, The Liberty Memorial Tower Archived December 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, retrieved July 28, 2008.
- "KCI Control Tower", Emporis, retrieved July 23, 2008.
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