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.
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Downtown Kansas City skyline, looking northwest
Tallest habitable buildings
Rank | Name | Address | Architect(s) | Height feet / m |
Floors | Year | Notes | Image |
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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 | ![]() | |||||
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 |
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— | 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 | 32 (332–370 ft) | Pre-Construction. Permits Filed (begins by 3rd-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 | |
Reverb Tower | 14 (156 ft) | Topped off | Summer 2020 | Residential/Retail | |
46 Penn Centre | 14 (est. 150–60 ft) | Topped off | 2020 | Office | |
900 Broadway Hyatt Home Hotel | 13 | Under construction | Est. Fall 2020-Winter 2021 | Hotel | |
Children's Mercy Research Institute | 12 (est. 180 ft.) | Topped off | 2020 | Clinical research |
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
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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 |
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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. Archived December 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- "KCI Control Tower", Emporis, retrieved July 23, 2008.
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