List of tallest buildings in Kansas City, Missouri

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

**Tallest habitable buildings in Kansas City, Missouri**
Rank	Name	Address	Architect	Height feet / m	Floors	Year	Notes
1	One Kansas City Place	1200 Main Street	PBNI Architects	624 / 190^[1]	42	1988	Tallest commercial building in Missouri. Major offices including Evergy (formerly KCPL) headquarters.
2	Town Pavilion	1111 Main Street	HNTB Architecture	591 / 180	38	1986	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	PBNDML Architects	504 / 153	45	1980	Tallest hotel in Missouri; Formerly Hyatt Regency, now Sheraton, in the Crown Center District.
4	Kansas City Power and Light Building	1330 Baltimore Street	Hoit, Price and Barnes	481 / 145	32	1931	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	Hoit, Price and Barnes	470 / 143	35	1932	Formerly a banking building built during the 1930s construction boom.
6	Kansas City City Hall	414 E. 12th Street	Wight and Wight	445 / 136	30	1937	Construction boom of the 1920s–1940s with art deco design, one of the nation's tallest city halls.
7	1201 Walnut	1201 Walnut Street	HNTB Architecture	427 / 130	30	1991	Tallest building in the 1990s.
8	Commerce Tower	909 Main Street	Keene Simpson & Murphy	421 / 128	30	1965	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	Skidmore, Owings and Merrill	404 / 123	30	1977	Tallest KC building built in the 1970s.
10	Oak Tower	324 E. 11th Street	Hoit, Price and Barnes	379 / 116	28	1929	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)	352 / 107	28	1977	Office building in the Crown Center district.
12	Bryant Building	1100 Grand Avenue	Graham, Anderson, Probst & White	352 / 107	26	1931
13	2555 Grand	2555 Grand Avenue	Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership	351 / 107	26	2003	Tallest KC building built in the 2000s.
14	San Francisco Tower	2510 Grand Avenue	The Architects' Collaborative, Cambridge MA Marshall and Brown	342 / 104.5	32	1976	Luxury condominiums in the Crown Center district.
15	Three Light	1477 Main Street	Cordish	301 / 91.6	25	2023
16	Crowne Plaza Hotel	1301 Wyandotte Street	Ralph F. Oberlechner Associates	299 / 91	28	1968
17	AT&T Long Lines Building (Kansas City)	1425 Oak Street		298 / 91	26	1976
18	925 Grand	925 Grand Avenue	Graham, Anderson, Probst & White	299 / 91	21	1921	Converting to hotel
19	Richard Bolling Federal Building	601 E. 12th Street	Voskamp and Slezak; Radotinsky, Meyn and Deardorff; Everett and Keleti; Howard, Tammen and Bergendoff	295 / 90	18	1966
20	Jackson County Courthouse	415 E. 12th Street	Wight and Wight; Keene & Simpson; Frederick C. Gunn	295 / 90	22	1934
21	Charles Evans Whittaker Federal Courthouse	400 E. 9th Street	Ellerbe Becket/ASAI Architects	290 / 88	10	2000
22	Wall Street Tower	1101 W. 11th Street	Harry Weese Associates	288 / 88	20	1974	Converted into residential units in the Financial District.
23	Mark Twain Tower	106 W. 11th Street	Hoit, Price and Barnes	285 / 87	24	1923	Converting to residential and was home to the Playboy Club in 1960s.
24	One Park Place	700 W. 31st Street	Skidmore, Owings and Merrill	280 / 85	20	1963	Condominiums near Union Hill overlooking Downtown.
25	TenMain Center	920 Main Street	Charles Luckman, Los Angeles, CA	272 / 83	20	1968	Former headquarters of AMC Theatres.
26	Two Light Tower	1444 Grand Blvd	Humphreys & Partners Architects LP	270 / 82.29	24	2018	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	265 / 80.7	25	2015	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	260 / 79.3	23	2020	Convention space and luxury hotel with a restaurant and bar overlooking downtown Kansas City.
29	Commerce Trust Building	922 Walnut Street	Jarvis Hunt	258 / 79	20	1906
30	Commerce Bank Building	920 Main Street	Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum	258 / 79	20	1985
31	12 Wyandotte Plaza	12 Wyandotte Street	PBNI Architects	253 / 77	18	1986	Built as part of the master plan anchored by One Kansas City Place.
32	Kansas City Marriott Downtown	200 W 12th Street		250/ 76	22	1985	Situated in the Convention District and nearby Barney Allis Plaza and Municipal Auditorium.
33	1 Memorial Drive	1 Memorial Dr.	Henry N. Cobb, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Ellerbe Becket	250 / 76	16	2008	Home to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and also the Money Museum; situated on Union Hill.
34	Hotel Phillips	106 W. 12th Street	Boillot & Lauck	243 / 73	20	1930
35	The Grand	1125 Grand Boulevard	Thomas E. Stanley	241 / 73	20	1963	Converted to residential, with a new Grand signage.
36	H&R Block World Headquarters	1 H&R Block Way (Oak Street at E. 12th Street)	360 Architecture	236 / 72	17	2006	Sparked the revitalization of the now popular Power & Light District in the mid 2000s.
37 & 38	American Century Investment Towers	4500 Main Street	HKS, Inc.	236 / 72	20	1991-1994	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	231 / 70.7	17	1930	Converted into apartments
40	Kansas City Marriott Hotel Country Club Plaza	4445 Main Street	Peckham Guyton Albers & Viets	229 / 70	18	1986
41	Plaza West	4600 Madison Avenue	HNTB Architecture	225 / 69	17	1986
42	Clubhouse Lofts	128 W. 13th Street	Smith, Rea & Lovitt	217 / 66.29	14	1921
43	21 Ten Lofts	21 W. 10th Street	Wilder & Wight	208.5 / 63.5	15	1914
44	Professional Building	213 East 11th Street	Alexander Company Inc.	206 / 62.79	16	1930
45	UMB Building	928 Grand Boulevard	Hoit & Cutler	200 / 60.96	16	1907

Other structures

**Other tall structures in Kansas City, Missouri**
Rank	Building	Address	Architect	Height feet / m	Floors	Year	Notes
—	KCTV Tower ^[2]	129 E. 31st Street		956 / 291 1042 / 318	Tower with antenna	1956
—	Kansas City Convention Center pylons^[3]	301 W. 13th St	BNIM Architects Convention Center Associates, Architects	360 / 110	Tip of pylons	1994	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^[4]	100 W. 26th Street	Harold Van Buren Magonigle	264 / 81 217 / 66	Tower	1926	It is nationally recognized as the official memorial for World War I.
—	KCI Air Traffic Control Tower^[5]	Kansas City International Airport		250 / 76		1996

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
New York Life Insurance Building	20 W. Ninth Street	McKim, Mead, and White	1890–1906	180 / 55	12
Commerce Trust Building	922 Walnut Street	Jarvis Hunt	1906–1921	258 / 79	17
Historic Federal Reserve Bank	925 Grand Avenue	Graham, Anderson, Probst & White	1921–1929	298 / 91	16
Oak Tower	324 E. 11th Street	Hoit, Price and Barnes	1929–1931	379 / 116	28
Kansas City Power and Light Building	1330 Baltimore Street	Hoit, Price and Barnes	1931–1980	476 / 145	34
Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center	2345 McGee Street	PBNDML Architects	1980–1986	504 / 154	40
Town Pavilion	1111 Main Street	HNTB Architecture	1986–1988	591 / 180	38
One Kansas City Place	1200 Main Street	PBNI Architects	1988–present	624 / 198	42

References

^ "One Kansas City Place". Emporis. Archived from the original on August 7, 2011.
^ "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"^[usurped], Emporis, retrieved July 23, 2008.

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

[1] "One Kansas City Place". Emporis. Archived from the original on August 7, 2011.

[2] "KCTV5's Tall Tower" Archived 2011-05-19 at the Wayback Machine, KCTV5, retrieved July 19, 2008.

[3] "Bartle Hall Convention Center", SkycraperPage.com, retrieved July 23, 2008.

[4] The National World War One Museum, Virtual Tour, The Liberty Memorial Tower Archived December 30, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, retrieved July 28, 2008.

[5] "KCI Control Tower"^[usurped], Emporis, retrieved July 23, 2008.

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