List of tallest buildings in Kansas City, Missouri

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.

Tallest habitable buildings

**Tallest habitable buildings in Kansas City, Missouri**
Rank	Name	Address	Architect(s)	Height feet / m	Floors	Year	Notes
1	One Kansas City Place	1200 Main Street	PBNI Architects	624 / 197^[1]	42	1988	Tallest habitable building in Missouri
2	Town Pavilion (formerly AT&T Town Pavilion)	1111 Main Street	HNTB Architecture	591 / 180	38	1986
3	Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center (formerly Hyatt Regency Crown Center)	2345 McGee Street	PBNDML Architects	504 / 153	45	1980
4	Kansas City Power and Light Building	1330 Baltimore Street	Hoit, Price and Barnes	481 / 145	32	1931	Conversion to residential in progess
5	909 Walnut (formerly Fidelity National Bank & Trust Building)	909 Walnut Street	Hoit, Price and Barnes	470 / 143	35	1932	Tallest residential in Midwest outside Chicago
6	Kansas City City Hall	414 E. 12th Street	Wight and Wight	445 / 136	30	1937
7	1201 Walnut	1201 Walnut Street	HNTB Architecture	427 / 130	30	1991
8	Commerce Tower	909 Main Street	Keene Simpson & Murphy	421 / 128	30	1965	Top 20 floors converting to residential
9	City Center Square	1100 Main Street	Skidmore, Owings and Merrill	404 / 123	30	1977
10	Oak Tower (formerly Southwestern Bell Building)	324 E. 11th Street	Hoit, Price and Barnes	379 / 116	28	1929
11	2345 Grand (formerly IBM Plaza)	2345 Grand Avenue	Fujikawa Conterato Lohan & Assoc. (office of Mies van der Rohe)	352 / 107.3	28	1977
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
14	San Francisco Tower	2510 Grand Avenue	The Architects' Collaborative, Cambridge MA Marshall and Brown	342 / 104.5	32	1976	Condos
15	Crowne Plaza Hotel (opened as Holiday Inn)	1301 Wyandotte Street		299 / 91	28	1968
16	AT&T Long Lines Building (Kansas City)	1425 Oak Street		298 / 91	26	1976
17	925 Grand	925 Grand Avenue	Graham, Anderson, Probst & White	299 / 91	21	1921	Residential
18	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
19	Jackson County Courthouse	415 E. 12th Street	Wight and Wight; Keene & Simpson; Frederick C. Gunn	295 / 90	22	1934
20	Charles Evans Whittaker Federal Courthouse	400 E. 9th Street	Ellerbe Becket/ASAI Architects	290 / 88	10	2000
21	WallStreet Tower (formerly Mercantile Bank)	106 W. 11th Street	Harry Weese Associates	288 / 88	20	1974	Now condos
22	Mark Twain Tower	106 W. 11th Street	Hoit, Price and Barnes	285 / 87	24	1923	Proposed for residential; was home to the Playboy Club in 1960s
23	One Park Place (formerly BMA Tower)	298 W. 31st Street	Skidmore, Owings and Merrill	280 / 85	20	1963	Condos
24	TenMain Center	920 Main Street	[Charles Luckman, Los Angeles, CA	272 / 83	20	1965-1968
25	Commerce Trust Building	922 Walnut Street	Jarvis Hunt	258 / 79	20	1906
26	Commerce Bank Building	920 Main Street	Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum	258 / 79	20	1985
27	12 Wyandotte Plaza	12 Wyandotte Street	PBNI Architects	253 / 77 (est.)	18	1986
28	1 Memorial Drive	1 Memorial Drive (at Main Street)	Henry N. Cobb, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Ellerbe Becket	250 / 76	16	2008
29	One Light Tower	50 East 13th Street	Humphreys & Partners Architects LP	245/74	25	2015	Apartments
30	Hotel Phillips	106 W. 12th Street	Boillot & Lauck	243 / 73	20	1930
31	Traders on Grand	1125 Grand Boulevard	Thomas E. Stanley	241 / 73	20	1963
32	H&R Block World Headquarters	1 H&R Block Way (Oak Street at E. 12th Street)	360 Architecture	236 / 72	17	2006
33 & 34	American Century Towers I & II	4500 Main Street	HKS, Inc.	236 / 72	20	1991 & 1994
35	1006 Grand Boulevard Apartments	Kansas City, Missouri 64106	Sherman Associates	231/ 70.7	17	1930	Residential
36	Kansas City Marriott Hotel Country Club Plaza	4445 Main Street	Peckham Guyton Albers & Viets	229 / 70	18	1986
37	Plaza West	4600 Madison Avenue	HNTB Architecture	225 / 69	17	1986
38	Clubhouse Lofts	128 W. 13th Street	Smith, Rea & Lovitt	217/ 66.29	14	1921	Residential
39	21 Ten Lofts	21 W. 10th Street	Wilder & Wight	208.5/ 63.5	15	1914
40	Professional Building	213 East 11th Street	Alexander Company Inc.	206/62.79	16	1930
41	UMB Building	928 Grand Boulevard	Hoit & Cutler	200/60.96	16	1907

Other tall structures

**Other tall structures in Kansas City, Missouri**
Rank	Building	Address	Architect(s)	Height feet / m	Floors	Year
—	KCTV Tower (and antenna)^[2]	129 E. 31st Street		956 / 291 1042 / 318	Tower with antenna	1956
—	Bartle Hall Pylons at Bartle Hall Convention Center^[3]	13th Street, between Broadway Boulevard & Central Street	BNIM Architects Convention Center Associates, Architects	335 / 102 360 / 110	West-pylon with sculpture	1994
—	Liberty Memorial^[4]	100 W. 26th Street	Harold Van Buren Magonigle	264 / 81 217 / 66	Total tower-only	1926
—	KCI Air Traffic Control Tower^[5]	Kansas City International Airport		250 / 76		1996

Buildings proposed / under construction / envisioned

Under construction

Name	Floors	Status	Year estimated	Use
46th and Pennsylvania Tower	12	Under construction	2018	Office
16th & Baltimore Courtyard Marriott	10	Topped off	May 2016	Hotel
Two Light Tower*	24	Under construction	2018	Residential

Announced, approved and current proposals

Name	Floors	Status	Year estimated	Use
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

Name	Floors	Status	Year Estimated	Use
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	30	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	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	1931–1977	476 / 145	34
2345 Grand (formerly IBM Plaza)	2345 Grand Avenue	Fujikawa Conterato Lohan & Assoc. (office of Mies van der Rohe)	1977–1980	477 / 145	28
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

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.

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