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. In the past decade, higher residential occupancy downtown has led to a boom in apartment buildings and hotels to host larger conventions and attract more businesses to the city, which is modernizing the skyline of Kansas City with focuses on contemporary and modernistic designs to planned buildings in the area.

Downtown Kansas City skyline, looking northwest

Tallest habitable buildings

**Tallest habitable buildings in Kansas City, Missouri**
Rank	Name	Address	Architect(s)	Height feet / m	Floors	Year	Notes	Image
1	One Kansas City Place	1200 Main Street	PBNI Architects	624 / 197[1]	42	1988	Tallest commercial-use building in height in the state of Missouri. Major office building and home to Evergy (KCPL) headquarters.	Street view of One Kansas City Place.
2	Town Pavilion	1111 Main Street	HNTB Architecture	591 / 180	38	1986	Second tallest building in Kansas City, completed in 1986 it was another major office building and featured post-modern elements architecturally and a glass facade, initially containing a major retail space in it including Dillard's and others; it has since been primarily office tenant's since then with companies such as Transamerica, and today Bank Of The Midwest which has their sign atop the building.	Street view of Town Pavilion.
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 owned by Sheraton in the Crown Center District.
4	Kansas City Power and Light Building	1330 Baltimore Street	Hoit, Price and Barnes	481 / 145	32	1931	Icon of Kansas City's skyline for decades with its strong art deco details it won several awards for design upon initial completion. It was also the tallest building built west of the Mississippi River from completion in 1931 to 1962. Re-development of Downtown lead to the building being renovated into luxury apartments.
5	909 Walnut	909 Walnut Street	Hoit, Price and Barnes	470 / 143	35	1932	Formerly a banking building built during Kansas City's construction boom of the 1930s. Converted into multiple different uses before being redeveloped into luxury apartments.
6	Kansas City City Hall	414 E. 12th Street	Wight and Wight	445 / 136	30	1937	Built during Kansas City's construction boom from the 1920s–1940s. Features prominent details of art deco design and is one of the nation's tallest city hall's in height. Kansas City's now tallest building One Kansas City Place was designed to be a 1980s modern version of City Hall.
7	1201 Walnut	1201 Walnut Street	HNTB Architecture	427 / 130	30	1991	Tallest building built in Kansas City in the 1990s. Stinson LLC. currently has signage atop the building as it bought the rights back in 2010. They serve as the major tenant for the office building still.
8	Commerce Tower	909 Main Street	Keene Simpson & Murphy	421 / 128	30	1965	Formerly Commerce Bank's Headquarters; it was the first skyscraper designed by Kansas City locals. Redeveloped into residential space. Tallest building built in Kansas City in the 1960s.
9	City Center Square (Lightwell Building)	1100 Main Street	Skidmore, Owings and Merrill	404 / 123	30	1977	Currently being renovated into a more premier business space with retail and food space, working with WeWork to renovate the building being relabeled as the Lightwell Building. Tallest building built in Kansas City in the 1970s.
10	Oak Tower	324 E. 11th Street	Hoit, Price and Barnes	379 / 116	28	1929	Tallest building built in Kansas City in the 1920s. Has historically and still presently a major hub for Kansas City's optic network 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 with a major tenant being the law firm Lathrop GPM.
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 building built in Kansas City 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	Crowne Plaza Hotel	1301 Wyandotte Street	Ralph F. Oberlechner Associates	299 / 91	28	1968		Crowne Plaza Kansas City
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	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	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	Wall Street Tower	106 W. 11th Street	Harry Weese Associates	288 / 88	20	1974	Converted into residential units in the Financial District.
22	Mark Twain Tower	106 W. 11th Street	Hoit, Price and Barnes	285 / 87	24	1923	Converting to Residential; was home to the Playboy Club in 1960s.
23	One Park Place	298 W. 31st Street	Skidmore, Owings and Merrill	280 / 85	20	1963	Condominiums near Union Hill overlooking Downtown.
24	TenMain Center	920 Main Street	[Charles Luckman, Los Angeles, CA	272 / 83	20	1968	Former headquarter location of AMC theaters. TenMain Center	25	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 building built in Kansas City in the 2010s.	Two Light	26	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 popular Power & Light District. Vacancy quickly filled calling for a total of 4 towers eventually to be constructed in the area.	27	Loew's Convention Hotel	1515 Wyandotte Street	Cooper Carry	260 / 79.3	23	2020	Newly constructed large convention space and luxury hotel with a restaurant and bar overlooking downtown Kansas City, also provides connection to Bartle Hall and easy access to the booming Crossroads district nearby.	Taken from corner of 16th and Wyandotte St. in the Crossroads district.
28	Commerce Trust Building	922 Walnut Street	Jarvis Hunt	258 / 79	20	1906
29	Commerce Bank Building	920 Main Street	Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum	258 / 79	20	1985
30	12 Wyandotte Plaza	12 Wyandotte Street	PBNI Architects	253 / 77	18	1986	Constructed as part of the master plan anchored by Kansas City's tallest building One Kansas City Place and the company behind the plan. After this building and One Kansas City Place were constructed, the plans fell through and its major tenant now is Spring Venture Group and U.S. Bank.
31	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 it is a highly rated hotel in Kansas City, the building at night lights up with different designs every night, and the long width of the building makes it very noticeable in the night's skyline.	Marriot Hotel Kansas CIty
32	1 Memorial Drive	1 Memorial Dr.	Henry N. Cobb, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners Ellerbe Becket	250 / 76	16	2008	Home to the Federal Reserve Midwest Branch and also the Money Museum; situated on Union Hill.
33	Hotel Phillips	106 W. 12th Street	Boillot & Lauck	243 / 73	20	1930
34	The Grand	1125 Grand Boulevard	Thomas E. Stanley	241 / 73	20	1963	Recently converted into residential space, with a new Grand signage atop the building.
35	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 and Light District in Kansas City and downtown in the mid 2000s. The modern design with the translucent glass and compliments the other modern buildings being constructed in the neighborhood currently.
36 & 37	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. The double towers are often illuminated and easily visible from Midtown or Westport.
38	1006 Grand Boulevard Apartments	Kansas City, Missouri 64106	Sherman Associates	231 / 70.7	17	1930	Converted into apartment space	1006 Grand
39	Kansas City Marriott Hotel Country Club Plaza	4445 Main Street	Peckham Guyton Albers & Viets	229 / 70	18	1986
40	Plaza West	4600 Madison Avenue	HNTB Architecture	225 / 69	17	1986
41	Clubhouse Lofts	128 W. 13th Street	Smith, Rea & Lovitt	217 / 66.29	14	1921
42	21 Ten Lofts	21 W. 10th Street	Wilder & Wight	208.5 / 63.5	15	1914
43	Professional Building	213 East 11th Street	Alexander Company Inc.	206 / 62.79	16	1930
44	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	Notes
—	KCTV Tower [2]	129 E. 31st Street		956 / 291 1042 / 318	Tower with antenna	1956
—	Bartle Hall Pylons at Bartle Hall Convention Center[3]	301 W. 13th St	BNIM Architects Convention Center Associates, Architects	360 / 110	Tip of Pylon's	1994	The pylons were added in 1994 along-side the expansion of the Convention Center, it proved a difficult engineering feat building these over Kansas City's downtown freeway loop. Art sculptures were placed atop the Pylons and are now iconic figures in Kansas City's Skyline.
—	Liberty Memorial[4]	100 W. 26th Street	Harold Van Buren Magonigle	264 / 81 217 / 66	Tower	1926	The prominent monument is nationally recognized as the official memorial for World War 1 and the fallen soldiers from the conflict. It also has breath-taking views atop the monument overlooking downtown and the nearby Union Station.
—	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
Three Light Tower	25 (300.5 ft)	Pre-Construction. Permits Filed	Late 2024	Residential
Waddell & Reed Headquarters	18 (260 ft.)	Foundation and Framework currently taking place.	2022	Office
1300 Wyandotte Office Tower	14 (190 ft.)	Pre-Construction. Plans Submitted (begins Q4 2019)	Late 2021	Office
900 Broadway Hyatt Home Hotel	13 (est.120-140ft.)	On hold; TBD	Est. late 2021-22	Hotel

Approved and Current Proposals

Name	Floors	Status	Year estimated	Use	Notes
Strata	25 (est. 280 ft.)	Approved (First half 2021)	2023	Office	Incentives approved, now in pre-construction phase
47Madison	17	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

Name	Floors	Status	Year Estimated	Use	Details
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
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. 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.

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External links

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[1] "One Kansas City Place". Emporis.

[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", Emporis, retrieved July 23, 2008.