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Kansas City, Missouri's first highrise is the New York Life Insurance Building, completed in 1890. It has twelve floors at a height of 180 feet (55 m) and is the first local building with elevators. After the New York Life Building was completed, Kansas City followed the national trend of constructing a plethora of buildings above ten stories.
Hoit, Price & Barnes was a prominent Kansas City architectural firm in the early 20th century. It designed several skyscrapers and mansions including three of the current ten tallest buildings in Kansas City; the Kansas City Power and Light Building, 909 Walnut, and Oak Tower.
Nelson Atkins Museum (before the 2007 remodeling) Wight and Wight, known also as Wight & Wight, was an architecture firm in Kansas City, Missouri consisting of the brothers Thomas Wight (September 17, 1874 – October 6, 1949) [1] and William Wight (January 22, 1882 – October 29, 1947) [2] who designed several landmark buildings in Missouri and Kansas.
Country Club Plaza in Kansas City Philbrook. Edward Buehler Delk (1885–1956) was a prominent architect who designed many landmark buildings in the Midwest and Southwest regions of the United States. Delk was born on September 22, 1885, in Schoharie, New York. He graduated from University of Pennsylvania in 1907.
American Institute of Architects Guide to Kansas City Architecture & Public Art. pp. 21 ... (1992). Kansas City, Missouri; An Architectural History, 1826–1990 ...
The named partners were architects Arthur Samuel Keene FAIA (1875–1966) and Leslie Butler Simpson AIA (1885–1961). ... In 1901 he moved to Kansas City, ...
It’s been one year since three of Jordan Willis’ friends, Clayton McGeeney, David Harrington and Ricky Johnson, were found dead outside Willis’ rental home in Kansas City, Mo.
Commerce Tower is a 30-story skyscraper located in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, US.Constructed in 1965, it is the ninth-tallest habitable structure in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, and since the completion of the City Hall, it was the first locally designed Skyscraper in Kansas City.