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Kansas City, Missouri: ca. 1859 Church The oldest church in Kansas City, Missouri. Built for the Antioch Christian Church which was organized in 1853. It was later restored in 1968 and moved by the congregation which uses it for special events today. [14] It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a Kansas City Landmark.
The two most noticeable postmodern buildings in the Kansas City skyline are the Town Pavilion (built in 1986) and One Kansas City Place (1988). One Kansas City Place is a taller, glass version of City Hall. The building rises 623 feet (190 m) from its main entrance to the top of its spire and is Missouri's tallest office building.
This article lists the oldest extant buildings in Kansas, including extant buildings and structures constructed prior to and during the United States rule over Kansas. Only buildings built prior to 1860 are suitable for inclusion on this list, or the building must be the oldest of its type.
Downtown Kansas City is defined as being roughly bounded by the Missouri River to the north, 31st Street to the south, Troost Avenue to the east, and State Line Road to the west. The locations of National Register properties and districts are in an online map.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the Jackson County portions of Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map. [1]
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of March 13, 2009 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
Map of Kansas City, Missouri. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Kansas City, Missouri outside downtown.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the Jackson County portions of Kansas City, Missouri, United States, outside downtown.
Upon arrival there in October 1843, Richard Wornall purchased five slaves and a 500-acre (2.0 km 2) farm from the town's father, John Calvin McCoy. The land, for which Wornall paid $5 per acre, stretched between present-day 59th and 67th streets, State Line, and Main Street in what is now Kansas City.