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The Kansas City Power and Light Building (also called the KCP&L Building and the Power and Light Building) is a landmark skyscraper located in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri. It was constructed by Kansas City Power and Light President and Edison Pioneer, Joseph F. Porter [6] [7] [8] in 1931 as a way to promote new jobs in Downtown Kansas City.
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.
Western Union began operations in Kansas City in 1865. [2] In 1915, the company started planning a new regional hub in the city and began construction in 1919. The facility opened in 1920. [3] Western Union continued its telecommunication operations in the building until the late 1970s. [4]
The Kansas City Convention Center, originally Bartle Hall Convention Center or Bartle Hall, is a major convention center in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA. It was named for Harold Roe Bartle , a prominent, two-term mayor of Kansas City in the 1950s and early-1960s.
Saint Luke's College of Health Sciences, Kansas City Missouri. University of Missouri, Kansas City, Mo, one of four University of Missouri campuses, serving more than 14,000 undergraduates; University of Saint Mary, Leavenworth, Ks; Webster University, Kansas City, Mo, founded in 1915, in Kansas City since 1972. Evening programs for adult ...
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 art deco Kansas City Power and Light Building was the former headquarters of the company and was the tallest building west of the Mississippi until 1942, tallest in Missouri until 1976 and tallest in Kansas City until 1986 and is the namesake of the downtown Kansas City Power & Light District Barack Obama in front a KCP&L truck on July 8, 2010, at the Smith Electric Vehicles plant at ...
In 2014, the Kansas City Plant moved to the renamed Kansas City National Security Campus, a state-of-art facility including manufacturing, laboratory, office, and warehouse space. The move saves the government about $100 million annually in operating costs and cut energy consumption by more than 50 percent.