Missouri, Kansas City Landmarks Historical Markers

By William Fischer, Jr., February 2, 2013

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1 ► Missouri, Jackson County, Kansas City, Downtown Kansas City — New England Building — Kansas City Landmark —

Architects: Bradley, Winslow, & Wetherell Constructed: 1887-88 The great building boom of the 1880's, when eastern business invested heavily in the new cities of the frontier, produced this and several other significant structures in Kansas . . . — — Map (db m64002) HM

2 ► Missouri, Jackson County, Kansas City, Downtown Kansas City — New York Life Building — Kansas City Landmark —

Architects: McKim, Mead and White Constructed: 1887-90 This Neo-Renaissance Style office building symbolizes the faith of the moneyed East in Kansas City during the unprecedented prosperity of the 1880's. The bronze eagle was cast in the . . . — — Map (db m64003) HM

3 ► Missouri, Jackson County, Kansas City, Downtown Kansas City — Scarritt Arcade — Kansas City Landmark — Architect: Root and Siemens • Constructed: 1906-1907 —

The exterior of the Scarritt Arcade with its ornate terra cotta shows the influence of Louis Sullivan and the 'Chicago School' of architecture. An interior skylighted open well, with windows on all sides, allows natural light into the offices . . . — — Map (db m88180) HM

4 ► Missouri, Jackson County, Kansas City, East Village — Kansas City Public Library Building — Kansas City Landmark —

Architects: William F. Hackney, Charles A. Smith & Adriance Van Brunt Constructed: 1895-1897, 1917-1918 This building symbolized the growing intellectual and cultural consciousness of nineteenth-century Kansas City. Designed in the Second . . . — — Map (db m252079) HM

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