List of tallest buildings in Missouri facts for kids
The tallest structures in the U.S. state of Missouri include a 2,000-foot (610 m) broadcasting tower, an 800-foot (240 m) chimney, a 630-foot (190 m) monument, and a 624-foot (190 m) office building.
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The tallest accessible structure in Missouri, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis
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Missouri's tallest accessible buildings
| Rank | Name | Image | Height feet / m |
Floors | Year | Location | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | Gateway Arch | |
630 ft (192 m) | N/A | 1965 | St. Louis |
Tallest monument and memorial in the United States |
| 1 | One Kansas City Place |  |
624 ft (190 m) | 42 | 1988 | Kansas City | Tallest office building in Missouri; including spire, 199.3 m (654 ft). |
| 2 | One Metropolitan Square |  |
593 ft (181 m) | 42 | 1989 | St. Louis | |
| 3 | Town Pavilion |  |
591 ft (180 m) | 38 | 1986 | Kansas City | |
| 4 | 909 Chestnut Street |  |
588 ft (179 m) | 46 | 1986 | St. Louis | |
| 5 | Thomas F. Eagleton United States Courthouse |  |
557 ft (170 m) | 29 | 2000 | St. Louis | |
| 6 | Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center |  |
504 ft (154 m) | 45 | 1980 | Kansas City | |
| 7 | One US Bank Plaza |  |
484 ft (148 m) | 36 | 1976 | St. Louis | |
| 8 | Kansas City Power and Light Building |  |
481 ft (147 m) | 34 | 1931 | Kansas City | Converting to residential |
| 9 | 909 Walnut |  |
471 ft (144 m) | 35 | 1931 | Kansas City | Tallest residential in Missouri and Midwest outside Chicago |
| 10 | Kansas City City Hall |  |
445 ft (136 m) | 30 | 1937 | Kansas City | 4th-tallest City Hall in the world |
| 11 | Centene Centre |  |
430 ft (130 m) | 27 | 2019 | Clayton | |
| 12 | 1201 Walnut |  |
427 ft (130 m) | 30 | 1991 | Kansas City | |
| 13 | Commerce Tower |  |
421 ft (128 m) | 32 | 1965 | Kansas City | |
| 14 | The Plaza in Clayton |  |
409 ft (125 m) | 31 | 2002 | Clayton | |
| 15 | City Center Square |  |
404 ft (123 m) | 30 | 1978 | Kansas City | |
| 16 | Laclede Gas Building |  |
401 ft (122 m) | 31 | 1969 | St. Louis |
Missouri's tallest structures
| Name | Height feet / m |
Image | Location | Links | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KMOS Tower/Rohn Tower | 2,000 ft (610 m) | Syracuse | |||
| KYTV Tower | 1,999 ft (609 m) | Fordland | |||
| KYTV Tower 2 | 1,996 ft (608 m) | Marshfield | |||
| KOLR/KOZK Tower | 1,960 ft (600 m) | Fordland | |||
| Raycom America Tower | 1,677 ft (511 m) | Cape Girardeau | |||
| KBSI Tower | 1,567 ft (478 m) | Cape Girardeau |
Missouri's tallest chimneys
| Name | Height feet / m |
Location | Links | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Associated Electric Stack #1 | 800 ft (240 m) | New Madrid | ||
| Iatan Power Plant Stack | 700 ft (210 m) | Iatan | ||
| Rush Island Power Station | 700 ft (210 m) | Rush Island | ||
| Labadie Power Station Units 3 & 4 | 700 ft (210 m) | Labadie | ||
| Labadie Power Station Unit 2 | 700 ft (210 m) | Labadie | ||
| Labadie Power Station Unit 1 | 700 ft (210 m) | Labadie | ||
| Sibley Generator Station Stack | 700 ft (210 m) | Sibley | ||
| Associated Electric Stack #2 | 630 ft (190 m) | New Madrid | ||
| Thomas Hill Chimney | 620 ft (190 m) | Clifton Hill | ||
| Sioux Power Plant Stack #1 | 603 ft (184 m) | Portage Des Sioux | ||
| Sioux Power Plant Stack #2 | 603 ft (184 m) | Portage Des Sioux | ||
| Hawthorne Power Plant | 600 ft (180 m) | Kansas City | ||
| Callaway Cooling Tower | 553 ft (169 m) | Fulton | ||
| Herculaneum Smelter Stack | 550 ft (170 m) | Herculaneum |
History of Missouri's tallest habitable buildings
| Name | Height feet / m |
Location | Year | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Courthouse | 194 ft (59 m) | St. Louis | 1864 | |
| Union Station | 230 ft (70 m) | St. Louis | 1894 | |
| Commerce Trust Building | 258 ft (79 m) | Kansas City | 1907 | |
| Railway Exchange Building | 277 ft (84 m) | St. Louis | 1914 | |
| Federal Reserve Bank Building | 298 ft (91 m) | Kansas City | 1921 | |
| Southwestern Bell Building | 397 ft (121 m) | St. Louis | 1926 | |
| Kansas City Power and Light Building | 476 ft (145 m) | Kansas City | 1931 | |
| One US Bank Plaza | 484 ft (148 m) | St. Louis | 1976 | |
| Town Pavilion | 591 ft (180 m) | Kansas City | 1986 | |
| One Kansas City Place | 624 ft (190 m) | Kansas City | 1988 |
See also
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