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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Missouri's tallest accessible buildings
editRank | Name | Image | Height feet / m |
Floors | Year | Location | Links |
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- | Gateway Arch | 630 ft (192 m) | N/A | 1965 | St. Louis | ||
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 | [1] | |
3 | Town Pavilion | 591 ft (180 m) | 38 | 1986 | Kansas City | [2] | |
4 | 909 Chestnut Street | 588 ft (179 m) | 46 | 1986 | St. Louis | [3] | |
5 | Thomas F. Eagleton United States Courthouse | 557 ft (170 m) | 29 | 2000 | St. Louis | [4] | |
6 | Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center | 504 ft (154 m) | 45 | 1980 | Kansas City | Tallest hotel in Missouri | |
7 | One US Bank Plaza | 484 ft (148 m) | 36 | 1976 | St. Louis | [5] | |
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 | [6] | |
12 | 1201 Walnut | 427 ft (130 m) | 30 | 1991 | Kansas City | [7] | |
13 | Commerce Tower | 421 ft (128 m) | 32 | 1965 | Kansas City | Upper 20 floors converting to residential | |
14 | The Plaza in Clayton | 409 ft (125 m) | 31 | 2002 | Clayton | [8] | |
15 | City Center Square | 404 ft (123 m) | 30 | 1978 | Kansas City | [9] | |
16 | Laclede Gas Building | 401 ft (122 m) | 31 | 1969 | St. Louis | [10] |
Missouri's tallest structures
editName | Height feet / m |
Image | Location | Links | Year |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
KMOS Tower/Rohn Tower | 2,000 ft (610 m) | Syracuse | [11] | ||
KYTV Tower | 1,999 ft (609 m) | Fordland | [12] | ||
KYTV Tower 2 | 1,996 ft (608 m) | Marshfield | [13] | ||
KOLR/KOZK Tower | 1,960 ft (600 m) | Fordland | [14] | ||
Raycom America Tower | 1,677 ft (511 m) | Cape Girardeau | [15] | ||
KBSI Tower | 1,567 ft (478 m) | Cape Girardeau | [16] |
Missouri's tallest chimneys
editName | Height feet / m |
Location | Links | Year |
---|---|---|---|---|
Associated Electric Stack #1 | 800 ft (240 m) | New Madrid | [17] | |
Iatan Power Plant Stack | 700 ft (210 m) | Iatan | [18] | |
Rush Island Power Station | 700 ft (210 m) | Rush Island | [19] | |
Labadie Power Station Units 3 & 4 | 700 ft (210 m) | Labadie | [20] | |
Labadie Power Station Unit 2 | 700 ft (210 m) | Labadie | [21] | |
Labadie Power Station Unit 1 | 700 ft (210 m) | Labadie | [22] | |
Sibley Generator Station Stack | 700 ft (210 m) | Sibley | [23] | |
Associated Electric Stack #2 | 630 ft (190 m) | New Madrid | [24] | |
Thomas Hill Chimney | 620 ft (190 m) | Clifton Hill | [25] | |
Sioux Power Plant Stack #1 | 603 ft (184 m) | Portage Des Sioux | [26] | |
Sioux Power Plant Stack #2 | 603 ft (184 m) | Portage Des Sioux | [27] | |
Hawthorne Power Plant | 600 ft (180 m) | Kansas City | [28] | |
Callaway Cooling Tower | 553 ft (169 m) | Fulton | [29] | |
Herculaneum Smelter Stack | 550 ft (170 m) | Herculaneum | [30] |
History of Missouri's tallest habitable buildings
editName | Height feet / m |
Location | Year | Links |
---|---|---|---|---|
Old Courthouse | 194 ft (59 m) | St. Louis | 1864 | [31] |
Union Station | 230 ft (70 m) | St. Louis | 1894 | [32] |
Commerce Trust Building | 258 ft (79 m) | Kansas City | 1907 | [33] |
Railway Exchange Building | 277 ft (84 m) | St. Louis | 1914 | [34] |
Federal Reserve Bank Building | 298 ft (91 m) | Kansas City | 1921 | [35] |
Southwestern Bell Building | 397 ft (121 m) | St. Louis | 1926 | [36] |
Kansas City Power and Light Building | 476 ft (145 m) | Kansas City | 1931 | [37] |
One US Bank Plaza | 484 ft (148 m) | St. Louis | 1976 | [38] |
Town Pavilion | 591 ft (180 m) | Kansas City | 1986 | [39] |
One Kansas City Place | 624 ft (190 m) | Kansas City | 1988 | [40] |