Municipal Auditorium

While surrounding skyscrapers dwarf the concrete fortress on 13th Street in downtown Kansas City, Mo, viewed head on, the Municipal Auditorium is as magisterial today as it was in 1899 and again when rebuilt in 1935. That year, Architectural Record named the auditorium “one of the 10 best buildings in the world.” This century, the Princeton Architectural Press included it in their list of 500 notable buildings in America.