University Club Building (Kansas City Club Building)

Posted on by Heather Scanlon

 

Image courtesy of Missouri Valley Special Collections
Image courtesy of Missouri Valley Special Collections

 

Architects McKecknie and Trask

912-916 Baltimore Avenue, Kansas City, MO

 

If seeking a bar, lounge, restaurant, library, and conference room all in one, welcome to the Kansas City Club (formerly the University Club) building at the corner of 9th and Baltimore. The prestigious private men’s club founded in 1901 relocated to the Neo-Classical reinforced concrete structure in 1923. Did I mention the squash court and the cigar stand? Unfortunately for the ladies, females were forbidden inside until the 1970s.