Did You Know The Same Architect Designed The Kansas City Star's Former Home And Union Station?

Sun, 18 May 2025 17:46:42 +0000

The building that housed The Kansas City Star for more than one hundred years was designed by Jarvis Hunt, the architect for Union Station. A postcard view of the building at 1729 Grand Boulevard includes the tower for WDAF radio, which began broadcasting from studios inside The Star in 1922.

Before 1911, The Kansas City Star (founded in 1881) operated from a number of locations. Harry Truman even worked downtown briefly at one of them.

When The Star’s publisher, William Rockhill Nelson, decided to create a “permanent” base of operations at 1729 Grand, he chose to employ the architect who would later design Union Station, Jarvis Hunt.

According to accounts at the time, Hunt’s first plan was too fancy for Nelson’s tastes.

Given all the ink and industrial activity required to print papers, Nelson suggested emphatically that the young Chicagoan try again.

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