October 30, 1914; 109 years ago (October 30, 1914)
Closed
1983 (except Amtrak Bubble)
1985 (Entire station closed)
Rebuilt
November 10, 1999 (with Science City); 2002 (Amtrak service resumed)
Previous names
Union Depot (April 8, 1878–October 31, 1914), West Bottoms
Passengers
FY 2022
110,232[1] (Amtrak)
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toward Rock Island
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Grandview
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North Kansas City
toward Chicago
Union Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location
Pershing Rd. and Main St., Kansas City, Missouri
Area
20.2 acres (8.2 ha)
Built
1901
Architect
Jarvis Hunt
Architectural style
Beaux-Arts
NRHP reference No.
72000719[2]
Added to NRHP
February 1, 1972
Kansas City Union Station (station code: KCY) is a union station opened in 1914, serving Kansas City, Missouri, and the surrounding metropolitan area. It replaced a small Union Depot from 1878. Union Station served a peak annual traffic of more than 670,000 passengers in 1945 at the end of World War II, quickly declined in the 1950s, and was closed in 1985.
In 1996, a public–private partnership undertook a US$250 million restoration, funded in part by a sales tax levied in Kansas and Missouri counties of the Kansas City metropolitan area.[3] By 1999, the station reopened as a suite of attractions, including museums. In 2002, Union Station returned to train service, when Amtrak began public transportation services, and became Missouri's second-busiest train station. The refurbished station has theaters, ongoing museum exhibits, and attractions such as Science City, the Irish Museum and Cultural Center, and the Todd Bolender Center for Dance and Creativity. Since 2016, it is a stop for the KC Streetcar.
^"Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2022: State of Missouri" (PDF). Amtrak. June 2023. Retrieved August 30, 2023.
^"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^"Audit: Bistate Commission spent tax money properly". Kansas City Business Journal. August 26, 2002. Retrieved April 19, 2020.
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