909 Walnut
| 909 Walnut | |
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| General information | |
| Status | Complete |
| Type | Residential apartments |
| Location | 909 Walnut, Kansas City, Missouri |
| Coordinates | 39°06′12″N 94°34′54″W / 39.103317°N 94.581776°WCoordinates: 39°06′12″N 94°34′54″W / 39.103317°N 94.581776°W |
| Construction started | 1930 |
| Completed | 1931 |
| Cost | US$2,850,000 |
| Owner | Simbol Commercial Inc |
| Height | |
| Roof | 471 feet (144 m) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 35 |
| Floor area | 477,649 sq ft (44,375.0 m2) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Hoit, Price & Barnes |
| Developer | Fidelity National Bank & Trust |
| Main contractor | Swenson Construction Company |
909 Walnut (formerly Fidelity National Bank & Trust Building, Federal Office Building and 911 Walnut) is a twin-spire, 35-story, 471-foot (144 m) converted structure in Kansas City that is Missouri's tallest apartment building and 10th-tallest habitable building in Missouri. It is also the tallest residential building in the Midwest outside of Chicago.
In 1997 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
The building was built in 1930–31 as the Fidelity National Bank & Trust Building (referred to locally as the Fidelity Building) at an estimated cost of $2,850,000, including bank fixtures. The site had been a two-story post office and federal building until 1904 when Fidelity purchased the site for its headquarters. The two-story building was razed in 1930. The new building mimicked the original federal twin-spire structure, in an Art Deco-Gothic Revival architectural motif.
The building's architect Hoit, Price & Barnes also designed the nearby Kansas City Power and Light Building in the Art Deco style.
The bank was liquidated in 1933 during the Great Depression.
On June 14, 1946, under Harry S. Truman, the Federal Government acquired the building at a report price of $3,300,000. It was renamed the Federal Office Building.
In 1954, the headquarters of the newly formed Severe Local Storms Warning Service of the United States Weather Bureau moved to the building from Washington, D.C.. A Radome for a weather radar was constructed between the towers on a steel skeleton rising above them, creating a landmark until 1995 when it was removed and the service relocated to Norman, Oklahoma, where it became the Storm Prediction Center.
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