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Almost there, when the @kcstreetcar.org riverfront extension opens (2026 projected) this NYC style map will be complete!

The names of this building:
Kansas City Athletic Club (1923-1982)
Mark Twain Tower (1982-2023)
The Mark Apartments (2023-present)

Mark Twain Tower
📍Kansas City, Missouri
⬆️87m (286 ft)
🧑‍🎨Hoit, Price, & Barnes
🏗️1925
⚙️Apartments / Mixed use
🏛️Neo-Gothic

#kansascity #archdaily #architecture #photography #kc #missouri #marktwain #themarkapts #kcmo #neogothic #gothicrevivial

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
📍Kansas City, Missouri
🧑‍🎨Henry N Cobb (Pei Cobb Freed & Partners)
🏗️2008
⚙️Federal Reserve Bank and Museum
🏛️Modernism / Neoclassical

#kansascity #archdaily #architecture #photography #kc #missouri #kcmo #modernism #neoclassical #federal #usa #americanarchitecture

A map of Humboldt, Kansas roads rails, and rivers and creeks and ponds, a dark green background accentuating the rivers and creeks as well as the roads

A black and white map of the road infrastructure of Humboldt, Kansas in black with a white background

Humboldt, Kansas - Hydrology &
Humboldt Roads

A map of the roads, rail, trails, bike lanes, rivers, creeks, public buildings, and parks of Humboldt, Kansas made in a minimalist style with a mint green background

Humboldt, Kansas
📄Canva
⚙️A map of the roads, rail, trails, bike lanes, rivers, creeks, public buildings, and parks of Humboldt, Kansas -minimalist in mint green
🕐6/21/2025
🧑‍🎨Joseph Welch

#humboldt #humboldtks #kansas #basecamp #neoshoriver #neoshovalley #SEK #southeastkansas #sekliving #allencoks

Mission Transit Center
📄Canva
⚙️A diagram of the Mission Transit Center in Mission, Kansas modeled after the RideKC diagram map of the East Village Transit Center. This includes a minimalist sunflower logo for the transit center. (Service reflects 2024)
🕐7/14/2025
🧑‍🎨Joseph Welch

A map of Roeland Park and Fairway, Kansas in two different shades of green with an overlay of the bus lines that run through both cities. The contrast of service between Roeland Park and Fairway display the transit priorities of each municipality.

Roeland Park Fairway Transit Metro Map
📄Canva
⚙️A map of Roeland Park and Fairway, Kansas in two different shades of green with an overlay of the bus lines that run through both cities. (Service reflects 2024)
🕐3/4/2025
🧑‍🎨Joseph Welch

#transit #joco #fairwayks #roelandpark #ridekc #kansas #kc

A map of Westwood, Westwood Hills, Mission Woods, and Mission Hills, Kansas in various shades of green overlayed with the bus lines that run through the area. The bus lines are in a rail metro style. Westwood Hills and Mission Woods have no bus stops in them, and Mission Woods, has one stop from the 401 bus that is at the very Northwest corner. There is a large part of this map that has no transit, as the only bus lines that have more than one stop is the Northwest corner of Westwood where two lines converge and diverge. (the 107 and 403)

North East Johnson County Transit Metro Map
📄Canva
⚙️A map of Westwood, Westwood Hills, Mission Woods, and Mission Hills, Kansas in various shades of green overlayed with the bus lines that run through the area. The bus lines are in a rail metro style. (Service reflects 2024)
🕐7/14/2025
🧑‍🎨Joseph Welch

A map of Prairie Village, Kansas in Green with overlays of the bus routes, stops, and transfers labeled in a rail metro format.

Prairie Village Transit Metro Map
📄Canva
⚙️A map of Prairie Village, Kansas in Green with overlays of the bus routes, stops, and transfers labeled in a rail metro format. (Service as of 2024)
🕐3/4/2025
🧑‍🎨Joseph Welch

A map of Leawood, Kansas in red with overlaying layers of the bus routes and stops labeled, a copy of the regional trails & bikeways added in the lower left corner. This is a very long city split into two pieces, and the scale has made the bus routes and stops hard to read from afar, so a zoom-in would be required to view specific places that the buses run.

Leawood Transit Metro Map
📄Canva
⚙️A map of Leawood, Kansas in red with overlaying layers of the bus routes and stops labeled, a copy of the regional trails & bikeways added in the lower left corner (Service as of 2024)(Zoom in for detail)
🕐3/4/2025
🧑‍🎨Joseph Welch

A map of Mission, Kansas in green with overlaying layers of the bus routes in blue that run through the city with each stop, bus number, and transit center labeled. The layers are to resemble a rail metro map. The Mission Transit Center is prominently displayed with the Sunflower logo in the stop indicator circle. Each route through Mission does have some complexity that would be hard to read on a regular service map, giving this map some layers and intricate routing visuals.

Mission Transit Metro Map
📄Canva
⚙️A map of Mission, Kansas in green with overlaying layers of the bus routes that run through the city with each stop, bus number, and transit center labeled. The layers are to resemble a rail metro map. (This map reflects service as of 2024.)
🕐7/14/2025
🧑‍🎨Joseph Welch

Community Christian Church
📍Kansas City, Missouri
🧑‍🎨Frank Lloyd Wright
🏗️1940
⚙️House of Worship
🏛️Prairie School

franklloydwright.org/site/communi...
#franklloydwright #kc #kansascityarch #kansascity #kcmo #flw #archdaily #architecture #church #churcharchitecture #arch

A diagram of the 47th & State Ave. Transit Center in Kansas City, Kansas. Done in the style of the KCATA East Village Transit Center Diagram.

47th & State Ave. Transit Center
📄Canva
⚙️A diagram of the 47th & State Ave. Transit Center in Kansas City, Kansas. Done in the style of the KCATA East Village Transit Center Diagram. (This iteration reflects the service reductions of July 2025)
🕐6/19/2025
🧑‍🎨Joseph Welch

Rosedale Neighborhood Transportation Map
📄Canva
⚙️A satellite map of the Rosedale neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas with an overlay of the bus routes, bus stops, and bike infrastructure. This reflects service and bike routes completed in the neighborhood as of July 2025.
🕐7/9/2025
🧑‍🎨Joseph Welch

A map of the Kansas City Streetcar in the style of the NYC Subway map (2025) with two proposed extensions that accentuate the strengths of the map stylings

Kansas City Streetcar (Future)
📄Canva
⚙️A map of the Kansas City Streetcar made in the style of the NYC subway map (2025). It includes the two extensions of the Kansas City streetcar to be finished in 2025-2026, and two proposed extensions into other parts of the city.
🕐7/7/2025
🧑‍🎨Joseph Welch

A map of the Kansas City Streetcar in the style of the NYC Subway map (2025)

Kansas City Streetcar
📄Canva
⚙️A map of the Kansas City Streetcar made in the style of the NYC subway map (2025). It includes the two extensions of the Kansas City streetcar to be finished in 2025-2026.
🕐7/7/2025
🧑‍🎨Joseph Welch

#kc #kcstreetcar #kansascity #kcmo #nyc #subwaymap #streetcar 📄

Lightwell Building (City Center Square)
📍Kansas City, Missouri
⬆️123m (404 ft)
🧑‍🎨Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
🏗️1977
⚙️Office, Retail
🏛️Brutalism, Modernism

#kansascity #kc #architecture #archdaily #archkc #kcarchitecture #kcmo #downtownkc #lightwell #metrocenterkc

Interior

Ruffin Building
📍Wichita, Kansas
🏗️1974
⚙️Office
🏛️Modernism, Brutalism
#wichita #architecture #philruffin #ruffin #kansas #Kansasarchitecture @cityofwichita.bsky.social

One Hundred (above the park)
📍Saint Louis, Missouri
⬆️117m (385 ft)
🧑‍🎨Jeanne Gang
🏗️2020
⚙️Residential, Retail
🏛️Modernism
#STL #stlouis #missouri #visitstl #stltourism #stlmo #onehundredabovethepark @cityofstl.bsky.social @visitmo.bsky.social #architecture #archdaily #adastraarch #modernism

"Western Auto" sign
⬆️70'x73' (21.3m x 22.2m)

Western Auto Building
📍Kansas City, Missouri
🧑‍🎨Arthur C Tufts & Company
🏗️1914
⚙️Residential, Office
🏛️Chicago School
#Kansascity #kcmo #crossroadskc #kccrossroads #unionstationkc #missouri #mo #KC #kcbaby #westernauto #westernautobuilding #architecture #archdaily #kcarchitecture #architecturekc

A photo taken straight up in the alley behind commerce tower with a thin diagonal line of skylight between the two tall towers framing the alley view

A skyline view of the library district of Kansas City, Missouri with the commerce tower letters "Commerce Bank" illuminated in the fog evil lair maxxing

Looking up the tower at the overhang room on the top floor from the alley

Black and White night photo of the tower with various lights on the tower illuminating the curtain wall façade

Bright photo of the commerce tower peeking over two buildings in the foreground with "Commerce Bank" lettered out on the rooftop with various large antennae arising from the rooftop of the building and the moon in the pastel blue sky

An alley photo with a tree in the center with two old brick buildings to the sides, a parking garage behind the center tree with the commerce tower overlooking the scene showcasing its height

Commerce Tower
📍Kansas City, Missouri
⬆️128.3m (421 ft.)
🏗️1965
⚙️Residential, Education
🏛️Modernism
#kansascity #KCMO #commercebank #visitkc #visitmo #missouri #mo #downtownkc #kc

Milwaukee Art Museum
📍Milwaukee, Wisconsin
🧑‍🎨Santiago Calatrava, David Kahler, Eero Saarinen
🏗️2001
⚙️Museum
🏛️Post-Modernism, Modernism
#milwaukee #mke #wisconsin #wisco #visitwisconsin #visitmke #thingstodoinmilwaukee #milwaukeewi #art #museum #mam #calatrava #architecture #archdaily

250 Douglas Place
📍Wichita, Kansas
⬆️80m (262ft.)
🏗️1970
⚙️Office, Residential, Retail
🏛️Modernism
#kansas #Wichita #wichitaks #ks #250douglasplace @cityofwichita.bsky.social #thingstodoinks #thingstodoinwichita #bsky #fyp #insta #x

The New Yorker
📍Kansas City, MO
⬆️9 stories (est. 31m 100ft)
🏗1915
⚙Retail, Residential
🏛Renaissance Modernist
#kc #kansascity #kcmo #powerandlight #mo #missouri #kansascitymo #architecture #archdaily #archphotography #photography #downtownkc