Kansas City Live Stock Exchange

For other live stock exchange buildings, see Livestock Exchange Building (disambiguation).

Kansas City Live Stock Exchange
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Kansas City Live Stock Exchange in the West Bottoms.
Location	1600 Genessee St., Kansas City, Missouri
Coordinates
Built	1910
Architect	Wilder & Wight; Swenson Construction Co.
NRHP Reference #	84002571
Added to NRHP	April 05, 1984

The Kansas City Live Stock Exchange was the headquarters of the Kansas City Stockyards. It is located at 1600 Gennesse in Kansas City, Missouri, in the West Bottoms. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is owned by Bill Haw.

Architecture

The building, which began construction in 1909 and was completed in 1911, was the largest livestock exchange building in the world. In 1957, a one story addition was constructed on the south side of the building for the Golden Ox restaurant which had opened in the building in 1949.

The building has been renovated and currently serves as an office building with numerous business and personal services, including but not limited to, a coffee shop that also serves breakfast and lunch, barber/stylist, a health club including a masseuse, and a U.S. Post Office (the post office closed as of December 2008.)

The American Hereford Association bull and Kemper Arena and the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange Building in the former stockyards of the West Bottoms as seen from Quality Hill

External links

• National Registry entry
• Kansas City Public Library history
• Livestock Exchange Building Commercial Website