City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Tours & Attractions
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 400 Grand Ave.
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 4900 Truman Rd.
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 500 W. U.S. Highway 24
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 6305 Lackman Rd.
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 3218 Gladstone Blvd.
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 100 W. 26th St.
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 1616 E. 18th St.
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Tours & Attractions
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Tours & Attractions
41. Charlie Parker Memorial
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 1616 E. 18th St.
Description: The name of sculptor Robert Graham’s 17-foot bronze head of Charlie “Bird” Parker is Bird Lives. He certainly does, through his music. The Kansas City, Kansas, native, who changed the sound of jazz, is memorialized on a plaza behind the American Jazz Museum in the 18th and Vine District. This was a gift to Kansas City from philanthropists Tony and Marti Oppenheimer.
42. Pioneer Mother
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Description: The inscription on this large bronze tells the story of thousands of women who gave up homes and families back east to start new lives. The passage from the Book of Ruth reads, “Whither thou goest, I will go and wither thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people will be my people, and thy God, my God.”
43. Rosedale Memorial Arch
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Description: Based on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, this monument pays tribute to soldiers who fought in World War I. It was designed by Rosedale resident John LeRoy Marshall and dedicated in 1923. The “War to End All Wars” wasn’t, and 70 years later a monument was added to honor the soldiers of World War II, Korea, and the Vietnam conflict. High on a hill, the arch can be seen from miles away.
44. The Scout
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Description: This impressive statue of an Indian on horseback wasn’t even meant to be ours; it rested here temporarily en route to its intended home at San Francisco’s 1915 Panama-Pacific Expo. But Kansas Citians loved the sculpture so much they raised $15,000 to buy it. Now The Scout forever watches over our skyline from a hill in Penn Valley Park.
45. Sky Stations/Pylon Caps
City: Kansas City, MO
Category: Tours & Attractions
Description: When these metal sculptures were mounted on tall, slender pylons 200 feet above Bartle Hall in 1994, they became one of our most dramatic landmarks—and one of the most hotly debated. Some pundits refer to them as “three whirligigs and a curling iron.” George Jetson may disagree, but R. M. Fisher’s designs were influenced not by the space age but by the art deco designs found throughout our downtown skyline.