At 29 stories and 445 feet tall this is the world’s fourth tallest city hall. This and other big-time construction projects in Kansas City were championed during the Depression of the 1930s by Democratic political boss Thomas Joseph Pendergast who, coincidentally, owned a concrete company. City Hall would require 20,000 cubic feet of Pendergast concrete. Inside were marbles from France, Italy and Vermont in shades of red and green and white. Look up before the building steps back to see a frieze with panels depicting critical events in the city’s history. Sculptures decorating the exterior were executed by German-American sculptors C. Paul Jennewein, Ulric Ellerhusen and Walter Hancock, a Medal of Freedom recipient who supervised the Confederate Memorial at Stone Mountain, Georgia.
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