909 Walnut Street (Kansas City, MO USA)

City: Kansas City, MO USA  
Height: 144 meters (471 feet)  
Architects: Hoit, Price & Barnes  
Year Built: 1931  
Floors: 35  

909 Walnut formerly known as Fidelity National Bank & Trust, is a twin-spired residential skyscraper. The site had previously been a two-story post office. The new building mimicked the original twin-spire structure, in an Art Deco-Gothic Revival architectural motif. The bank was liquidated in 1933 during the Great Depression and in 1946, the Federal Government acquired it. In 1954, the headquarters of the Severe Local Storms Warning Service of the US Weather Bureau moved to the building from Washington, D.C. A Radome weather radar was constructed between the towers on a steel skeleton rising above them, creating a landmark until it was removed and the service relocated to Norman, OK. Another distinctive landmark was the "town clock" in the north tower, which had first started keeping time in the original 1885 post office. The clock face has since been removed and replaced by large windows for the highest residential living unit within five states. Following the 9/11 attacks, the building was renamed from 911 Walnut to 909 Walnut. The building was converted into apartments and commercial office space with an award-winning garage rooftop garden.

SOURCES: 909 Walnut - Wikipedia