Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz

Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz

UNION STATION

Union Station was built in 1914 for $6 million by the Kansas City Terminal Railroad. Chicago architect Jarvis Hunt designed the Station in the beaux-arts architectural style.

In 1914, the newly built Union Station complex consisted of 10 levels, 900 rooms and about 850,000 square feet of space. Along with the T-shaped Headhouse containing ticketing, a waiting room, restaurants, several shops and various railroad offices, the complex also included the nation's largest Railway Express building (used for shipping freight and mail). A Power House provided steam heat and power to operate the Station and the railroad's many operations.

UNION STATION MASSACRE
In 1933 convicted mobster Frank Nash, under escort by a team of FBI Agents and Kansas City, Mo. police officers, is killed in front of Union Station. Four law enforcement officials also die as fellow mobsters tried to free the captured Nash. The event makes national headlines and becomes known as the "Union Station Massacre."

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