The National Archives has relocated its Kansas City branch on Tuesday to the Adams Express Building near Union Station. The new address is: 400 West Pershing Road, Kansas City, MO 64108; Phone: 816-268-8000.
The $10 million renovation of the Adams Express Building includes state-of-the-art archival storage and public research rooms with the latest computer resources to support the work of all researchers. The holdings include original records of the:
- U.S. District Courts,
- U.S. attorneys,
- Bureau of Prisons,
- Bureau of Indian Affairs,
- Corps of Engineers,
- U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and
- National Parks Service.
Eighteen full-time and about five part-time employees moved to the new 39,000 square foot facility. The Kansas City office of the National Archives is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.
Three simultaneous exhibits will launch on May 22, 2009: A Welcome Center gallery with interactive exhibits and audio-visual presentations featuring “Democracy Starts Here”; a Regional History Gallery opening with the Kansas-Nebraska Act, on loan from the National Archives in Washington; & the Concourse Gallery offering “It’s Big: 75th Anniversary of the National Archives.”
The archive’s Kansas City facility had been at the Bannister Road Federal Complex since 1969.
Read more about it in the March 11, 2009 edition of KansasCity.com.
Read more about the move in the March 17, 2009 edition of the Kansas City Business Journal.
