Historic Kansas City Club up for sale after renovation

A 102-year-old historic building in Kansas City’s Library District is now available for purchase after its multiyear renovation as an upscale event space.

The Kansas City Club building at 918 Baltimore Ave. on Tuesday hit the market for sale to new owners. Denver-based Epoch Developments LLC has owned the four-story, 48,769-square-foot building since 2015.

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An asking price was not available; Jackson County last year valued the site at $888,300.

Built in 1922, the building originally housed the University Club — founded in 1882 as the state’s oldest private gentleman’s club, with prominent city businessmen, attorneys and politicians, including former presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman, among its past membership ranks.

The red brick structure was designed with Neoclassical-style elements and white terra cotta ornaments by local architects McKecknie and Trask.

See renovation photos in the Kansas City Business Journal.

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