Union Station

Union Station
30 West Pershing Rd
Kansas City, MO. 64108
816.460.2020
http://www.unionstation.org/index.cfm

Built in 1914, this Kansas City landmark is home to a permanent rail exhibit with vintage rail cars, an interactive science center, a vibrant Theater District featuring giant-screen movies and live theater, fine restaurants, spaces for meetings and events and much more. Of course, you can still catch the train at Union Station, once again among Amtrak's busiest stops. All of the light fixtures are original as well as the clock and floors. The windows in front are 8 stories high. During WWII over 50% of the soldiers went through Union Station, the 2nd largest train station in the nation.

Henry Wollman Bloch Fountain

In 2001, the H&R Block Foundation created the Henry Wollman Bloch Fountain at Union Station as a gift to the people of Kansas City. The 232-jet fountain produces spectacular computer-choreographed water displays in a medium between the Liberty Memorial and Union Station. More than 1,610 square feet of 2-inch-thick Winter Sky Granite was cut and shipped from Canada for the water display area. More than 7,991 square feet of 2-inch-thick Rustenburg Dark Granite was used for the water skin area. More than 736 square feet of 1 1/4 inch thick granite was used on the face of the fountain, designed by Wet Design.

Kansas City, known as the City of Fountains, is believed to have more public fountains than any city other than Rome.