TWA Administrative Offices Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“TWA Administrative Offices Building is a historic office building located at Kansas City, Platte County, Missouri. It was designed by the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Wilson, Morris, Crain & Anderson and built between 1968 and 1971 for Trans World Airlines.”
Wikipedia article TWA Administrative Offices Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Platte County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 11500 Ambassador Dr., Kansas City, 64153
When was it listed? November 2007
Category. building
Township. May township
Architectural style. modern architecture
National Register reference number. 07001157 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

10 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of TWA Administrative Offices Building between 2006 and 2007, burning about 13 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
21 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
12 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
1 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 March 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 November 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 November 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Every fire recorded in Platte County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of TWA Administrative Offices Building: 15 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Ferrelview Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Hampton Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Miller Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Miller Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unknown Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Platte County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Frederick Krause Mansion	6.9 miles	1978
Platte County Courthouse	7.0 miles	1979
Washington Chapel C.M.E. Church	7.5 miles	1992
Benjamin Banneker School	7.6 miles	1995
Mackay Building	7.8 miles	1979
Charles Smith Scott Memorial Observatory	7.8 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07001157 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Platte County	All 12 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.