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Crossroads, Kansas City — Area Guide & Where to Stay
The Crossroads Arts District is the gallery quarter of Kansas City, filling renovated warehouses south of the Downtown Loop.
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Where to stay in Crossroads
Where the beds are, and what that means for the visit.
Baltimore Avenue is the axis. The blocks around 19th Street hold the galleries, the restaurants, and the housewares shops, so a room here puts the district's working day within a few minutes' walk. Larger houses sit north in the Downtown Loop and south at Crown Center.
The 21c Museum Hotel Kansas City suits you if the gallery habit should carry on past check-in. Stay in the warehouse blocks for the live music venues.
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19th and Baltimore
The district's centre point at 19th Street and Baltimore Avenue keeps the gallery warehouses on every side of the door.Find hotels in 19th and Baltimorefamilies pairing the galleries with the Legoland Discovery Center Kansas CityCrown Center edge
Rooms at the Crown Center end sit south of the Crossroads warehouses and beside Sea Life Kansas City.Find hotels in Crown Center edgetravellers wanting Downtown Loop hotel scale a walk from the Crossroads galleriesDowntown Loop edge
North of the Crossroads the Downtown Loop carries the larger houses, with Barney Allis Plaza inside the same ring of freeway.Find hotels in Downtown Loop edgeHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
Things to do in and around Kansas City
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Museums & Galleries
3- National World War I Memorial Heritage
- Arabia Steamboat Museum
- American Jazz Museum
Churches & Religious Sites
5- Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception Heritage
- St. Mary's Episcopal Church Heritage
- Sacred Heart Church, School and Rectory Heritage
- Christian Church Hospital Heritage
- Grand Avenue Temple and Grand Avenue Temple Building Heritage
Nature & Outdoors
1- World War II Memorial (Jackson County)
Stadiums & Sports
2- Exposition Park
- Barney Allis Plaza
Landmarks & Notable Places
3- Frank M. Howe Residence Heritage
- Joseph Grear Peppard House Heritage
- Maj. William Warner House Heritage
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About Crossroads
What are the main landmarks in Crossroads?
The Crossroads warehouses are the attraction. Dozens of them fill the renovated warehouses and industrial buildings around 19th Street, and the district carries the city's visual arts trade rather than any single monument. Barney Allis Plaza lies north, inside the Downtown Loop.
Crown Center, immediately south, gathers Sea Life Kansas City and the Legoland Discovery Center Kansas City. Science City at Union Station, the National World War I Memorial, and the American Jazz Museum belong to the wider Greater Downtown roster.
What is the history of Crossroads?
The warehouses and industrial buildings that hold the galleries went up for freight and manufacture, and their conversion turned the Crossroads Arts District into the main gallery quarter of Kansas City. Artists took the cheap floors along 19th Street first. The restaurants, the design studios, and the advertising work followed them into the same blocks around 19th Street.
That older garment trade keeps its own record in the Kansas City Garment District Museum, elsewhere in Greater Downtown.
Where is Crossroads?
The Crossroads Arts District sits directly south of the Downtown Loop and north of Crown Center, centred on 19th Street and Baltimore Avenue.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Crossroads?
19th and Baltimore: gallery-first stays at the Crossroads Arts District's own centre point. Crown Center edge: families pairing the galleries with the Legoland Discovery Center Kansas City. Downtown Loop edge: travellers wanting Downtown Loop hotel scale a walk from the Crossroads galleries.
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Updated October 2026