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Hospital Hill, Kansas City — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Hospital Hill is a Kansas City neighbourhood on the rise where public hospitals have stood since 1870, between Gillham Road and Troost Avenue.
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Where to stay in Hospital Hill
Where the beds are, and what that means for the visit.
The hospital blocks along Gillham Road keep no guest rooms. Everything between 22nd Street and 25th Street is given over to hospital wards and to the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, so a bed means looking north into downtown Kansas City. Troost Avenue closes the eastern side.
The 21c Museum Hotel Kansas City and the convention hotels around Barney Allis Plaza sit a short ride north of the 22nd Street edge of Hospital Hill.
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The 22nd Street to 25th Street blocks
Hospital wards and the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine take up the ground between Gillham Road and Troost Avenue, which leaves the slope without room stock of its own. Rooms are few around here — worth securing early.Find hotels in The 22nd Street to 25th Street blocksstays wanting a full hotel lobby and the walk on to the Cathedral of the Immaculate ConceptionDowntown around Barney Allis Plaza
Kansas City stacks its convention hotels around Barney Allis Plaza, a short ride north of the 22nd Street boundary of Hospital Hill.Find hotels in Downtown around Barney Allis Plazaarrivals by train who want the memorial ridge and the station halls within walking distanceThe Union Station side, west of Gillham Road
West of Gillham Road the ground falls toward Science City at Union Station, with the National World War I Memorial standing on the ridge above it.Find hotels in The Union Station side, west of Gillham RoadHotel 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
7- Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception Heritage
- St. Mary's Episcopal Church Heritage
- Sacred Heart Church, School and Rectory Heritage
- Westminster Congregational Church Heritage
- Pilgrim Lutheran Church for the Deaf of Greater Kansas City and Parsonage Heritage
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- 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
5- William D. Repp House Heritage
- William Francis Shelley House Heritage
- Maj. William Warner House Heritage
- Walt Disney House Heritage
- William Baker and Mary Knight House Heritage
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About Hospital Hill
What are the main landmarks in Hospital Hill?
Teaching hospitals stand in for monuments on this slope. The University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine holds the high ground between Gillham Road and Troost Avenue, and clinical buildings rather than civic ones set the scale of every block on the slope. The museums begin west of Gillham Road.
Science City at Union Station and the National World War I Memorial stand on that side, while the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and the American Jazz Museum sit north-east beyond Troost Avenue.
What is the history of Hospital Hill?
Public hospitals have stood on this rise since 1870, and the neighbourhood between 22nd Street and 25th Street took both its shape and its plain name from the buildings that filled the slope. New wards went up beside them. The University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine was established alongside them, which drew students and teaching staff onto ground that had grown up around treatment alone.
The same four streets still frame it.
Where is Hospital Hill?
A rise between Gillham Road and Troost Avenue gives the neighbourhood its name, with 22nd Street and 25th Street closing the northern and southern ends.
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What is the best area to stay in Hospital Hill?
The 22nd Street to 25th Street blocks: visitors with an appointment or a class on the medical campus itself. Downtown around Barney Allis Plaza: stays wanting a full hotel lobby and the walk on to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. The Union Station side, west of Gillham Road: arrivals by train who want the memorial ridge and the station halls within walking distance.
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Updated October 2026