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Westport, Kansas City — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Westport is a historic neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri, and the city's main entertainment district of bars, music rooms and old houses.
About Westport
Where to stay in Westport
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Westport's evenings run on bar noise. Rooms inside Westport's entertainment blocks are few, so most visitors take a bed elsewhere on the Kansas City grid and come in on foot or by a short ride for the evening. Streets near Westminster Congregational Church put the bars at the door.
South toward the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the grid turns residential and the nights go quiet.
About Westport
What are the main landmarks in Westport?
Museums crowd Westport's southern approach. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art anchor that side, with the National Toy and Miniature Museum a further stop for anyone traveling with children. The Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio State Historic Site marks where the painter lived and worked.
Nearby stand the Bernard Corrigan House, Mineral Hall, the Epperson House and the Reverend Nathan Scarritt Home, along with the Community Christian Church.
What is the history of Westport?
Westport carries its past in its buildings rather than in a founding date, since no charter year is recorded for the neighborhood, only a long roll of named houses and churches. The August Meyer House is one. The Reverend Nathan Scarritt Home, the Epperson House and the Judge Louis Gates House carry the names of the families they were built for, while Westminster Congregational Church and the First Swedish Baptist Church mark the congregations that followed.
Where is Westport?
Westport is a compact set of blocks on the Kansas City grid in Missouri, with the museum streets around the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art lying just to the south.
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Updated September 2026