Long Before Amazon, Montgomery Ward Built This Gigantic Warehouse In Kansas City

The Montgomery Ward warehouse at St. John and Belmont Avenues on the northeast side of Kansas City was called the largest building west of the Mississippi River when it opened in 1914.
Reinforced concrete. That’s the key to the Montgomery Ward warehouse that rose eight stories high at St. John and Belmont Avenues on Kansas City’s Northeast side in 1914.
It wasn’t the first building that Aaron Ward’s catalog company placed here. It was actually the third-but with 2.1 million square feet inside, it was easily the most imposing.
In fact, it was billed at the time as the largest building west of the Mississippi River.
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