The Kansas City Garment District Museum is located in the

Garment District (Kansas City, Missouri) The Kansas City Garment District is located in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri to the east of Quality Hill, across Broadway Boulevard. In the 1930s several large clothing manufacturers clustered here, making Kansas City's garment district second on ...

, in the lobby of DST Systems Inc.'s Poindexter Building. It is a part of the

Kansas City Museum The Kansas City Museum is located in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. In 1910, the site was built by lumber baron and civic leader Robert A. Long as his private family estate, with the four-story historic Beaux-Arts style mansion named Cori ...

Overview

The Kansas City Garment District Museum was founded and opened in 2002 by Ann Brownfield and Harvey Fried. In 2015, Brownfield and Fried retired from the daily operations of the museum. They donated more than 300 Kansas City-made garments and accessories to the

, adding to its existing collection of more than 20,000 items of historical clothing, textiles, and costumes. The Garment District Place Park, dedicated in 2010 by Parks and Recreation, is located across Broadway from the museum. The park has a fountain and a 22-foot "Needle" sculpture as tribute to the Garment District's legacy. Many of the buildings nearby the Historic Garment District Museum were built in the 1870s and are on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

. The manufacture of coats, suits, dresses, hats, and children's wear started on the upper floors of the wholesale dry goods buildings in the early 1920s. After World War I and through the 1940s, the area employed more than 4,000 people and boasted that one out of every seven women in the United States purchased a Kansas City-made garment. Manufacturing of garments was the second largest employer of any industry in Kansas City, Missouri. Blue Dress at the KC Garment District Museum

Blue Dress at the KC Garment District Museum

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* {{Official website , https://kcparks.org/places/historic-garment-district-museum-of-kansas-city/ Museums in Kansas City, Missouri Textile museums in the United States Industry museums in Missouri