He called the area “Quality Hill” and built the original Kansas City Board of Trade Building (near 8th and Wyandotte), The Coates Opera House (across the street from The Majestic) and the Coates Hotel (at 10th and Broadway).
Instead, Coates bought the land himself and developed what became Kansas City’s first residential neighborhood. Disappointed in the mineral contents of the land, they ordered Coates to sell it in parcels to the locals. Coates was sent from Pennsylvania by investors to look after a 100-acre parcel of land they bought that composed much of what is now considered downtown Kansas City. At this time the tiny Town of Kansas was located near the Missouri River and primarily served as a point for steamships to unload supplies for the nearby town of Westport. The area of downtown Kansas City where The Majestic Restaurant is located was covered in trees when a man named Kersey Coates arrived in town in 1854. It all happened right outside our front door and chapters of this history are still being written at this classic Kansas City Steakhouse. While most people know us as a classic Kansas City’s most authentic steakhouse, very few stop to consider how much of Kansas City’s history was seen just outside our front step.įrom the flappers of the jazz era to a garment district second only to New York…įrom the cowboys of the Wild West to the gangsters of prohibition…įrom the first rail crossing of the Missouri River to the birth of Kansas City Bar B Que… Over the last 100 years, this beautiful, old saloon building at 10th and Broadway has been at the epicenter of the growth of Kansas City and witnessed the tremendous contributions the city has made to American history. The Majestic Restaurant is housed in the Historic Fitzpatrick’s Saloon Building in downtown Kansas City. The Majestic and The History of Downtown Kansas City
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