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Amusements

• Adventure Land Park
  1001 North Riverside Road • St. Joseph, MO 64507
  816-279-4188
  A park that features Go-Karts, Mini-Golf, and Fun for all ages! Open April through October.  map

Casinos

• St. Jo Frontier Casino
  777 Winners Circle • St. Joseph, MO 64503
  816-279-7577, 800-888-2WIN
  Authentic Las Vegas style casino that offers numerous slot machines, video poker machines, and table games including blackjack, craps, Caribbean stud poker, and roulette. more...  map

Historic Homes & Buildings

• Buchanan County Courthouse
  411 Jules Street • St. Joseph, MO 64501
  816-271-1412
  Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this beautifully constructed courthouse is a rare example of late 1800's architectural design.  map

• Hall Street Historic District
  Hall Street Between 6th and 9th Streets
  A small intact 1860-1905 residential neighborhood built during St. Joseph's "Golden Age."   map

• Jesse James Home
  12th Street • St. Joseph, MO 64503
  Located on the Grounds of Patee House
  816-232-8206
  Artifacts from Jesse's life and death, including the legendary bullet hole; and those of Frank James and the Ford brothers and artifacts and information from the 1995 exhumation which proved with 99.7% certainty that the person killed in this house was Jesse James can be viewed at the Jesse James Home, where James was killed at 34 on April 3, 1882. more...  map

• Missouri Valley Trust Building (circa 1859)
  402 Felix Avenue • St. Joseph, MO 64501
  816-364-4361
  A National Historic Landmark, this stone and brick building was the oldest building west of the Mississippi to be continuously used for banking purposes. Features include cast iron pillars, ornate carved oak woodwork, historic teller cages, and a vault reinforced with railroad rails.  map

• Patee House Museum
  1202 Penn Street • St. Joseph, MO 64503
  816-232-8206
  Originally built as a 140-room hotel for the expanding West in 1858, this structure later became famous for its role as the headquarters for the Pony Express from 1860 to 1861. St. Joseph's only National Historic Landmark, Patee House was occupied by the Union Army and served as the Provost Marshal's office during the Civil War. It has been a hotel three times, a girl's college twice, and was a shirt factory for 80 years. more...  map

Historic Sites & Monuments

• Mount Mora Cemetery (circa 1851)
  824 Mount Mora • St. Joseph, MO 64501
  816-232-8471
  The oldest operating cemetery in St. Joseph, this cemetery is the final resting place for many of St. Joseph's wealthy and powerful citizens including three Missouri governors, one of the first Pony Express riders, and an English knight.  map

Libraries & Research Centers

• River Bluffs Regional Library
  927 Felix Street • St. Joseph, MO 64501
  816-232-4038
  This library provides numerous books, magazines, CDs, videocassettes, audiocassettes, prints, and audiovisual equipment. They also provide children and adult services including book talks, storytimes, and a summer reading program for children.   map

Museums & Galleries

• Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art
  2818 Frederick Boulevard • St. Joseph, MO 64506
  816-233-7003
  One of the best collections of 18th, 19th, and 20th century American art in the Midwest is located at this museum that features over 1,300 beautiful works. They also features local, regional, and national traveling exhibitions. more...  map

• Black Archives of St. Joseph
  509 South 10th • St. Joseph, MO 64501
  816-233-8471
  Features local and national Black History with exhibits. A simulated underground railroad and a reproduction kitchen of a typical black family living in the 1920's are among the displays. more...  map

• Glore Psychiatric Museum
  3406 Frederick Boulevard • St. Joseph, MO 64506
  St. Joseph State Pyschiatric Hospital
  816-387-2310, 877-387-2310
  "One of the 50 most unusual museums in the country", this nationally recognized museum features interactive displays, audiovisuals, artifacts, and documents depicting how mental illness has been treated for the past 7,500 years. more...  map

• National Military Heritage Museum
  701 Messanie • St. Joseph, MO 64501
  816-233-4231
  Located in a Harvey Ellis designed brick building that was once the city's first police station, this museum contains exhibits and artifacts that depict all branches of the Armed Forces, ranging from the Civil War to present times. more...  map

• Pony Express Museum
  914 Penn Street • St. Joseph, MO 64503
  816-279-5059
  One of the features of this museum is a three dimensional diorama that is 70 feet long and shows the different trail conditions on the 2,000 mile trek to California made by the first horse and rider of the Pony Express. more...  map

• Robidoux Row Museum
  Third & Poulin Streets
  816-232-5861
  Built in 1843 by Joseph Robidoux, the founder of St. Joseph, this museum contains exhibits that depict early St. Joseph history and Robidoux family history with many of the rooms containing family possessions.  map

• Society Of Memories Doll Museum
  12th & Penn Streets
  816-233-1420
  You'll find over 600 dolls from the 1840's to the present day, including barbies and cabbage patch kids, as well as doll houses, miniatures, trains, and many other types of toys and accessories.  map

• St. Joseph Museum, The
  1100 Charles Street • St. Joseph, MO 64502
  816-232-8471
  Located in a 19th century mansion, this museum has numerous exhibits including an internationally famous Native American collection, as well as,l exhibits on natural history and St. Joseph history. more...  map

• Twin Spires Religious Museum
  501 South 10th Street • St. Joseph, MO 64501
  816-233-8471
  A museum that offers the finest example of St. Joseph's architecture in a Gothic Revival Church. The building holds magnificent stained glass windows from Innsbruck, Austria.  map

Parks, Gardens & Zoos

• Krug Park
  St. Joseph Avenue at Karnes Road
  816-271-5500
  This park features over 150 acres that includes a natural amphitheater, a castle, children's playground, walking trails, picnic areas, a rose garden, a lagoon, and ponds.  map

Tours & Cruises

• Duncan Carriages
  1983 Beck Road • St. Joseph, MO 64503
  816-324-3768
  Enjoy a unique horse drawn carriage for any occasion with this company that also provides historic St. Joseph tours and stretch limousines. more...  map

• First Street Trolley
  816-233-6700
  Open May through October, these authentic reproduction streetcars make stops at all of the most popular and historically significant sites.   map