Paseo YMCA

Paseo YMCA
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Kansas City, Missouri
Coordinates	39°5′25″N 94°33′53″W / 39.09028°N 94.56472°W / 39.09028; -94.56472
Built	1914
Architect	Charles Ashley Smith
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
MPS	18th and Vine Area of Kansas City MPS
NRHP reference No.	91001151[1]
Added to NRHP	September 9, 1991

The Paseo YMCA is a U.S. historic YMCA in Kansas City, Missouri.

The Paseo YMCA opened in 1914, when Julius Rosenwald encouraged Kansas Citians to raise $80,000 toward building a new YMCA.^[2] The architect of the Paseo YMCA was local architect Charles A. Smith.

In 1920 eight independent black baseball team owners met to form what would become the Negro National League.^[3]

The facility closed in the 1970s.

In 2006, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum spearheaded an effort called "Thanks a Million Buck" to renovate the building and convert it to a research center and museum. The goal to raise a million dollars was quickly reached when John "Buck" O'Neil died in October 2006.^[3] The YMCA was slated to re-open as the Buck O'Neil Education Research Center in 2007. However, that plan never came to fruition.

Citing a need for expanded museum space, the organization renewed the proposal to renovate and expand the facility on May 2, 2023, as a part of the "Pitch for the Future" campaign.^[4] Organizers now hope for a 2028 opening.

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