Wright on Main

02/12/2026

(W)right on! We’ve got an actual logo now!

01/15/2026

We recently hosted a group from of students from St. Teresa's Academy as part of the interim class in architecture. Judy Robinette, our board secretary, led the tour - she's loaded with great information, technical and anecdotal.

Wright on Main will begin to offer organized, scheduled tours of Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Community Christian Church in 2026. Stay tuned for more info!

And thank you to the ladies of St. Teresa's - we hope you had a fun time!

11/21/2025

Elizabeth and Jan are in Philadelphia meeting up with other recipients of this year’s Fund For Sacred Places grants, including the team from Bethany Lutheran Church in Lindsborg, Kansas. (They all got to test out George Washington’s pew at Christ Church.)

Along with meeting people from Seattle, New Hampshire, Boston, and Maine, they were introduced to staff members from the fund, including Rachel Hildebrandt, senior Director of the National Fund for Sacred Places.

11/19/2025

Elizabeth and Jan are in Philadelphia for training and program orientation with the National Fund for Sacred Spaces. The Fund holds the training for each year’s cohort of grantees and helps us better understand the timeline and requirements of the grant; provides expertise on capital campaign fundraising (we are required to match the $160k grant we received); and so we can get to know and network with our peers.

We are so grateful for this opportunity. Many thanks, and !

10/28/2025

FOX4 News Kansas City stopped by Community Christian Church!

We loved seeing Jan Marcason and Judy Robinette share their passion for preserving our Frank Lloyd Wright church. Their dedication as board members of Wright on Main is helping keep this Kansas City landmark thriving.

If you haven't already seen the clip, you can watch it here: https://fox4kc.com/news/historic-kansas-city-church-receives-major-grant-for-restoration/

Jan and Judy were instrumental in Wright on Main receiving a $160,000 grant form the Partners for Sacred Places and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It's a matching grant, so if you have the capacity, please help us reach our goal: https://www.wrightonmain.com/get-involved 💙

Community Christian Church, located on Main Street, will undergo critical repairs thanks to a $160,000 grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

10/23/2025

We made the front page of The Kansas City Starthekansascitystar today! Thank you, Eric Adler for the great story about our $160,000 grant from the Partners for Sacred Places and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

This is a matching grant, so we have to come up with an additional $160K to complete weatherization of our historic - and extremely unique - Frank Lloyd Wright building.

If you want to help out, you can donate through our website, www.wrightonmain.org, or through Venmo (reach out if you prefer to donate another way.)

Congrats to all of this year's grant recipients!

10/21/2025

Big news!!

We have received a $160,000 grant from the National Fund for Sacred Places, a program within the Partners for Sacred Places in collaboration with the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

As The Kansas City Star reporter Eric Adler says, "When famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed what is now the modern, white Community Christian Church just east of Kansas City’s County Club Plaza, he reportedly declared it to be fireproof, earthquake proof and vermin proof. Waterproof, not so much."

This grant will help us secure the building from further water damage. Thank you to Partners for Sacred Places and The National Trust for helping us maintain our unique piece of American history!

The church, known for its ‘Steeple of Light” at 4601 Main, had sustained significant water damage over 83 years.

10/08/2025

THIS WEEKEND - OCTOBER 11, 2025 at 1 PM: Join KCMODERN for a tour of the two most important examples of Modernist religious architecture in Kansas City. The tour includes access to our very own Community Christian Church by Frank Lloyd Wright and St. Francis Xavier Church by Barry Byrne (an apprentice to Wright.)

These churches from 1942 and 1950 respectively represent the post WWII movement away from the traditional ecclesiastical styles such as Gothic, Romanesque and Classical. Going forward from this point Modernism would be the style du jour for Kansas City Sacred Architecture. Both of these churches were recognized recently for their importance with listings on the National Register of Historic Places and we are fortunate to have the people responsible for shepherding these projects through that process acting as our guides to these magnificent examples of Modern Places of Worship.

$20/person

Advanced registration is required.

Join KCmodern for a tour of the two most important examples of Modernist religious architecture in Kansas City. The tour includes access to Community Christian Church by Frank Lloyd Wright and St. Francis Xavier Church by Barry Byrne, who was an apprentice to Wright. 

06/19/2025

We are Bronze Plaque Official!

The Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Community Christian Church in Kansas City was listed on the National Register of Historic Places back at the end of 2020. It was listed under criterion C for reflecting a distinctive architectural style and being a recognized work of a master designer.

Wright's design is a bold experiment in sacred architecture by none other than Frank Lloyd Wright. Built in 1941, this is one of only eight churches ever designed by Wright and the only non-residential Wright building in the Kansas City.

It’s also the first of his designs to use an equilateral parallelogram grid instead of a square, creating a hexagonal structure full of unusual angles, cantilevered balconies, and sweeping horizontal lines. His vision for the church was futuristic, down to the concrete dome on the roof meant to project a “steeple of light” into the sky.

The church embodies Wright’s belief that architecture should be rooted in its site—its irregular shape responds directly to the oddly shaped lot near the Country Club Plaza.

Inside, Wright played with the sensation of movement through space: tight, angled corridors give way to soaring, light-filled rooms. From its innovative use of sprayed concrete (gunite) to its continuous flowing surfaces and sculptural forms, the Community Christian Church stands as a masterwork of mid-century modern design—and a rare expression of spiritual space through modernist principles.

As with other Wright buildings, we've got a list of maintenance projects that came before the plaque. And we have another long list after it! If you would like to learn more about the building and how you can help, check out the link in our bio.

04/16/2025

01/23/2025

Test run on the KCMO streetcar extension that cruises past the church!

01/23/2025

Test run of the KCMO streetcar extension that cruises past the church!