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Bishop Hogan Center at Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

Kansas City, Missouri

The Bishop Hogan Center is a gesture of outreach.

Its architecture, siting, and programmatic mission extend the Cathedral’s presence into the surrounding community. Located at the site’s northeast corner, the building reaches out to Broadway Boulevard, reinforcing the urban edge and inviting engagement. Rather than rising vertically, the Center stretches horizontally, symbolically lowering itself in deference to the Cathedral, grounding itself in the needs of the people.

A statue of Mary at the southeast corner anchors the site’s spiritual identity, while large windows in the Event Space open the interior to the city, inviting dialog between community life and sacred space. Internally, the building’s circulation links visitors from the street to the Cathedral’s narthex, integrating civic and liturgical experience.

The lower level houses Morning Glory Ministries and parish services, grounding the building’s symbolic outreach in practical care: to connect those in need to dignity, resources, and human connection.                     

 

After developing the Parish's master plan in 2020, SFS Architecture designed the 19,000 square foot, two-story building expansion for the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception’s iconic downtown campus. The Bishop Hogan Center features the 300-seat Father Donnelly Reception Hall as well as a full catering kitchen, the Cathedral's parish offices, a gift shop, choir rehearsal room, meeting spaces, and Morning Glory Emergency Services. 

The new event space was designed to host activities for Catholics as well as the broader community, including wedding receptions, anniversaries, and ordinations, as well as musical performances, meetings, and other community events. 

Recognizing the visual and symbolic importance of the Cathedral in downtown Kansas City, the Bishop Hogan Center crouches low to avoid interrupting views to the historic structure. It is clad in monolithic natural limestone, a material used only in the foundation of the Cathedral. In this way it remains grounded, rooted to the physical world and the community it serves while the Cathedral continues to reach vertically toward heaven.
Program functions are concentrated in a new addition at the northeast corner of the site. The building extends to Broadway, reinforcing the the city's urban edge. Consolidated parking increases capacity and creates space for future site construction. Extensive landscaping beautifies and softens the open space while a new bronze statue of Mary rises above the southeast corner, reinforcing the property’s Catholic identity.
The site's obsolete structures were removed and site circulation was simplified. The Bishop Hogan Center extends east to Broadway Boulevard, figuratively reaching out to the surrounding community.
The lower level of the Bishop Hogan Center contains the Parish Office, its associated meeting and work spaces, and the new choir rehearsal room. It is also home to Morning Glory Ministries Emergency Assistance, the parish’s outreach program that provides clothing, gear, and hygiene supplies to the needy. Donors’ gifts are sorted, stored, and distributed in this location while staff councilors and volunteers assist guests in securing identification, social services, and employment.
Upon entering the Bishop Hogan Center, guests circulate through the double-height lobby and ascend to the upper level Prefunction Space. If not attending an event in the multi-function Fr. Donnelly Hall, they may continue toward the gift shop before walking through the delicate glass link and on to the Cathedral’s narthex.

The Bishop Hogan Center is home to Morning Glory Ministries Emergency Assistance, the parish’s outreach program that provides clothing, gear, and hygiene supplies to the needy. Donors’ gifts are sorted, stored, and distributed in this location while staff councilors and volunteers assist guests in securing identification, social services, and employment.

Our Team

  • Marsha Hoffman Marsha Hoffman

    Marsha Hoffman AIA, LEED AP BD+C

    Senior Principal

  • Jeff Lewis Jeff Lewis

    Jeff Lewis LEED AP BD+C

    Technical Design Director

  • Lindsay Tatro Lindsay Tatro

    Lindsay Tatro AIA, LEED AP BD+C

    Senior Project Manager, Senior Associate

  • Derek McMurray Derek McMurray

    Derek McMurray

    Senior Designer, Senior Associate

  • Kelsey Mahoney Kelsey Mahoney

    Kelsey Mahoney NCIDQ, IIDA

    Senior Interior Designer, Associate

  • Kevin Hartman Kevin Hartman

    Kevin Hartman IIDA

    Interior Designer

Our Services

  • Concept Design
  • Interior Design
  • Construction Administration
  • Architectural Design
  • Site Assessment
  • Preliminary Cost Estimating
  • Master Plan - Campus
  • Capital Campaign Support
  • Master Planning

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