10 miles from Liberty, 15 Missouri City, miles from Where Kearney Frank James got his start Missouri City Art Gallery Featuring Andy Thomas Civil War prints. Located next door to the Frank James Bank Museum Jay and Barbara Jackson, proprietors Frank James Bank Museum Missouri City Art Gallery 417 Doniphan Street Frank James 1843-1915 Missouri City MO 64072 courtesy of the Clay County Museum and Historical Society (816) 750-4380 FRANKJAMESBANK.COM Please call for appointment Prototype Frank James Bank Museum The Frank James Museum is a two story 1850’s brick building on the north bank of the Missouri River in Missouri City, Missouri. It is located ten miles south- east of the Jesse James Bank Museum in Liberty Missouri and fifteen miles south of the Frank and Jesse James home-place in Kearney, Missouri . Missouri City was a thriving steamboat port in the 1850s. The bank building, on the corner of Doniphan and Main Streets, was first a mercantile house, then a bank. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson reenactment in the mercantile. If you would like to hear more about Frank James and why he is a great part of Missouri City’s history, just ask two questions. “Why is May 19, 1863 such a important date in history?” “Unravel the myth of the Bushwacker/Outlaw at this former mercantile robbed by Frank James during the Civil War.” Frank James age 20, and his bushwacker friends, killed the Mayor of Missouri City for incarcerating the wife of a Confederate officer. They came to the mercantile in this building to get cigars. It was the first robbery and murder for Frank James. .