The Loretto is a multipurpose venue in the Westport neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri.

[4] The land upon which Loretto Academy was built was purchased in September 1902 by Mother M. Praxedes Carty.

[6] The academy was the site of a fire in 1909 at a Halloween party; three students lost their lives when a paper dress became ignited by a lit jack-o'-lantern.

[2] In 1966 the site was sold to Calvary Bible College,[2] who owned it for two decades; it then passed through the hands of three owners until a 1993 foreclosure.

Its current owner, Loretto Redevelopment Corp., taking advantage of a tax abatement, has had plans for further redevelopment since 1996; as of 2011, those plans include "a hotel conversion, a small office space facing Mercier Street and two small rental buildings" on the 6-acre (2.4 ha) site.