McCoy & Lykins

Kansas City

Build something real, on solid ground, meant to last.

McCoy & Lykins is a name we put only on work built the right way and made to endure. Not an industry, a standard.

Where the name comes from

The company

A name earned by how the work gets done.

McCoy & Lykins isn't defined by a single product or industry. It's defined by a standard. The name goes on work that's made honestly, set on ground you can trust, and built to hold up long after the moment that created it.

That standard isn't new. It's the same one two men set on a single corner of Kansas City almost two centuries ago: build something real, then stand behind it. We carry the name forward the way it started, as a promise about how the work gets done, not a label on whatever it happens to be this year.

Simple to say, and hard to fake. When our name is on it, it was built to last.

What we stand on

  1. Build something real.

    No shortcuts, no facades. It starts with substance you'd put your own name on, because we put ours on it.

  2. On solid ground.

    Lasting work needs a foundation. We do the unglamorous part first, so what we build has something dependable to stand on.

  3. Meant to last.

    We measure in decades, not quarters. If it won't still hold up years from now, we don't call it finished.

The story

Where the name comes from.

In 1833, a twenty-two-year-old surveyor named John Calvin McCoy built a two-story log building on the corner of what is now Westport Road and Pennsylvania Avenue. It was a trading post and a home, a supply stop for the trappers, missionaries, and wagon trains beginning their push west. That single corner would become Lot One, Block One of a town he was about to found. Historians would later call it the birthplace of Kansas City.

McCoy did not build alone. The land he platted into Westport came from his brother-in-law, Johnston Lykins, a Virginia-born missionary and self-taught doctor who had settled the same stretch of frontier. Lykins went on to become Kansas City's first mayor. Between the two of them, McCoy surveyed and built the town, and Lykins helped govern it.

One drew the lines. The other led the people inside them.

The name McCoy & Lykins is not a marketing invention. It's a deliberate continuation of a partnership that already existed, between a builder and a leader, on this exact patch of Kansas City, long before the city had its name. It carries no industry, no single product, no expiration date. It was true then, and it's true now.

Get in touch

Let's build something that lasts.

info@mccoyandlykins.com Kansas City