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Feature 159: 608 West Farmer Street (in 2011)

Colonial Revival style house

Classification: Contributing. Historic Name: Watkins/Wright House. Architectural Style: Colonial Revival. Construction Date: ca. 1914. Period 2 of Harry S Truman's Life: Establishing Community Roots, 1890-1919. Tax Identification: 26-340-21-17. Legal Description: McCauley Addition, part of lots 8 and 9. Description: Contributing one- and one-half story wood-frame dwelling; rectangular in shape; gambrel roof with shed roof dormer, clad with composition shingles; wide synthetic siding; one-over-one double-hung sash windows; porch with hipped roof across facade; brick foundation with daylight basement. Lot with lawn and foundation shrubbery sloping gently down on the east side; shade trees in the rear. • Alterations: Siding added; enclosed screened porch. History/Significance: Charles Watkins may have had his house built around 1914. Watkins and E. Lloyd worked together as barbers at 115 South Main Street on the Courthouse Square [Feature 232] in the 1910s. Ellis and Alice Belle Nesbitt Wright bought this house in the late 1910s and lived there into the 1930s. Ellis Wright, born in 1868 in Independence, joined William Southern and Edward Freeman to form the Examiner Printing Company in 1891. Wright married Alice Belle Nesbitt in 1902. The couple raised two sons: George Ellis and Earl Emmett. Alice Wright died in 1938; Ellis Wright died in 1940. Gail B. Wilson owned and occupied the house in the 1940s and 1950s.

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