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Feature 040: 216 North Delaware Street (in 2011)

Queen Anne style house

Classification: Contributing. Historic Name: Noland House. Architectural Style: Queen Anne. Construction Date: 1880s. Period 1 of Harry S Truman’s Life: The Period of Pre-Significance, before 1890. Tax Identification: 26-340-02-08 (owned by the federal government). Legal Description: Moore's Addition, part of lots 4 and 5. Description: Contributing two-story wood-frame dwelling; irregular in shape; complex gable roof; clapboard siding; one-over-one double-hung sash wood windows; wrap-around porch with square posts and decorative spindle work under the eaves; brick and concrete foundation with daylight basement. Elevated lot with coursed, cut-stone retaining wall along sidewalk; alley to the south; lawn and shade trees in side and rear yards. History/Significance: Harry S Truman had a long and intimate relationship with the Noland family. Margaret Ellen (Ella) Noland, the sister of Harry Truman's father, remained his favorite aunt throughout his life. The Noland House served as the place for spontaneous as well as planned Noland and Truman family gatherings. The Noland House, located directly across the street from the Gates-Wallace-Truman House at 219 North Delaware Street [Feature 042], became the primary site of Truman's courtship with Bess Wallace, during his years as a farmer in Grandview (1906-1914). Aunt Ella's daughters, Nellie and Ethel Noland, who were Harry's age, became his closest young playmates, school study partners, confidantes and friends, and later, observers and supporters of his political career. Ethel Noland, the family genealogist, played an invaluable role in recording the Truman family history for Harry Truman during his years in the public spotlight. Harry Truman maintained his close relationship with the Noland sisters throughout his life. The National Park Service now owns the home and interprets it as part of the Harry S Truman National Historic Site. The Noland family contributed to the economic, political, and cultural vitality of Independence in numerous ways during their tenure at 216 North Delaware Street. The Nolands bought the property in 1908 and it remained in the family until 1986. Joseph Noland engaged in real estate for many years, and also served on the Independence City Council in the 1910s. Two Noland daughters, Nellie and Ethel Noland, taught in the Independence and Kansas City public schools for over fifty years. Both sisters, as well as their mother, Ella Truman Noland, played an active role in the Independence literary, historical, and religious communities. Ardis Ragland Haukenberry, granddaughter of Joseph and Ella Noland, who occupied the Noland House alone from 1973 to 1986, perpetuated the Noland family's involvement in the city's religious and historical community. The Noland House at 216 North Delaware Street was probably constructed over a twenty-year period, between the late 1850s and the 1880s. Frederick Yeager, early and long-term Independence builder and contractor, may have constructed the original core of the house between 1858 and the end of the Civil War. Anthony Slack, prominent Independence merchant for many years, who occupied the house from late 1865 to 1885, probably "modernized" the future Noland House, transforming it into a modestly decorated Queen Anne style dwelling in the mid-1880s, when the Slack family moved from the house to their palatial new home on an adjoining parcel. Anthony Slack and his wife, Maria Moore Slack, rented the family's old home for the next twenty years. In the summer of 1900, Joseph T. Noland and his wife, Margaret Ellen (Ella) Truman, and family began renting the old Slack residence.

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Harry S. Truman National Historic Site, Code: HSTR

Harry S. Truman National Historic Site
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