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Feature 329: 406 North Pleasant Street (in 2011)

Queen Anne style house

Classification: Contributing. Historic Name: Palmer House. Architectural Style: Queen Anne. Construction Date: 1890. Period 2 of Harry S Truman’s Life: Establishing Community Roots, 1890-1919. Tax Identification: 26-220-19-06. Legal Description: Pleasant Place, lot 18. Description: Contributing one- and one-half story wood-frame dwelling; irregular in shape; complex intersecting gabled roof with decorative stickwork in gabled ends, clad with composition shingles; clapboard siding; one-over-one double-hung sash wood windows; wrap-around porch on facade and south elevation with turned posts and decorative stickwork under eaves; projecting bay window on south elevation; uncoursed cut stone foundation with daylight basement. Lot with lawn slopes gently to rear; shrubbery planted along foundation; large paved parking lot to the south. • Alterations: A two-story rear addition was constructed early on; there is also a small one-story side addition. History/Significance: By 1906, William L.C. Palmer, the superintendent of public schools for twenty years, and the principal of the high school for eleven years, lived in this house with his wife, Ardelia Palmer, the former Miss Ardelia Hardin, a mathematics and Latin teacher. Ardelia Palmer attended Morrisville College and was the first woman elected to public office in Independence. She organized the Jackson County Women's Democratic Club and the Browning Society; she was also a member of the Mary Paxton Study Club, and Daughters of the Confederacy. Prior to becoming principal, W.L.C. Palmer was a science teacher and taught Harry S Truman, as did his wife, Ardelia Hardin. Ardelia Palmer also taught Bess Wallace and Charlie Ross, President Truman's press secretary. The Palmers had two [sic] daughters (Helen Cranston, Elizabeth Thompson, and Suzanne Palmer) and two sons (William and Wallace). The Palmers continued their residence in the house until sometime after 1968.

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