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Feature 347: 425 North Pleasant Street (in 2011)

Bungalow style house

Classification: Contributing. Historic Name: Gentry House. Architectural Style: Bungalow. Construction Date: ca. 1923. Period 3 of Harry S Truman’s Life: Developing Political Skills and Associations, 1920-1933. Tax Identification: 26-220-20-06. Legal Description: Pleasant Place, lot 12. Description: One-story wood-frame dwelling; rectangular shape; hip roof with composition shingles; stucco exterior; four-over-one double-hung sash windows, wood and vinyl; porch with tapered columns across facade under projecting hip roof; concrete foundation with daylight basement. Corner lot gradually slopes to the rear; hedges along sidewalks; shrubs along foundation; shade tree in front yard. • Alterations: Windows added. History/Significance: Joseph H. and Elizabeth Gentry may have been the first occupants of this house, constructed around 1923. Joseph Gentry worked as a teamster in the 1910s. Before this house was constructed, he had worked on the day force at the Jackson County Criminal Court in Kansas City. The Gentry couple lived in this house into the early 1950s (Elizabeth lived there alone between 1938 and 1950).

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