Classification: Contributing.
Historic Name: Tomky/Zimmer House.
Architectural Style: Bungalow.
Construction Date: ca. 1928.
Period 3 of Harry S Truman's Life: Developing Political Skills and Associations, 1920-1933.
Tax Identification: 26-220-20-03.
Legal Description: Independence Annex, block 20, lot 03.
Description: Contributing one-story wood-frame dwelling; rectangular in shape; hipped roof with composition shingles; weatherboard siding; three-over-one double-hung sash wood windows; projecting gable roof porch with square columns extending across center portion of facade; concrete foundation with daylight basement. Slightly elevated lot with lawn; shade trees in rear yard; hedges along facade foundation.
• Alterations: Porch balustrade altered.
• Contributing one-story wood-frame hip roof garage dating from period of house construction [Feature 147].
History/Significance: Arthur Tomky may have been the first resident of this Bungalow style house, built around 1928. Tomky and Frank Martin occupied the house in 1930. In the 1940s and 1950s, the family of Granville and Walter M. Zimmer lived there.
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