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Feature 148: 419 West Farmer Street (in 2011)

Italianate style house

Classification: Contributing. Historic Name: Patton/Caldwell House. Architectural Style: Italianate. Construction Date: ca. 1890. Period 2 of Harry S Truman's Life: Establishing Community Roots, 1890-1919. Tax Identification: 26-220-20-04. Legal Description: Independence Annex, block 20, lot 04. Description: Contributing two-story wood-frame dwelling; rectangular in shape; hipped roof with composition shingles; narrow clapboard siding; one-over-one double-hung sash wood windows; hip roof porch with square wood posts and decorative dentils under eaves extending across facade; daylight basement. Slightly elevated lot with lawn; small shrubbery along foundation; large shade tree in side yard. • Alterations: Window trim altered; porch posts and dentils probably new additions. History/Significance: The Patton family may have been the first occupants of this 1890s house. Rebecca Patton, the family matriarch, was born in Pennsylvania around 1845 and came to Missouri with her parents, founders of Robinson & Crooks Iron Foundry, at age twelve. Apparently widowed by the early 1900s, she lived at 419 West Farmer with a son, James Vincent, a meat cutter, a daughter, Mary, a teacher, and S. Fannie, also a teacher. Rebecca M. Patton died at age eighty-five in 1929, long after leaving this house at 419 West Farmer Street. By 1911, the Caldwell family, consisting of Fannie C., Ruth, and James S. Caldwell, lived there and remained in the house through the 1910s. Fannie Caldwell taught at her father's subscription school, then in Jackson County schools. Her niece, Ruth D. Caldwell, worked as a stenographer, and James S. Caldwell clerked. Fannie Caldwell died in 1936 at age seventy-nine; her daughter, Ruth, died three months later at age sixty-one. In the 1920s, the family of John S. Everett lived in this house. The Frederick A. Lowe family owned and occupied the house in the 1940s and 1950s.

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