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Feature 104: 631 North Delaware Street (in 2011)

Prairie School style house

Classification: Contributing. Historic Name: Peters House. Architectural Style: Prairie School. Construction Date: ca. 1905. Period 2 of Harry S Truman's Life: Establishing Community Roots, 1890-1919. Tax Identification: 26-310-21-05. Legal Description: McCauley Park Addition, block 2, lot 17. Description: Contributing two- and one-half story wood-frame dwelling; irregular in shape; hipped roof and hipped dormers, with bellcast flare over broad overhanging eaves, clad with composition shingles; shingle siding; one-over-one double-hung sash windows; hipped porch roof supported by round wood columns across facade; stone foundation. Lot with lawn slopes gently down in rear; shade trees in front and side yards. • Alterations: The porch floor (cement) and balustrade have been altered; siding altered; one-story shed-roof addition on north side wall near rear. • Contributing one-story wood-frame garage dates to period of significance [Feature 105]. History/Significance: By 1924, Mize R. Peters resided here until the mid-1950s. (The Peters had lived at 305 North Delaware [Feature 048] in the early 1920s.) The son of W.T. and Annie Mize Peters, Mize Peters was a boyhood friend of Harry Truman. He and his wife maintained a close friendship with Bess and Harry Truman throughout their lives. Mize Peters, like his father and uncle, became a well-regarded businessman in Independence. For many years, Peters owned and operated a drugstore on the southeast corner of the Courthouse Square, known as Peters Pharmacy. He also was active in the Boy Scouts, serving as a district chair and later, an honorary chairman. The original owners/occupants of this house are not known with certainty. William P. and LaVergne T. Bryson lived at 631 North Delaware in 1908, followed by Abram B. Peer, manager of Peer Supply Company, and his family around 1911. Wycoop Kiersted was a resident in the late 1910s and in 1920.

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