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514 North Pleasant Street

Image of the Queen Anne-style Hatten House.

Resource 356 514 North Pleasant Street (in 2011) Classification: Contributing. Historic Name: Hatten House. Architectural Style: Queen Anne. Construction Date: ca. 1890 (moved to this location in 1907). Period 2 of Harry S Truman’s Life: Establishing Community Roots, 1890-1919. Tax Identification: 26-220-18-05. Legal Description: McCoy Place, lot 23. Description: Contributing two-story wood-frame dwelling; irregular in shape; complex hipped and gabled roof with boxed cornice at bellcast gable ends and decorative brackets and dentils under eaves, clad with composition shingles; synthetic clapboard siding; one-over-one double-hung sash synthetic windows; wrap-around porch across façade and side elevation with hipped roof supported by square wood columns on cut stone piers with cut stone balustrade; cut stone foundation with daylight basement. Lot with lawn slopes to the rear; shrubs line the house foundation; shade trees stand in the front and side yards. • Alterations: House moved to its present location in 1907 from the site of Palmer Junior High School, located in the 200 block of North Pleasant Street [Resource 324]; decorative brackets and dentils probably added; synthetic siding and windows added. • Property also includes a contributing wood-frame two-car garage with hipped roof located in the rear yard [Resource 357]. History/Significance: Joseph B. Hatten lived in the house in 1916 with his wife, Hester Hatten, and Lucile Hatten (Mrs. Proctor H. Kerr). Joseph was active in Independence civic affairs for thirty years. Born in Kentucky in 1869, he moved to Independence in 1905 and was a partner with W.O. Porter in the Independence Ice and Cold Storage Company for twelve years, after which he owned an automobile parts business. He served as president of the Commercial Club, he was a Mason, and a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church [Resource 266]. Joseph died on November 28, 1935, at the age of 69. The 1950 city directory reports Mrs. Hester Hatten as the owner and occupant; the 1952 directory reports the house is vacant. By 1954, Ralph Tyson had purchased and moved into the house.

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Harry S. Truman National Historic Site, Code: HSTR

514 North Pleasant Street, Independence, Harry S. Truman National Historic Site, Jackson County, Missouri
Latitude: 38.9012985229492, Longitude: -94.5307006835938

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