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Feature 041: 218 North Delaware Street (in 2011)

Bungalow style house

Classification: Contributing. Historic Name: Johnson/King House. Architectural Style: Bungalow. Construction Date: 1925. Period 3 of Harry S Truman’s Life: Developing Political Skills and Associations, 1920-1933. Tax Identification: 26-340-02-09. Legal Description: Moore's Addition, part of lot 4. Description: Contributing one-story wood-frame dwelling; rectangular in shape; intersecting gabled roof with composition shingles; clapboard siding; porch across main facade under projecting gabled roof with boxed cornice at gable ends; double-hung sash wood windows; concrete foundation with daylight basement. Elevated lot; lawn and shrubs planted along foundation. History/Significance: The original owner of this house, built in 1925, along with two other Bungalows on adjoining property occupied by the demolished Anthony and Maria Slack mansion, is not known at present. All three Bungalows were initially rental properties. Roy Johnson, stonemason and owner of Johnson and Sons Monuments at 224 West Maple Avenue [Feature 255], may have been the first occupant of this house. Oscar E. King occupied the house in 1930. Four years later, Lida B. Robertson, daughter of Jennie and James Calvin Budd, a farmer, occupied the house. C.E. Jack Anderson resided there in the late 1930s. Caroline Cushwa, long-time resident of Independence and active in the Independence War Mothers and United Daughters of the Confederacy, resided here at 218 North Delaware briefly, before her death in February of 1941. Mary M. O'Reilly had purchased and moved into the house by the mid-1940s and remained there for many years.

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