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Feature 071: 423 North Delaware Street (in 2011)

Bungalow style house

Classification: Contributing. Historic Name: Burton/Bridges House. Architectural Style: Bungalow. Construction Date: 1905. Period 2 of Harry S Truman’s Life: Establishing Community Roots, 1890-1919. Tax Identification: 26-310-22-05. Legal Description: Zick's Addition, lot 2. Description: Contributing two- and one-half story wood-frame and brick dwelling; rectangular in shape; gabled roof with boxed cornice at bellcast gable ends; gable roof dormer with boxed bellcast gabled ends on facade; roof clad with composition shingles; clapboard siding (second story), brick (first story); one-over-one double-hung sash windows; gabled roof porch across facade with corner posts and balustrade; stone foundation. Street-level lot, lawn, mature shade trees, foundation plantings in front. • Alterations: Porch balustrade replaced. History/Significance: By the early 1910s, the family of Joseph E. and Rosa Lee Powell Bridges lived in this house at 423 North Delaware Street. Joseph E. Bridges, a merchant, operated a grocery store, Bridges Grocery Company, with his brother, William Bridges, for twenty-five years on the Courthouse Square at 108 West Maple Avenue [Feature 241]. Active in the civic affairs of the community, Bridges also served twenty years on the Independence City Council and ten years on the school board. Joseph was a Truman political ally in eastern Jackson County. Joseph E. and Rosa Bridges raised two daughters: Virginia B. Harder and Lucille B. White. Rosa Bridges died in 1954; Joseph followed in death in 1961. Joel E. Bridges became owner and occupant of the house in the early 1950s. This house may have been built around 1905 for Emanuel P. and Bernice Burton. Bernice Burton was the widow of Levi Burton. Emanuel P. Burton, a merchant, owned E.P. Burton and Company in Independence.

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