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800 West Maple Avenue

Image of the Commercial-style National Refining Company Filling Station/Willis Garage.

Resource 308 800 West Maple Avenue (in 2011) Classification: Contributing. Historic Name: National Refining Company Filling Station / Willis Garage. Architectural Style: Commercial. Construction Date: ca. 1922. Period 3 of Harry S Truman’s Life: Developing Political Skills and Associations, 1920-1933. Tax Identification: 26-340-03-21. Legal Description: Maple Avenue Addition, lots 23 and 24. Description: Contributing one-story brick commercial building; rectangular in shape; primary hipped roof and projecting hipped roof over gas pumps, supported by heavy square brick columns; roof clad with composition shingles; brick exterior; eight-over-eight double-hung sash windows; two garage bays on west end of façade; concrete slab foundation. The large corner lot is mostly paved on the south and east sides. History/Significance: Harry Truman often stopped by the filling station, then known as the Willis Garage, on his morning walks and brought his cars here for service. The National Refining Company Filling Station first occupied this one-story gas station in the 1920s and 1930s (according to the 1924 and 1930 city directory of Independence). In the 1940s and 1950s, Ray Willis Filling Station occupied the building. The property no longer serves as an active gasoline station. The exterior remains intact, but the gas pumps and other service station equipment have been removed. The interior was rehabilitated as office space and the building was used in recent years by a local housing authority organization. It currently houses the local Habitat for Humanity organization.

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Harry S. Truman National Historic Site, Code: HSTR

800 West Maple Avenue, Independence, Harry S. Truman National Historic Site, Jackson County, Missouri
Latitude: 38.9012985229492, Longitude: -94.5307006835938

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05/01/2011 | Dates are approximate. All photographs were taken during May 2011.

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