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210-212 North Main Street

Image of the Commercial-style Clinton Real Estate Building.

Resource 217 210-212 North Main Street (in 2011) Classification: Contributing. Historic Name: Clinton Real Estate Building. Architectural Style: Commercial. Construction Date: ca. 1900. Period 2 of Harry S Truman's Life: Establishing Community Roots, 1890-1919. Tax Identification: 26-230-03-19. Legal Description: Old Town, lot 10 (G.W. Clinton's Subdivision, lot 1). Description: Contributing two-story brick commercial building; rectangular in shape; flat roof concealed behind corbelled cornice on parapet; brick exterior; large plate glass windows (ground floor façade) and segmental arched one-over-one double-hung sash windows five bays wide (second floor façade) and on north side wall; two recessed shop entrances on façade. Located in the middle of the block with an alley to the north and adjoining commercial building to the south [Resource 215]; a sidewalk extends along east-facing façade; a parking lot is located across alley, but is outside the boundaries of the historic district. • Alterations: Decorative details on parapet and around windows probably removed; ground-floor display windows altered. A major rehabilitation/restoration that followed the Secretary of the Interior's Standards of Rehabilitation was undertaken in 1980s. History/Significance: No building stood on this site from 1885 until the early 1900s. Immediately to the south stood a kitchen, and an adjoining dining room, and at the corner of North Main and West Maple stood the Merchants Hotel (in the early 1880s and 1890s) until George Clinton purchased this property and converted the building into a drug store and business block. The building at 210-212 North Main Street was probably constructed around 1900. In the early 1900s, it housed three shops on the ground floor. Stairs to the second floor were located along the inside wall of the southernmost shop where George W. Clinton conducted a real estate business. In 1911, Sweet Springs (flour) Milling Company held forth in the northern shop. Five years later, the three-shop space contained a printer, tailor, and an office. By 1930, all three ground-floor shops appear to have been vacant. The Main Street Hotel was on the second floor above the 210 North Main Street shop. Note: In 2011, this building was addressed 208 North Main Street. –JW

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Harry S. Truman National Historic Site, Code: HSTR

210-212 North Main Street, Independence, Harry S. Truman National Historic Site, Jackson County, Missouri
Latitude: 38.9012985229492, Longitude: -94.5307006835938

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05/01/2011 | Date is approximate. All photographs were taken during May 2011.

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