a762b60d-282c-4d99-b6d1-5308e3617128

611 North Delaware Street

Image of the Prairie School-style Fonda House.

Resource 088 611 North Delaware Street (in 2011) Classification: Contributing. Historic Name: Fonda House. Architectural Style: Prairie School. Construction Date: ca. 1920. Period 3 of Harry S Truman's Life: Developing Political Skills and Associations, 1920-1933. Tax Identification: 26-310-21-10. Legal Description: McCauley Park Addition, block 2, lot 12. Description: Contributing two-story wood-frame dwelling; rectangular in shape; low-pitched hipped roof with broad overhanging eaves; wide weatherboard siding; one-over-one double-hung sash windows; hipped roof porch with wood posts on cut stone piers across façade; stone foundation. Lot with lawn and foundation shrubbery slopes gently to the rear. • Alterations: The siding is not original; balustrade has been altered. • Noncontributing wood-frame double-car garage with living quarters above probably built after period of significance [Resource 089]. History/Significance: The original owners/occupants of this house are not known with certainty. In the late 1920s and 1930s, the family of Anthony P. and Cora Fonda owned and occupied this house. Born in 1878 in Kansas City, Anthony Fonda attended Marmaduke Military Academy in Sweet Springs. A resident of Independence his entire life, Anthony P. Fonda was, for twenty-eight years, a justice of the peace at Fairmont, Sugar Creek, and Independence. He married Cora Homan in 1908; they raised two children: Nadine and Paul. Anthony Fonda died in November 1935. In the 1940s, Ed D. White owned this house; in the early 1950s, Floyd C. Carson lived at 611 North Delaware Street.

Permission must be secured from the individual copyright owners to reproduce any copyrighted materials contained within this website. Digital assets without any copyright restrictions are public domain.

NPS/Jeff Wade

Public domain:Full Granting Rights

Image

Harry S. Truman National Historic Site, Code: HSTR

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

NPS.gov Collection

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

01/01/0001

Public Can View

Thursday, September 16, 2021 1:48:49 PM

Saturday, September 18, 2021 11:44:42 AM

_088.jpg

Monday, January 1, 0001 12:00:00 AM

jpg

416.7 kB

Scenic