Feature 219: 213 North Main Street (in 2011)

Classification: Contributing.
Historic Name: Sturm Furniture Company Building.
Architectural Style: Commercial.
Construction Date: 1920s.
Period 3 of Harry S Truman's Life: Developing Political Skills and Associations,
1920-1933.
Tax Identification: 26-230-02-09.
Legal Description: Old Town, north part of lot 4.
Description: Contributing one-story masonry commercial building; rectangular in shape; flat roof; large plate glass display windows; black glass in parapet. Located in mid-block one-half block north of the Courthouse; adjoined on north and south walls by commercial buildings; sidewalk along facade.
History/Significance: This building was converted to or constructed new as a one-story building from a two-story brick structure, which housed the main office and the kitchen of the Commercial Hotel, operated by James E. Hare and Robert E. Fitzsimmons in the 1890s and the early 1900s, and later, by a boot and shoe store (1910s). After the building's remodeling or reconstruction, Sturm Furniture Company became the tenant in the late 1920s and early 1930s.