Feature 280: 525 West Maple Avenue (in 2011)

Classification: Contributing.
Historic Name: William Noland House.
Architectural Style: Queen Anne (late).
Construction Date: ca. 1900.
Period 2 of Harry S Truman’s Life: Establishing Community Roots, 1890-1919.
Tax Identification: 26-230-08-04.
Legal Description: Old Town Addition, part of lot 42.
Description: Contributing one- and one-half story wood-frame dwelling; irregular in shape; cross-gabled roof with boxed cornice at bellcast gabled ends, clad with composition shingles; vinyl siding; one-over-one double-hung sash vinyl windows; porch across facade with gabled roof and boxed cornice at gabled ends supported by two massive square wood columns atop brick piers; wood balustrade; brick foundation with daylight basement. Level lot with lawn at the street, sloping gently to the rear; shade trees growing in front and rear yards.
• Alterations: Vinyl siding and vinyl windows were added in the mid-1900s.
• Contributing one- and one-half story wood-frame garage with living space above [Feature 281]; cross-gabled roof with composition shingles; double-hung sash windows in upper floor; located in rear of lot.
History/Significance: The original owners/occupants of this turn-of-the-nineteenth-century house are not known with certainty. William A. Noland, a watchman at the Independence Planning Mill and Supply Company, lived here in 1908, followed in 1912 by Garrett C. Stewart, an estimator for the Central Lumber and Manufacturing Company. George L. Compton and his daughter, Mary E. Compton, had moved into the house by the late 1910s and remained there until the late 1920s. George Compton probably died in the early 1920s. Mary Compton, born in Independence in 1863, died in January 1929 at age sixty-five. In the 1930s, James T. McFall, who worked at the "Independence Examiner," lived in the house. Perl B. Griffin resided at 525 West Maple Avenue in the 1940s and 1950s.