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Feature 289: 610 West Maple Avenue (in 2011)
Summary
Classification: Contributing.
Historic Name: Harding House.
Architectural Style: Italianate/Queen Anne.
Construction Date: ca. 1880.
Period 1 of Harry S Truman’s Life: The Period of Pre-Significance, before 1890.
Tax Identification: 26-340-01-06 and 26-340-01-07.
Legal Description: Moore's Addition, east half of lot 11.
Description: Contributing two-story wood-frame dwelling; irregular in shape; hipped roof with bellcast flare at boxed overhanging eaves; roof clad with composition shingles; synthetic exterior siding; one-over-one double-hung aluminum windows; full-width porch with hipped porch supported by brick columns across facade; brick foundation with daylight basement. Level lot with lawn and large shrubs along foundation; shade trees in side yard.
• Alterations: The original bay window was removed and front porch altered in early 1900s; alterations also made to the rear of the building; newer siding and windows added; brackets under the eaves removed.
• A contributing wood-frame hipped roof garage in rear dates from the 1910s [Feature 290].
History/Significance: From around 1910 to the late 1910s, Ralph R. Baldwin occupied the house, as did Virginia Franklin (1911 and 1912); Helen Borthwick (1912); and Edith Maltby, John P. Scholl, and Fielding B. Houchens (1916). Fielding Houchens had taken geography and history classes with Harry Truman at Maggie Phelp's house and remained a friend over the years. By 1920, Charles S. and Stella Harding lived at 610 West Maple Avenue where they remained for about two decades. Louis A. Powers lived in the house in the late 1940s and 1950s.
The original owners/occupants of this house are not known at present. The occupants of the house changed frequently in the early 1900s. In 1906, Charles W. Fuchs of Fuchs Jewelry and Optical Company on the Courthouse Square, and Marie R. MacCord, a dressmaker, lived at 610 West Maple Avenue. Two years later, the Curry family, consisting of Frank M., Michael J., and Sallie E., along with John E. Harvey, lived in the house.
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