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Summary
Classification: Contributing.
Historic Name: Hall Building.
Architectural Style: Italianate.
Construction Date: 1870s-1880s.
Period 1 of Harry S Truman's Life: The Period of Pre-Significance, before 1890.
Tax Identification: 26-230-15-04.
Legal Description: Old Town, part of lot 61.
Description: Contributing two-story brick commercial building; rectangular in shape; flat roof concealed behind parapet with bracketed metal cornice; large plate glass display windows on the facade (ground floor); second-floor windows covered; slightly recessed entrance; stairs to the second floor ascend along the interior south sidewall. Located in mid-block on the east side of South Main about one-half block south of Courthouse; two-story buildings adjoin on the north and south walls; a sidewalk runs along the facade.
• Alterations: Cast iron storefront and side entrance restored, with transom lights, in 2002; second-floor windows re-opened; display windows altered and transom lights covered (or removed).
History/Significance: This two-story brick building probably dates from the 1870s or early 1880s. The original owners are not known at present. A meat market may have been the original occupant of the ground-floor shop; one apparently existed there from the mid-1880s to the early 1910s. The City Market (specializing in meat) operated by butcher Frank E. Hall, occupied this space around 1910. Rendering kettles sat behind the building at that time (Sanborn Company map of Independence, 1907). In the early 1910s, Harry Wyman's Cash Grocery Store occupied this shop space. By the mid-1910s, however, the ground-floor stop space stood vacant. By the late 1920s and early 1930s, the A & P Tea Company Grocery rented this shop space.