Feature 019: 721 North Cottage Avenue (in 2011)

Classification: Contributing.
Historic Name: Gaulter House.
Architectural Style: Bungalow.
Construction Date: ca. 1910.
Period 2 of Harry S Truman’s Life: Establishing Community Roots, 1890-1919.
Tax Identification: 26-310-13-03.
Legal Description: McCauley Park Addition, block 5, lot 3.
Description: Contributing one- and one-half story wood-frame dwelling; irregular shape; hipped roof with broad overhanging eaves and exposed rafters, along with knee braces, clad with composition shingles; synthetic siding; double-hung sash wood windows; gabled roof porch across facade; concrete foundation with daylight basement. Sloping lot with ivy along sidewalk; large shade trees.
• Alterations: Synthetic siding has been added.
• Noncontributing one-story wood-frame garage with low-pitched gabled roof probably built after the district's period of significance [Feature 020].
History/Significance: The original owners/occupants of this Bungalow style house, built around 1910, are not known at present. The William Gaulter family lived there in the early 1920s. Herman Denkler resided there in the 1930s. In the 1940s and 1950s, Dale J. Cutler owned and occupied the house.