Feature 073: 427 North Delaware Street (in 2011)

Classification: Contributing.
Historic Name: Weeks/Horn House.
Architectural Style: Bungalow.
Construction Date: ca. 1912.
Period 2 of Harry S Truman’s Life: Establishing Community Roots, 1890-1919.
Tax Identification: 26-310-22-04.
Legal Description: Zick's Addition, lot 1.
Description: Contributing two- and one-half story wood-frame dwelling; rectangular in shape; hipped roof with boxed bellcast eaves and decorative brackets; hipped roof dormer on facade; all clad with composition shingles; clapboard siding; one-over-one double-hung sash windows; full-width gable roof porch with square, tapered columns, balustrade, relief "sunbeam" design in recessed porch pediment; stone foundation. Slightly sloping street-level corner lot, lawn and shade trees.
• Alterations: Porch balustrade replaced.
• Contributing one-story wood-frame hipped roof double-car garage, accessed from West Farmer Street, dating from period of house construction [Feature 074].
History/Significance: By 1920, Wilkie and Lillian Horn resided at 427 North Delaware Street. Wilkie Horn was part owner of Winters-Horn Motor Company and owned several gas stations around town as well as Horn Brothers grocery at 300 West Maple Street [Feature 256]. After Wilkie L. Horn died at home in 1936, Lillian I. Horn continued to own and occupy the house into the 1950s. Ted C. Horn, one of the Horn's two sons (the other was John), acquired ownership of the property by 1954.
Chester M. and Nellie Weeks may have had this house built around 1912. The couple occupied the house that year, along with Lysle W. Weeks, a bricklayer. Following the death of Chester Weeks around 1914, Nellie remained in the house until at least 1916, along with Frances Weeks.
Note: Although listed as Bungalow style in the original 2011 nomination form, this house could be considered Prairie School.