Feature 130: 811 North Delaware Street (in 2011)

Classification: Contributing.
Historic Name: Pettigrew House.
Architectural Style: Modern (Ranch).
Construction Date: ca. 1966.
Period 5 of Harry S Truman's Life: Serving as Elder Statesman, 1953-1971.
Tax Identification: 26-310-12-05.
Legal Description: McCauley Park Addition, block 10, lot 10 and part of lot 9.
Description: Contributing one-story wood-frame dwelling with attached single-car garage; rectangular in shape; gabled roof with composition shingles; weatherboard siding; small concrete porch on facade protected by awning; concrete foundation. Lot, with lawn and some foundation shrubbery, slopes toward the rear. McCoy Park lies to the east.
History/Significance: Lorenza and Willa Pettigrew moved into this house soon after its construction around 1966. On a summer day of that year, former President Truman and his bodyguard, Mike Westwood, were walking along North Delaware Street and paused to greet Lorenza Pettigrew as he watered freshly laid sod around his new house here at 811 North Delaware Street. "Mr. Pettigrew, glad to have you for a neighbor," Truman said, as Alversia Pettigrew recalled many years later. Lorenza Pettigrew worked as a machine operator at Remington Arms. The Pettigrews lived in the house into the 1970s.