Feature 229:  110 South Main Street (in 2011)

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Feature 229: 110 South Main Street (in 2011)

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Classification: Contributing.
Historic Name: None found.
Architectural Style: Commercial.
Construction Date: 1907.
Period 2 of Harry S Truman's Life: Establishing Community Roots, 1890-1919.
Tax Identification: 26-230-16-17.
Legal Description: Old Town, portion of lot 69.
Description: Contributing one-story brick commercial building; flat roof with concrete coping along parapet on front facade and tile coping along crenelated parapet on south wall; large plate glass windows and contemporary door on east, front, facade. The building sits adjacent to, north of, the alley on the southeast corner of the first block on South Main Street, just south of West Lexington Avenue. It is adjoined on the north by a one-story masonry commercial building, identified as 108 South Main Street [Feature 226].
• Alterations: The front door is modern.
History/Significance: The Sanborn Fire Insurance map for 1907 shows a storage facility on this site, and the map for 1916 has a livery in this location. In 1952, the Heart of America Liquor Store operated in this commercial building. The Southwestern Investment Company/Western National Life Insurance Company was located here in 1972. Eight years later, in 1980, the space was occupied by a salon called Hair by Design.

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1890 - 1899
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National Parks Gallery
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