Feature 465: 318 North Union Street (in 2011)

Classification: Contributing.
Historic Name: Rudge/Hulse House.
Architectural Style: Colonial Revival.
Construction Date: 1911.
Period 2 of Harry S Truman’s Life: Establishing Community Roots, 1890-1919.
Tax Identification: 26-310-28-01.
Legal Description: Woodland Place Addition, lots 15 and 16.
Description: Contributing two- and one-half story wood-frame dwelling; irregular in shape; hipped roof with composition shingles; wood weatherboard siding; double-hung sash vinyl windows; porch with gabled roof and boxed cornice at bellcast gable ends, supported by square tapered columns on brick piers; concrete foundation with daylight basement. This corner lot has small shrubs along the house foundation and shade trees in the yard.
• Alterations: Weatherboard siding was added; additions made to the rear.
History/Significance: This house was probably built around 1910. Margaret and James Rudge may have been its first occupants. By 1916, the house was occupied by Charles A. Brown, a stenographer, and F.D. Hulse, who probably owned the house. Martinez Kimsey and family lived in the house in the late 1910s, until they moved next door to 316 Union [Feature 464] around 1920. Thurston C. Hulse and his wife, Hallie Hope Hulse, lived at 318 North Union for many years. Thurston C. Hulse was active in city and county politics and served as cemetery sexton for six years, after which he was the Jackson County probation enforcement officer. Thurston was born in 1872. He and Hallie Hulse parented one son, Donald Stewart Hulse, and one daughter, Frances Hulse (Brewster). In October of 1929, Thurston Hulse suffered injuries in an automobile accident, which ultimately led to his death on August 25, 1933. After his death, Hallie Hulse continued to live in the house until at least 1954. Hallie Hulse was the daughter of James K. Polk Steward and Jane Frances Mann. She was born in Denver, Colorado, and was an active member of the Daughters of the Revolution as well as the Browning Club (a literary association in Independence). Hallie Hulse died on October 17, 1970, as the age of ninety-seven.