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Feature 215:  206 North Main Street (in 2011)

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Feature 215: 206 North Main Street (in 2011)

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Classification: Contributing.
Historic Name: Clinton Building.
Architectural Style: Commercial.
Construction Date: ca. 1906.
Period 2 of Harry S Truman's Life: Establishing Community Roots, 1890-1919.
Tax Identification: 26-230-30-14.
Legal Description: Old Town, lot 10 (G.W. Clinton's Subdivision, lot 2).
Description: Contributing two-story brick commercial building; rectangular in shape, flat roof concealed by parapet with projecting cornice; brick exterior; plate-glass display windows (ground floor) and large windows four-bays wide (second floor) on east-facing facade. Located in mid-block one-half block north of the Courthouse; adjoined on north and south by two-story brick commercial buildings; a sidewalk extends along the east-facing facade.
• Alterations: Ground-floor display windows and second-story windows have been altered.
History/Significance: This building stands on the site of a kitchen and dining room, which probably served guests at the Merchants Hotel (adjoining to the south) in the 1880s and 1890s. In the mid-1890s, George Clinton, druggist, acquired the hotel, converted the interior, and incorporated the former dining room into his drug store in the Clinton Block (at the northwest corner of North Main and West Maple). In mid-February 1906, flames consumed the Clinton Block; fire destroyed the entire front of the block and caused the walls to come down, according to the February 15, 1906, issue of the "Independence Examiner.” The rear portion of the building, the site of the building at 206 North Main Street (then numbered 208 North Main Street), was also badly damaged by flames and water. It housed the Independence city offices.
In 1906-1907, a new two-story building apparently was erected on this site in concert with the construction of the new Clinton Building to the south. This new building housed a moving picture show, according to the 1907 Sanborn Company fire insurance map of Independence. Four years later, a "wardrobe cleaners" and a "nice grocery" conducted business in this building. In the mid-1910s, a clothing store occupied the ground floor of this two-story building. By the 1930s, the Factory Outlet Department Store (with an annex across the street at 207-209 North Main Street [Feature 216] did business in this building.

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