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When Truman left the White House in 1953, he established an office in Room 1107 of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City at 925 Grand Avenue. When the library opened in 1957, he transferred his office to the facility and often worked there five or six days a week. [ 15 ]
925 Grand is the former headquarters of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Kansas City Fed). It was the oldest Federal Reserve Bank building in active use until 2008, when the Kansas City Fed moved out. [citation needed] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. [4] In 1913 Kansas City and St. Louis had a fierce ...
Wallace House (also called the Truman Home), 219 North Delaware Street, Independence, Missouri, would be the home of Harry S. Truman, on-and-off, after his marriage to Bess Wallace, on June 28, 1919, until his death on December 26, 1972. Bess Truman's maternal grandfather, George Porterfield Gates, built the house over a period of years from ...
Former President George W. Bush’s paintings will be on display soon at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum in Independence. “Portraits of Courage,” a large collection of oil ...
As of 2007, more than 8000 employees worked in the Truman Building. [8] The building houses 1.4 million square feet (130,000 m 2 ) to 1.507 million square feet (140,000 m 2 ) of usable space, [ 9 ] [ 10 ] the corridors take up over 267,000 square feet (24,800 m 2 ), and the roof area is about seven acres (28,000 square meters).
The Harry S. Truman Farm Home is located 15 miles (24 km) away from Independence in Grandview, Missouri. A National Historic Landmark, the farmhouse at 12301 Blue Ridge Blvd. was built in 1894 by Harry Truman's maternal grandmother, and is the centerpiece of a 5.25 acres (2.12 ha) remnant of the family's former 600-acre (240 ha) farm. Truman ...
Truman died on Dec. 26, 1972 — exactly 50 years ago. The following morning, as Independence prepared for a presidential funeral, Pritchard, then 15, grabbed the family’s Super 8 video camera ...
President Harry S. Truman had his office in Room 1107 of the building from when he left the Presidency in 1953 until the Truman Library was completed in 1957. [ 2 ] In 2002, the bank announced plans to build a new facility at 1 Memorial Drive 20 blocks south at 29th and Main on 15.6 acres (63,000 m 2 ) on a hilltop south of the Liberty Memorial .