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Truman worked in the mailroom wrapping newspapers at the Kansas City Star Building at the corner of 11th Street and Grand Avenue, for two weeks in August 1902. Click the building (1) for more information. |
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Truman worked in the mailroom wrapping newspapers at the Kansas City Star Building at the corner of 11th Street and Grand Avenue, for two weeks in August 1902. Click the building (1) for more information. |
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Truman worked at the National Bank of Commerce in the Journal Building at 10th and Walnut Streets from April 24, 1903 to May 15, 1905. Click the bank (2) for more information. |
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In May 1905, Truman quit the National Bank of Commerce and went to work for the Union National Bank in the 104 New York Life Building at 9th Street and Baltimore Avenue. He left the Union National Bank in 1906 to take up a farmer's life on his family's farm near Grandview. Click the bank (3) for more information. |
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Truman and Eddie Jacobson opened their haberdashery on November 28, 1919 at 104 West 12th Street in the Glennon Hotel. Truman & Jacobson, which carried fine quality shirts, collars, belts, hats, ties, and other men's furnishings, failed in the economic downturn that followed World War I. Click the store (4) for more information. |
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Jackson County Courthouse Truman decided very quickly after he became county judge in 1923 that this Courthouse, at 5th and Oak Streets, was a fire hazard and needed to be replaced. Click the courthouse (6) for more information. |
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In 1931, while serving as county judge, Truman received approval from voters for a $4 million bond issue for this new courthouse, at 415 East 12th Street, which was dedicated in December 1934. Click the courthouse (7) for more information. |
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Tom Pendergast's office, identified on exterior window signs as the meeting place of the Jackson Democratic Club, was on the second floor of this very unpretentious building at 1908 Main Street. Click the building (8) for more information. |
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Truman had an office in Room 649 of this building at 811 Grand Avenue during the time he was U.S. Senator and Vice President, 1939 to 1945. Click the courthouse (9) for more information. |
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Truman had an office in Room 1107 in this building at 925 Grand Avenue from the time he left the presidency in January 1953 until the Truman Library was completed in 1957. Click the building (10) for more information. |
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The Muehlebach's Presidential Suite on the eleventh floor served as Truman's headquarters in Kansas City from the time of his vice presidential campaign in 1944 until he left the presidency in 1953. Click the hotel (11) for more information. |
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Spalding's Commercial College Truman enrolled at the College, located in the New York Life Building, 814 to 818 Delaware Street, soon after graduating from high school in 1901. Click the college (12) for more information. |
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Kansas City School of Law Truman attended this law school, at 1013 Grand Avenue, from 1923 to 1925, during the two years he was judge for the eastern district of Jackson County. Click the school (13) for more information. |
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Convention Hall Truman was a page at the 1900 Democratic National Convention, held in Convention Hall at the corner of 13th Street and Central Avenue. Later, when he was a banker in Kansas City and a farmer in Grandview, he went to piano concerts and operas there. Click the hall (14) for more information. |
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Beginning probably in the 1930s, Tom Evans, a Kansas City businessman and member of the 822 Club, frequently invited Truman to play poker in the club's private rooms on the eighth floor of the Kansas City Club on the corner of 13th Street and Baltimore Avenue. Click the club (15) for more information. |
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The barber for Truman's World War I unit, Frank Spina, cut Truman's hair for many years at this barbershop at 110 East 10th Street. Click the barbershop (16) for more information. |
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Truman ate at the Savoy Grill, on the corner of 9th Street and Central Avenue, many times in his later years, and perhaps going back at least to his years as county judge. Click the restaurant (17) for more information. |
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Truman occasionally came to this hotel, at 10th and McGee Streets, to escape from the pressures of being presiding judge. He checked in once, for example, to escape county workers at a time when he was having to lay some off. Click the hotel (20) for more information. |
Kansas City's Downtown was for much of Truman's life the center of his business activities and an important focus of his social life. Kansas City represented the boundless world of the metropolis to Harry Truman, all his life, even after he lived in and learned of grander, more pretentious places. But in retrospect, Truman's urban world in Kansas City was remarkably small, bound--with the exception of a few important places such as the old Jackson County Courthouse and Tom Pendergast's headquarters at 1908 Main Street--on the north and south by 7th and 13th Streets, and on the east and west by Oak Street and Central Avenue.
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