Harry S Truman National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)

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Home to a People's President

Harry Truman’s story is one of hope & frustration, choice & chance. As President, he took the US from its traditional isolationism into the age of international involvement. Visitors experience the surroundings Harry S Truman knew from his formative years as a 22-year-old youth of modest ambition through his retirement and death at age 88 as a former president of the United States.

TRUMAN HOME CLOSURE
The Truman Home will be closed for tours beginning October 19, 2009 to complete conservation and construction projects. The home will reopen in spring of 2010.

The visitor center will remain open daily from 8:30-5:00. Special ranger-guided tours of the Truman Home grounds and the Truman neighborhood will be offered during the closure. more...

Harry S Truman National Historic Site Tour Information
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Truman home dining room after wallpaper removal.

Truman Home Conservation and Construction Projects

Take a behind-the-scenes look at the preservation work going on now inside the Truman Home.
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Harry Truman's dressing room, HABS photo, 1983.

Truman Home Second Floor Photographs

A photographic tour of the second floor of the Truman Home is now available. The images were taken in 1983 as part of the Historic American Buildings Survey to document how the home looked just after Bess Truman's death.
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		Oral History Project This ongoing project was initiated in 1984 with the opening of Harry S Truman NHS. Interviews are conducted with people close to Harry and Bess Truman to gain a better understanding of their life in Independence and Grandview. more...

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Harry S Truman NHS
223 N. Main St.
Independence, Missouri 64050

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Phone

Visitor Information
(816) 254-9929

Fax

(816) 254-4491

Climate

Summer is hot and humid with occasional thunderstorms. Spring and fall are mild with moderate temperatures; rain is possible. Winter can be cold with snow or mixed precipitation.