Feature 302: 701 West Maple Avenue (in 2011)

Classification: Contributing.
Historic Name: Maplewood Apartments.
Architectural Style: Commercial.
Construction Date: ca. 1929.
Period 3 of Harry S Truman’s Life: Developing Political Skills and Associations, 1920-1933.
Tax Identification: 26-340-12-07.
Legal Description: Moore's Addition, part of lot 16.
Description: Contributing four-story brick apartment building; rectangular in shape; parapet conceals roof form and materials; projecting decorative cornice across facade; brown brick exterior; one-over-one double-hung sash wood windows; brick foundation with basement partly above ground (in the rear). The lot has no lawn or landscaping because the building fills almost the entire space. This building replicates the four-story apartment building immediately to the east.
• Alterations: Rehabilitated in 2000-2001 by Cohen-Esrey Housing Partners. The "Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation" was followed on the exterior.
History/Significance: The Maplewood Apartments was constructed around 1929, during a decade of accelerated apartment construction in Independence. James Oliver Hogg designed this building; George E. Randall constructed it. It replaced a large wood-frame dwelling occupied by several tenants in the early 1900s, including members of the Anderson family (Charles and Mary E. Anderson and Ernest Anderson) as well as other renters. The Maplewood Apartments had six apartments on each of three floors (in the early 1950s). Although the majority of residents were men, a few women, probably mostly widowed, resided at the Maplewood (in the 1950s). The Maplewood Apartments is nearly identical in design to its neighboring The Maples at 625 West Maple Avenue [Feature 300].