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 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.

Harry Truman's dressing room, second floor of Truman Home.

Truman Home Second Floor Photographs

A photographic tour of the second floor of the Truman Home is now available. The images were take 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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Tour Information

The Harry S Truman National Historic Site tour information
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		Online Exhibits The site's collection consists of over 53,000 artifacts given to the National Park Service along with the Truman Home in 1983. Our online exhibits discuss a variety of topics and allow you to see artifacts that are not on view during a tour of the home. Current exhibit - Quite a Shirt, Harry! View President Truman's "wild" Tropical Sport Shirts. more...

		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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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.