Kritser House

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Kritser House
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Location 115 E. Walnut
Independence, Missouri
Coordinates 39°5′22″N94°24′53″W / 39.08944°N 94.41472°W / 39.08944; -94.41472 Coordinates: 39°5′22″N94°24′53″W / 39.08944°N 94.41472°W / 39.08944; -94.41472
Area less than one acre
Built 1850
NRHP reference # 85000734 [1]
Added to NRHP April 10, 1985

The Kritser House in Independence, Missouri is a building from 1850. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [1] It is found as significant for being associated with the life of Martin U. Kritser, a person significant to the history and development of the town. It is one of the few middle class residential structures of the American Mid-Victorian frontier architecture period left in Independence. [2]

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