Bonniebrook Homestead is a historic homestead site located near Walnut Shade, Taney County, Missouri. It was a pioneer homestead of the O'Neill's, the first family to enter the land from the public domain as a Homestead property. It was the Ozark home of Rose O'Neill (1874–1944), inventor of the kewpie doll and illustrator of "sweet monsters".[2] She is buried on the site in the O'Neill family cemetery.[3]: 2–4 Rose O'Neill named the estate after the stream that ran near the family's original cabin.[4] The homestead burned down in January 1947. The building that exists now is a reconstruction of the original home.[5] The Bonniebrook Historical Society began reconstructing the homestead in 1975 with construction completing on the 14 room building in 1993.[4] The reconstructed building is furnished in the style typical of the era when the O'Neill family occupied the estate.[4] The property now consists of the reconstructed homestead, Bonniebrook Art Gallery, Kewpie Museum, gift shop, research library and Rose O'Neill archives [4]
Bonniebrook Homestead | |
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| Location | U.S. Route 65, near Walnut Shade, Missouri |
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| Coordinates | 36°46′24″N 93°13′11″W / 36.77333°N 93.21972°W |
| Area | 172 acres (70 ha) |
| Built | 1893 |
| NRHP reference No. | 84002720[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 29, 1997 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.[1]
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- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "Sweetest of Monsters". State Of the Ozarks Showcase. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
- ^ Robert H. Gibbons, James M. Denny, and Robert Flanders (December 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Bonniebrook Homestead" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b c d "Rose O'Neill and the Museum at Bonniebrook". The Official Site of Rose O'Neill and Bonniebrook. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
- ^ "Rose O'Neill - Historic Missourians - The State Historical Society of Missouri". historicmissourians.shsmo.org. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
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