Bonniebrook Homestead is a historic homestead site located near
Walnut Shade,
Taney County, Missouri
Taney County is a county in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 56,066. Its county seat is Forsyth. It is included in the Branson Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Taney County was ...
. It was a pioneer homestead of the O'Neills, 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". She is buried on the site in the O'Neill family
cemetery
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many death, dead people are burial, buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek ...
.
Rose O'Neill named the estate after the stream that ran near the family's original cabin.
The homestead burned down in January 1947. The building that exists now is a reconstruction of the original home.
The Bonniebrook Historical Society began reconstructing the homestead in 1975 with construction completing on the 14-room building in 1993.
The reconstructed building is furnished in the style typical of the era when the O'Neill family occupied the estate.
The property now consists of the reconstructed homestead, Bonniebrook Art Gallery, Kewpie Museum, gift shop, research library and Rose O'Neill archives
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1997.
References
External links
Bonniebrook Gallery, Museum, and Homestead
Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri
Buildings and structures in Taney County, Missouri
National Register of Historic Places in Taney County, Missouri
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