Welcome to Honey Shuck
The Champ Clark House – A National Historic Landmark in Bowling Green, Missouri
The Champ Clark House is the Bowling Green, Missouri residence of The Honorable Champ Clark—congressman from Missouri’s Ninth District who presided as Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives from 1911 to 1919. His son, Bennett Clark, was raised here and went on to distinguish himself as co-founder of The American Legion and U. S. Senator from the Show-Me State. Other notable family members, including the Speaker’s famous daughter Genevieve, resided here as well.
When they moved to the house in 1898, Champ and his wife, Genevieve, named it Honey Shuck,… for the seed-pods of the locust trees in the yard.
Now a National Historic Landmark and regional museum, the Clarks’ home is open to the public with collections that interpret not only the personal lives and political legacies of the Clark family, but the remarkable records and rich heritage of public service by elected office-holders from Pike County and Northeast Missouri.
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Ongoing Restorations
Old paint has been removed from the south and east exterior walls at Honey Shuck, the Bowling Green home of former U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives and presidential…
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Do you want to know more about Champ Clark and why his home, Honey Shuck, is a National Historic Landmark? Do you have out of town guests coming for a…
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Champ Clark statue damaged at the U.S. Capitol
KHQA news reports about damage caused to the statue here on youtube.
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Old Champ Clark Bridge Demolition
Spectators watch as explosive demolition charges on the eastern portion of the old Champ Clark Bridge are set off to drop the steel trusses of the bridge into the Mississippi…
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