Champ Clark House

The Champ Clark House is the Bowling Green, Missouri residence of The Hon. 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.

Folk Victorian with modest Carpenter Gothic features, the house was and remains today a good example of small-town and middle-American life: elegance-on-the-cheap!  When they moved to the house in 1898, Champ and his wife, Genevieve, named it Honeyshuck,… 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.

Welcome to Honeyshuck!

Champ Clark House

We are in the process of developing the content for our website.  We hope that you will return to the website to learn more about Champ Clark and his beautiful home. In the meantime, we welcome your inquiries and hope that you will come and visit us.

Champ Clark House - Honeyshuck - is located at 207 East Champ Clark Drive in Bowling Green, Missouri

Open June, July and August
Tuesday - Sunday
1:30 pm to 4:00 pm
Other times by Appointment - Call 573-324-6707 or 573-324-3154
or
Email us at: info@champclark.org