{{Short description|American architect}}{{Infobox person | name = Norma Bonniwell | birth_date = January 23, 1877 | birth_place = North Carolina, U.S. | death_date = December 24, 1961 (age 84) | death_place = Windsor, North Carolina, U.S. | occupation = Architect, furniture designer }}
'''Norma May Bonniwell''' '''King''' (January 23, 1877 – December 24, 1961) was an American architect who worked with her father, George C. Bonniwell, in the firm of '''Bonniwell and Daughter''' in North Carolina. She is credited with design of one building that is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Works by Bonniwell were exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, and at the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta in 1895.
== Early life == Norma Bonniwell was born in North Carolina, the daughter of George Capes Bonniwell and Kate Snedaker Bonniwell. Her father was an industrialist and architect from Philadelphia.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1965-09-11 |title=Hickory's 'Father Of Industry' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hickory-daily-record-hickorys-father-o/158387221/ |access-date=2025-06-26 |work=Hickory Daily Record |pages=128 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Hawkins |first=Betty |date=1968-08-03 |title=Bonniwell Family Had Front Row Seat in History |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/news-press-bonniwell-family-had-front-ro/175308177/ |access-date=2025-06-26 |work=News-Press |pages=7 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Her sister Josephine<ref>{{Cite web |title=Josephine Bonniwell Lyerly (1879–1964) |url=https://www.hickoryart.org/blog/josephine-bonniwell-lyerly |access-date=2025-06-26 |website=Hickory Museum of Art |language=en-US}}</ref> and brother James also worked in architecture, and her brother WIlliam Clarence Bonniwell was a builder and orange grower in Florida.<ref name=":0" />
== Works == Bonniwell planned buildings in North Carolina and South Carolina,<ref>{{Cite news |date=1896-04-02 |title=Neighborhood News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morganton-herald-neighborhood-news/175335374/ |access-date=2025-06-26 |work=The Morganton Herald |pages=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> including a church,<ref>{{Cite news |date=1965-09-11 |title=Methodists to Note Anniversary |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hickory-daily-record-methodists-to-note/175333367/ |access-date=2025-06-26 |work=Hickory Daily Record |pages=41 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> a hotel, and private residences,<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |date=1897-02-23 |title=Plans for New Residences |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/statesville-record-and-landmark-plans-fo/175335860/ |access-date=2025-06-26 |work=Statesville Record and Landmark |pages=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> as a member of her father's architecture firm. She also designed architectural elements. Her design for an elaborately carved cabinet was part of the North Carolina display at The Woman's Building during the Chicago World's Exposition in 1893.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |date=1893-04-23 |title=The 'Home-Spun' Room; a Charming Fancy for the Fair |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-charlotte-observer-the-home-spun-r/175334175/ |access-date=2025-06-26 |work=The Charlotte Observer |pages=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She designed a special mantel made of native North Carolina woods, given by the state of North Carolina to Georgia for the Cotton States and International Exposition in 1895.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=1895-10-09 |title=The Mantel Finished; North Carolina's Guft to Georgia Went Forward Yesterday; The Mantel |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-charlotte-observer-the-mantel-finish/175332922/ |access-date=2025-06-26 |work=The Charlotte Observer |pages=4}}</ref> She opened an architecture office in Raleigh in 1899.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1899-05-05 |title=Norma Bonniwell |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/statesville-record-and-landmark-norma-bo/175335979/ |access-date=2025-06-26 |work=Statesville Record and Landmark |pages=2 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> *Thomas B. Finley House, designed 1893, 1014 E St. North Wilkesboro, North Carolina,<ref name="ncarchitects">{{cite web |author1=William B. Bushong |author2=Angie Clifton |author3=Laura A. W. Phillips |author4=Catherine W. Bishir |date=2009 |title=Bonniwell, Norma N. (1877-1961) |url=https://ncarchitects.lib.ncsu.edu/people/P000142 |website=North Carolina Architects ad Builders: A Biographical Dictionary |publisher=North Carolina State University Libraries}}</ref> listed in the National Register of Historic Places<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> *A building at Lenoir College in Hickory, North Carolina<ref name="ncarchitects" /> *W. A. Thomas House, 302 West End Avenue, Statesville, North Carolina<ref name="ncarchitects" /> *Cabinet (1893), for the Woman's Building, Chicago World's Exposition<ref name=":3" /> *Mantel (1895), gift to the state of Georgia<ref name=":1" /> *First Methodist Episcopal Church South (1895–1896), Hickory, North Carolina<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cox |first=A. J. |date=1934-05-05 |title=A History of the First Methodist Episcopal Church South, in Hickory, N.C., 1866 to 1934 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hickory-daily-record-a-history-of-the-fi/175332721/ |access-date=2025-06-26 |work=Hickory Daily Record |pages=2 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> *Poston, Boshamer, and Thomas houses (1897) in Iredell, North Carolina<ref name=":2" />
== Personal life == Bonniwell lived in Hickory<ref>{{Cite news |date=1899-05-03 |title=Local News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-mercury-local-news/175334869/ |access-date=2025-06-26 |work=The Times-Mercury |pages=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and Windsor, North Carolina. She sang in a "Scotch Musicale" given by the St. Cecilia Society in Hickory in 1898.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1898-05-25 |title=Scotch Musicale |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-mercury-scotch-musicale/175334677/ |access-date=2025-06-26 |work=The Times-Mercury |pages=8 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She married William Peele King in November 20, 1901.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1901-11-27 |title=Locals |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-mercury-locals/175335019/ |access-date=2025-06-26 |work=The Times-Mercury |pages=4 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Their son William Bonniwell King was president of the North Carolina Society of Professional Engineers.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1995-03-28 |title=William B. King |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-and-observer-william-b-king/175333814/ |access-date=2025-06-26 |work=The News and Observer |pages=18 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> She died in 1961, at the age of 84, at Bertie Memorial Hospital in Windsor.<ref>Norma Bonniwell King, North Carolina death certificate, via Ancestry.</ref>
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