The Champ Clark House — known as Honey Shuck — is the preserved home of James Beauchamp Clark, the Missouri congressman who served as Speaker of the House from 1911 to 1919 and came agonisingly close to the 1912 Democratic presidential nomination. The house, a modest but handsome 19th-century structure at 207 East Champ Clark Drive, operated for decades as a house museum and remains a State Historic Site.
Clark grew up in Kentucky but spent most of his political career representing Missouri's 9th district, and this Bowling Green home was his base throughout. The interior retains period furnishings and materials relating to his long career in Congress. Even for visitors with no particular interest in Gilded Age politics, the house is a useful window into the life of small-town Missouri at the turn of the 20th century. A statue of Clark stands at the south entrance of the 1917 Pike County Courthouse on the town square.