Norma Bonniwell

Bonniwell planned buildings in North Carolina and South Carolina,^[4] including a church,^[5] a hotel, and private residences,^[6] 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.^[7] 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.^[8] She opened an architecture office in Raleigh in 1899.^[9]

• Thomas B. Finley House, designed 1893, 1014 E St. North Wilkesboro, North Carolina,^[10] listed in the National Register of Historic Places^[11]
• A building at Lenoir College in Hickory, North Carolina^[10]
• W. A. Thomas House, 302 West End Avenue, Statesville, North Carolina^[10]
• Cabinet (1893), for the Woman's Building, Chicago World's Exposition^[7]
• Mantel (1895), gift to the state of Georgia^[8]
• First Methodist Episcopal Church South (1895–1896), Hickory, North Carolina^[12]
• Poston, Boshamer, and Thomas houses (1897) in Iredell, North Carolina^[6]

Bonniwell lived in Hickory^[13] and Windsor, North Carolina. She sang in a "Scotch Musicale" given by the St. Cecilia Society in Hickory in 1898.^[14] She married William Peele King in November 20, 1901.^[15] Their son William Bonniwell King was president of the North Carolina Society of Professional Engineers.^[16] She died in 1961, at the age of 84, at Bertie Memorial Hospital in Windsor.^[17]