Ha Ha Tonka Mansion on the Lake with Colorful Trees, Original Pastel
Crafted using the finest quality pastels and watercolor pencils on archival paper and shipped with a super white mat ready for framing. Signed by the artist.
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About the image:
VIew of Ha Ha Tonka State Park located about five miles south ofCamdenton on the Niangua arm of the Lake of the Ozarks. The most notable feature of the park is the stone ruins of a mansion, nicknamed the "castle," because it was modeled after later European castles from the 1500s.
The Ha Ha Tonka castle was started by Robert McClure Snyder (Senior) in 1905. He was a Kansas City businessman who purchased the land known by Native Americans in the area as "ha ha tonka" which supposedly means "laughing waters," alluding to the springs below the castle. Unfortunately, he was killed in an auto accident in 1906 and the castle was completed by his sons Robert Jr., LeRoy, and Kenneth in the late 1920s. It was used as a hotel until it was destroyed by fire in 1942.
