Owens-Rogers Museum Name Change

The Ginger House Museum name has been changed to the Owens-Rogers Museum to better reflect the subjects.

Lela Owens-Rogers was a Vaudeville scriptwriter, newspaper reporter, and later a Hollywood screenwriter and instructor at RKO studios, a producer, and manager for her daughter, Ginger Rogers. She gave birth to Ginger Rogers in this home.

Lela Rogers played Ginger Rogers' mother in movie The Major and the minor.

Ginger was a Vaudeville and Broadway sensation and Hollywood film star and the highest paid actress in Hollywood in the early 1940's.

Visitors will find information about both of these amazing women and their family history in the museum located at 100 W Moore Street, Independence, MO 64050.