MacNeil modeled many charming and unique designs for vases, teapots, inkstands, and other decorative and useful objects, as well as children's busts, including those of her two sons, and statuettes.

She was one of the "white rabbits" who worked for Lorado Taft at the World Columbian Exposition of 1893, along with other female artists including Helen F. Mears.

In 1895, she married Hermon Atkins MacNeil, a sculptor of American Indians and heroic monuments.

[6] In 1904, she was awarded a bronze medal for a fountain at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, held in St.

[1] A longtime resident of the College Point neighborhood in Queens, New York, MacNeil died in the borough's Jamaica Hospital.