The Wheeler Mansion
The only surviving historic mansion on S. Calumet Avenue, the Wheeler Mansion was built in 1870 for Calvin T. Wheeler, a banker and a member of the Chicago Board of Trade. It was designed in the Second Empire style, with influences in the tall third-story mansard roof. Over the years, the mansion has been home to a publishing company, warehouse for the Murphy Butter and Egg Company and others. The current owner acquired the property at 2020 S. Calumet Ave. in 1997 for $10,000, then spent 18 months renovating the vacant and crumbling building. Wheeler Mansion reopened in 1999 as a Bead & Breakfast.
Photograph at Chicago Architecture Center Open House Chicago 2021.
The Wheeler Mansion
The only surviving historic mansion on S. Calumet Avenue, the Wheeler Mansion was built in 1870 for Calvin T. Wheeler, a banker and a member of the Chicago Board of Trade. It was designed in the Second Empire style, with influences in the tall third-story mansard roof. Over the years, the mansion has been home to a publishing company, warehouse for the Murphy Butter and Egg Company and others. The current owner acquired the property at 2020 S. Calumet Ave. in 1997 for $10,000, then spent 18 months renovating the vacant and crumbling building. Wheeler Mansion reopened in 1999 as a Bead & Breakfast.
Photograph at Chicago Architecture Center Open House Chicago 2021.