Otis Leonard Wheelock (1816 - 1893) was an architect in upstate New York and Chicago. He and his wife had two adopted children, a son
Harry B. Wheelock who was an architect and a daughter.
George H. Harlow studied under him.
He was a partner of
W. W. Boyington in the firm of Boyington & Wheelock. He also partnered with
William Wilson Clay. George Beaumont and
Minard Lefever Beers are architects who worked at his firms.
Works
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Paddock Arcade
The Paddock Arcade is a 19th-century shopping mall located in Watertown, New York. Built in 1850, it is the second oldest covered shopping mall and the oldest continuously running enclosed shopping mall in the United States. Since it has seen un ...
(1850) at Washington St. between Arsenal and Store Sts. in Watertown, New York (NRHP listed by Wheelock,Otis L.)
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Oscar Taylor House
The Oscar Taylor House is a historic house in the city of Freeport, Illinois. The house was built in 1857 and served as a "station" on the Underground Railroad during the American Civil War. It was added to the National Register of Historic Place ...
(1857), NRHP listed
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Union Park Congregational Church and Carpenter Chapel
Union Park Congregational Church and Carpenter Chapel (also known as First Baptist Congregational Church) is a historic church building at 60 N. Ashland Blvd. on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois. The chapel is named after Philo Carpenter ...
’s Revival chapel
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Burbank–Livingston–Griggs House
The Burbank–Livingston–Griggs House is the second-oldest house on Summit Avenue in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. It was designed in Italianate style by architect Otis L. Wheelock of Chicago and built from 1862 to 1863. The work w ...
(1862), NRHP listed
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Groesbeck House
The Groesbeck House is an Italianate style house located at 1304 West Washington Boulevard in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The house was built in 1869 by Otis L. Wheelock for Abraham Groesbeck. It was designated a Chicago Landmark
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(1869), 1304 W. Washington Boulevard, a Chicago Landmark
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Wheeler–Kohn House (1870), NRHP listed
*2550 S. Michigan (demolished)
[
*2808 S. Prairie (1886) with William Wilson Clay][
*2919 S. Prairie for ]Frank Granger Logan
The Logan Medal of the Arts was an arts prize initiated in 1907 and associated with the Art Institute of Chicago, the Frank G Logan family and the Society for Sanity in Art. From 1917 through 1940, 270 awards were given for contributions to Amer ...
(demolished)
*Michigan and Prairie Avenue mansions with[
*]Henry A. Chapin House
The Henry A. Chapin House, also known as Chapin Mansion, is a historic house in Niles, Michigan, Niles, Michigan. It was listed as a Michigan State Historic Preservation Office, Michigan State Historic Site in 1976, and listed on the National Re ...
(1882), 508 E. Main St. Niles, MI
Niles is a city in Berrien and Cass counties in the U.S. state of Michigan, near the Indiana border city of South Bend. In 2010, the population was 11,600 according to the 2010 census. It is the larger, by population, of the two principal cities ...
Wheelock & Clay NRHP listed
References
External links
Findagrave entryJeffcowiki entry
American architects
1893 deaths
1816 births
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