John R. Wheeler Jr. House
John R. Wheeler Jr. House | |
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Location | 407 S. 3rd St. Dunlap, Iowa |
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Coordinates | 41°51′04″N 95°36′11.5″W / 41.85111°N 95.603194°WCoordinates: 41°51′04″N 95°36′11.5″W / 41.85111°N 95.603194°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1897 |
Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
NRHP reference No. | 86003171[1] |
Added to NRHP | November 4, 1986 |
The John R. Wheeler Jr. House, also known as Immaculate Conception Convent, is a historic building located in Dunlap, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1897 by J.R. Wheeler Sr. for his son and his new wife. Wheeler Sr. was a Civil War veteran, state legislator, local lumber merchant. The house is said to have served as an advertisement for the range of woods that Wheeler marketed.[2] When Wheeler Jr. left the community in 1910, he sold the house to neighboring St. Patrick's Catholic Church for use as a convent. As many as 45 rural students were housed here to makeup for the low church population in town. The parish sold the house in 1973, and it became a private home again.
The two-story, frame, front gabled, Colonial Revival house is symmetrical in plan, with the exception of the wrap-around porch. It features Georgian corner pilasters, pedimented dormers, wooden belt courses, an Adamesque-style cornice with dentils and decorative modillions, and an elliptical fanlight. The porch features columns in the Doric order and a plain dentilled cornice. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ James E. Jacobsen. "John R. Wheeler Jr. House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-10-16. with photos
- Houses completed in 1897
- Colonial Revival architecture in Iowa
- Buildings and structures in Harrison County, Iowa
- National Register of Historic Places in Harrison County, Iowa
- Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa
- South Iowa Registered Historic Place stubs
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