Wheeler-Kohn House

Landmark Context

Wheeler-Kohn House is located at 2016-20 S Calumet Av in the city's landmark record. The designation record holds onto a construction date of 1870 and credits Otis L. Wheelock. It was designated on February 5, 1998. Wheeler-Kohn House keeps domestic design, residential development, and block-by-block neighborhood change grounded in a real building even when the public record is brief.

Wheeler-Kohn House becomes materially clearer through lot width, setbacks, porches, bays, and rooflines, the rhythm between neighboring houses, and alterations that show changing domestic use. Read carefully, those details begin to explain how one domestic building can still clarify the growth of an entire residential block.

Research Starting Points

Wheeler-Kohn House usually reveals its next layer in real-estate atlases and fire insurance maps, permit files and census or directory material, and historic photographs and neighborhood histories. That source trail is often the best way to move from designation summary to a fuller building history.

Wheeler-Kohn House remains most useful when later evidence keeps returning to the site itself.