The Wheeler-Kohn House is a Queen Anne and Second Empire Style house in the Near South Side

Near South Side, Chicago

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 neighborhood

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 of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The house was built in 1870 by Otis L. Wheelock for Calvin Wheeler.

It was designated a Chicago Landmark

Chicago Landmark

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 on February 5, 1998, and it was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 in 1999. The house currently serves as one of Chicago's few intimate bed and breakfast

Bed and breakfast

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hotels, operating as the Wheeler Mansion.