John R. Wheeler Jr. House

John R. Wheeler Jr. House
Location 407 S. 3rd St.
Dunlap, Iowa
Coordinates 41°51′04″N 95°36′11.5″W / 41.85111°N 95.603194°W / 41.85111; -95.603194Coordinates: 41°51′04″N 95°36′11.5″W / 41.85111°N 95.603194°W / 41.85111; -95.603194
Area less than one acre
Built 1897
Architectural style Colonial Revival
NRHP reference # 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

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ James E. Jacobsen. "John R. Wheeler Jr. House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-10-16. with photos


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