Location: 1812 S. Prairie
Occupants: George H. Wheeler, J. C. Wooley
Life Span: 1884-1968
Architect: Burnham & Root
- Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1885
Wheeler, George H. (Munger, Wheeler & Co.) 1 Metropolitan blk. house 1812 Prairie.
Chicago Telephone Directory, 1892
Wheeler George H. 1812 Prairie av. . . South-37
Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1904
Young Lawrence A lawyer 1014, 59 Clark h 1812 Prairie av.
Inter Ocean, January 2, 1887
Mr. G. Henry Wheeler has a charming house, No. 1812, arranged and furnished in exquisite taste. Mr. Wheeler is of the firm of Munger, Wheeler & Co., and a son of the venerable Hiram Wheeler, Esq.
Chicago Tribune, January 9, 1898
George Henry Wheeler, whose home is at 1812 Prairie avenue. recently lost his wife. The President of the Washington Park club and the Chicago City railway company is a familiar figure to frequenters of the South Side boulevards. He is fond of good horses and generally tools his dogcart southward in the early afternoon. His daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Young, live with him. Mt. Young is a Louisville man, and was an Assistant Corporation Counsel in Mayor Swift’s administration.
- 1812 S. Prairie Ave.
About 1955
Chicago Tribune, July 16, 1915
MRS. LAWRENCE YOUNG DIES AT MACKINAC ISLAND HOME.
Mrs. Mabel Wheeler Young, wife of lawyer and capitalist, of 1812 Prairie avenue, died yesterday at the Youngs’ summer residence. The Knoll, on Fort Mackinac Heights, Mich.
Two weeks ago Mrs. Young underwent a serious operation at’ St. Luke’s hospital. She was anxious to join her husband and her three children. Alice, Henry W., and. Lawrence Robinson Young, and Mackinac island, and against the advice of her physicians she left the hospital and took a boat on Saturday, accompanied only by a nurse. Complications, which quickly proved fatal, followed.
News of Mrs. Young’s death was telephoned by The Tribune to the Young residence in Prairie avenue and caused a shock to the servants. “She had a bad afternoon going up,” the caretaker said. “but we heard from her after she arrived, and she is all right. She’s not dead-O, no- or we would know it.” Mrs. Young was born in Chicago fortythree years ago.
She was a daughter of the late George Henry Wheeler, former president of the Chicago City railway. She was a granddaughter the late Hiram Wheeler. Her only brother, Henry Wheeler, a member of the faculty of Yale university, died last February, leaving Mrs. Young $500,000..
Chicago Tribune, October 13, 1968
Next door (to 1808) is a vacant lot at 1812 Prairie av. You do not have to be a house builder to know that no human shelter was ever constructed there altho several persons are listed as eligible voters from that address.
- 1812 S. Prairie Ave.
Robinson Fire Insurance Map
1886
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