The Wheeler Mansion in Chicago

One of the last of the South Side mansions that survived the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, The Wheeler Mansion in Chicago, Illinois, is a Queen Anne, Second Empire-style home built in 1870; the two-story window bay at the front of the building and the intricate front-porch canopy were added in the mid-1880s. I booked a room in this bed and breakfast for my husband, Erik, when he traveled to Chicago.

^{Photo © Erik Arneson}