Harry Bergen Wheelock (1861-1/8/1934) Chicago Illinois (F.A.I.A.)

Born at Galesburg, Illinois, a son of George and Sylvia Bergen, and after the death of both parents, he was adopted by Architect Otis L. Wheelock of Chicago. He attended the city schools, and when he was twenty, entered the University to study Civil Engineering. Before receiving his degree, he left college to assist his foster father, then elderly, in his architectural office, and following the latter's death, took over his practice.

Through the 1890s and 1890s, he acquired a large and successful practice in Chicago. He was architect of the Methodist Book Building, Presbyterian House for the Aged, the Patten Printing Company Building, and the Moody Bible Institute, the latter his most important building, on which he remained in charge for many years after the turn of the century. In addition to work in Chicago, he designed the James Patton Memorial and the adjoining Nurses' Home in Evanston, Illinois.

In 1885 Wheelock was one of the founders of the Chicago Architectural Club, also prominently identified with the organization of the Illinois Society of Architects, originally established as the Chicago Architects' Business Association. An active and efficient worker on many important architectural and public commissions of which he was a member, Wheelock was also largely responsible for the bill Licensing Architects and the Registration Act by the State Legislature, serving for many years on the First Board of Architectural Examiners.