Gervase Wheeler
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Gervase Wheeler was a British architect who designed homes in the United States
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. Wheeler moved to the U.S. in the 1846 or 1847 and stayed until the 1860s, when he returned to London. Wheeler's father, who was also named Gervase, worked as a manufacturer of gold, silver and gilt jewelry in Holborn
Holborn
Holborn is an area of Central London. Holborn is also the name of the area's principal east-west street, running as High Holborn from St Giles's High Street to Gray's Inn Road and then on to Holborn Viaduct...

, then just outside of London
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