page_title: Wheeler Bank
section_title: Jerome B. Wheeler
hierarchical_section_title: Wheeler Bank / Jerome B. Wheeler
caption_attribution_description: English: Jerome B. Wheeler, former Macy's executive who later moved to Aspen, Colorado, and helped develop the town during its silver-mining boom era in the 1880s.
context_page_description: Wheeler Bank is a historic building located on Manitou Avenue in Manitou Springs, Colorado built by Jerome B. Wheeler. It is on the National Register of Historic Places. Over the course of its history, the building has been a financial institution, auditorium and retail business.
context_section_description: Jerome B. Wheeler operated a bank in one half of the first floor. The other first floor business was a dry goods store operated by N.O. Johnson & Son. Offices were located on the second floor and an opera hall, called Wheeler Hall or Opera Hall, was on the third floor. The bank closed during the Panic of 1893. It later reopened and was a bank until 1922. The financial institution became the Bank of Manitou in a new building on Manitou Avenue.
  Wheeler made several donations to the town of Manitou:
  $50,000 towards Manitou Avenue construction
  Provided equipment for the volunteer fire company
  Donated the Wheeler Clock at Manitou and Canon Avenues
  Provided $10,000 for repairs following a "devastating" flood of 1913
caption: Jerome B. Wheeler
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