After his father's death in 1889, Benjamin Franklin Wheeler Sr. moved with his mother Clara and younger brother Lee to Oviedo, where at 11 years old Frank became the sole supporter of his family. At 15, he took a job as freight agent and telegrapher for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. In 1898 he purchased a citrus grove destroyed by the freeze of 1894-1895, and by 1915 he had planted 30 acres in citrus yielding 5,000 boxes of fruit. His success in citrus led him to invest in the Nelson Brothers Packing Company, which under his direction expanded into growing citrus and celery and manufacturing fertilizer, employing nearly 100 full-time workers and 200 more during harvest season in the 1930s. As a civic leader, he helped incorporate the Town of Oviedo in 1925, and in 1946 he established the Citizens Bank of Oviedo, serving as president until his death in 1954. Frank Wheeler Sr. and his wife George lived in a colonial revival home designed by Herbert Fisk and built by the Howard C. Kiehl firm. Frank Sr. purchased the land in 1901 with a wood frame house and a ten-acre orange grove, construction on a new home began in 1927, and in 1928 the family moved in with their three children, Clara Lee, Frank Jr., and Louise. After Frank Sr. died in 1954, George lived there until 1980, followed by their daughter Clara and her husband, John Evans, until Clara's death in 2010. In 1980, architect James Gamble Rodgers II renovated parts of the house, adding a loggia connecting the back entry to the garage, and on September 20, 2001, the Wheeler-Evans home was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.