LU32.46

Postcard, Photographic

1914

Main Street Waseca Showing Hotel Waverly. Waseca Main Street. Waseca State Street. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" black and white postcard photograph of the east side of mainstreet Waseca from 2nd Avenue S.E.; prominent is the Hotel Waverly (left) with front porch and awnings; message addressed to Miss Augusta Sievert, from her mother.

Waseca business: Waverly Hotel.The donor is the great-grandson of William Everett, co-founder with Aughenbaugh, of the EACO Mill in Waseca County. The Everett home, built by William's son Edward Everett, overlooking the east end of Clear Lake, was a showplace in its time, a classic Victorian-style home, it was demolished in 1958 it was an architectural and historical loss to Waseca County. This collection of photographs from Willard Everett is donated under our "Loaned to Us" program, where the donor allows WCHS to scan the images, but donor keeps possession of the original photographs. This photo is from one of the Everett family albums, one entirely devoted to documenting the childhood of William Rinehart Everett, son of E. A. and Nettie Everett, and the donor's father. William R. Everett was born in Waseca, Minn., on May 13, 1891.