66.01.219

Print, Photographic

1898

E. A. Everett Residence Front Entrance to Library. Material: paper. Size: 4" x 5". Description: black and white photograph of the interior of the Everett house; this is the front hall doorway to the library; there is a fireplace in the corner of the room with andirons and mirror over the mantel, stenciled wallpaper, Oriental carpets and a leopard-skin rug, a carved chair, palms and plant stand, velvet drapes. See accession 41.11.2, and 40.04. Everett Residence, Everett House, Everett Home located at 206 9th Street N.E. on the corner of 9th Street N.E. and Lake Avenue now 3rd Avenue N.E.

The donor is the great-grandson of William Everett, co-founder with Aughenbaugh, of the E. A. Co 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. Everett Residence, Everett House, Everett Home. Lake Avenue became 3rd Avenue April 1928.