He became involved with several banks and other financial institutions, Wausau Insurance Cos. Soon, the elder Everest's business interests and investments expanded. "So they went into food packaging ‒ milk cartons, Waxtex, frozen food cartons.
"He said there was one thing that everyone needed, and that's food, so they went into food packaging," D.C.
While others thought newsprint would be the main product of the Rothschild paper mill, Everest saw a different, more lucrative path, according to a story about Everest that ran in the Wausau Daily Herald in October 2000, when Everest was inducted into the Paper Industry International Hall of Fame. Everest was an astute businessman with a canny ability to see the needs of the future. "I wasn't particularly interested in the architecture."ĭavid Clark Everest in the mid-1920s obviously was.Įverest, born in Pine Grove, Michigan, in 1883, moved to the Wausau area as a young man after being recruited to manage Marathon Paper Mills Co., a Rothchild pulp and paper production mill. "I was less interested in a house than what my friends were doing," Anne Flaherty said. She remembers the parties after basketball games and other sporting events. There was a rec room in the basement and we made a lot of use of that." She remembers being happy because she and siblings "all ended up with own separate rooms," she said. The historic and architectural aspects of the home were lost on the teenaged Anne Flaherty, she said. Lawrence Riordan was the president of Crestline Windows, a window manufacturer located in the center of town. The Flahertys have owned the estate since 1990, when they bought the property from Anne Flaherty's father, Lawrence Riordan.Īnne Flaherty was a sophomore in high school when her parents, Lawrence and Virginia Riordan, bought the home. "And you'd think that with such a spacious house, there would be room to get away from them for a little while. "We raised four kids in the house," Anne Flaherty said, laughing. Although there are a few large and open rooms, most the home is split into wings that have smaller, snuggier rooms. The design has a lot to do with why the home feels almost cozy.
Kevin Flaherty, who owns the house with his wife, Anne Flaherty, "but it doesn't feel big." The mansion's warm-weather design and look in snowy central Wisconsin is one of the many interesting juxtapositions the home and its owners have provided through the years. Its neighborhood, the Highland Park Historic District, is part of the State Register of Historic Places, and the mansion is just a couple blocks away from another home on the National Register of Historic Places, one designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It's an anchor of a historic neighborhood renowned and valued for its diverse, high-quality architecture. A Mediterranean-style villa with arched doorways, tiled roof and a courtyard that features a fountain and magnolia trees, it would seem to be a better fit in a warmer climate, maybe the southern European Riviera.
And plunk the estate ‒ the 7,062-square-feet, six-bedroom, six-bath home sits on an over-sized lot of 1.1 acres ‒ a few hours away in an urban environment such as Milwaukee or Madison, you could easily be paying $1.5 to $2 million or more. But the Everest mansion at 1206 Highland Park Boulevard is anything but typical. That's an eye-popping price for a typical piece of Wausau real estate, where the median price for homes sold is about $170,000, according to the website. Everest Area School District is named, David Clark Everest, you can buy the estate for $799,000. Built by power-broking businessman, paper industry innovator and the man after whom the Weston-based D.C. Everest House has been a crown jewel among central Wisconsin showpiece homes, listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. Since it was designed in the 1920s, the D.C. WAUSAU - The estate takes up half a city block in a designated historic neighborhood, with a three-story red brick home designed in an eye-catching English-Spanish baroque style by a critically-acclaimed Milwaukee architect. Everest mansion, designed by Alexander Eschweiler, for sale
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