In 1932, during the height of the Great Depression, four emigrants from Sweden - Nils Anderson, Helge Carlson, Walfred Olson, and Manfred Peterson - began what is known today  as Ellis Stone Construction Company, Inc. 

Working out of a quarry they leased in Ellis, Wisconsin, they began quarrying stone for churches, schools, homes, and other buildings.  In the late 1940s, Olson left the company to start his own business.    In 1955, Peterson retired and sold his interest to Anderson and Carlson. 

By the early 1950s, the firm emerged as a general building contractor.  The Company continued to grow; in the 1950s and 1960s, it became one of the most highly regarded general contractors in north central Wisconsin. 

Today, over 70 years later, Ellis has continued a path of planned growth under the leadership of Jim Anderson and Erik Carlson, 2nd and 3rd generation to the original founders.  

Ellis is guided by a commitment to provide customers with the finest building possible; a building not only suitable today, but well into the future.   This commitment is as solid as the rock quarried by the Company founders.

Original founders Nils Anderson (right)
and Helge Carlson (center) working with
a co-worker on a job site in Antigo,
Wisconsin the summer of 1934.

Quarrying stone in the Ellis quarry.

Ellis Stone Construction Company’s
home office in Stevens Point.