Our story
Over 300 years of fighting for land ownership
BaseLots was not built in a boardroom. It was built from a family legacy that traces back to the founding of America and a belief that land ownership should be accessible to everyone.
1600s
Andrew Everest
Arrived in America in the 1600s, believing land ownership was the foundation of a free life.
1770s
Benjamin Everest
Member of the Green Mountain Boys, fought for the land rights of ordinary people.
Late 1800s
David Oscar Everest
Invented the spring-tooth harrow, opening millions of acres of Midwestern land to farming.
1883-1955
D.C. Everest
Built Marathon Corporation into an international paper empire and commissioned the family genealogy.
Mid 1900s
Kenneth Jordan Kimball
Built mid-century Coral Gables with his signature Buildo block through Kimball, Inc.
2026
Noah Clark Everest
Building BaseLots, the platform that makes land ownership accessible to everyone. BLOCK tokens named in tribute to the family’s building legacy.
1600s
Andrew Everest
Arrived in America in the 1600s, believing land ownership was the foundation of a free life.
1770s
Benjamin Everest
Member of the Green Mountain Boys, fought for the land rights of ordinary people.
Late 1800s
David Oscar Everest
Invented the spring-tooth harrow, opening millions of acres of Midwestern land to farming.
1883-1955
D.C. Everest
Built Marathon Corporation into an international paper empire and commissioned the family genealogy.
Mid 1900s
Kenneth Jordan Kimball
Built mid-century Coral Gables with his signature Buildo block through Kimball, Inc.
2026
Noah Clark Everest
Building BaseLots, the platform that makes land ownership accessible to everyone. BLOCK tokens named in tribute to the family’s building legacy.
Noah Clark Everest
Founder, BaseLots
The Everest family has been fighting for land rights for over 300 years. BaseLots is how I carry that forward. Not with muskets, but with smart contracts and a platform that gives everyone the same access to property ownership that my ancestors believed was a fundamental right.
Noah Clark Everest, Founder
From the founding of America to the future of ownership
The Everest family story begins with land.
In the 1600s, Andrew Everest arrived in the New World with one belief: that ownership of land was the foundation of a free life. He settled, built, and passed that belief down through generations.
His descendant Benjamin Everest took that belief further. As a member of the Green Mountain Boys, he fought alongside Ethan Allen against forces that threatened the land rights of ordinary people. The fight was never just political. It was personal. Land meant freedom. Ownership meant security. The right to hold property was worth fighting for.
A family of builders
Before D.C. Everest built his paper empire, his father David Oscar Everest was already changing America from the ground up.
In the late 1800s, American farmers faced a stubborn problem. Rocky Midwestern soil broke traditional farming tools faster than they could be replaced. David Oscar Everest solved it. Through the David O. Everest Company in Michigan, he invented the spring-tooth harrow, a tool with a mechanism that allowed it to bounce over rocks without breaking. It sounds simple. The impact was not. His invention helped clear the American Midwest for farming, opening millions of acres of land to productive use at a critical moment in American expansion.
His son David Clark Everest, known as D.C., took the family’s industrial spirit to an entirely different scale. On a vacant site along the Wisconsin River, D.C. built the Marathon Corporation from nothing. It became an international leader in food packaging and specialty papers. He was twice elected president of the American Pulp and Paper Association and helped found the Institute of Paper Chemistry. The Paper King of Wisconsin did not just build a company. He built an institution.
D.C. Everest also understood that material success means nothing without memory. In 1955, the same year he passed, he commissioned “Descendants of Andrew Everest,” a 488-page genealogy documenting the full family lineage. He wanted his grandchildren to know the grit of their ancestors. Only 250 copies were printed. Noah holds Copy 4.
A living document
Descendants of Andrew Everest, 1955
488 pages. 250 copies printed. Noah holds Copy 4. BaseLots plans to mint a digital edition onto the Ethereum blockchain, making an over 300-year family record of land ownership permanent on a public ledger forever.
The family legacy continued through D.C.’s daughter Helen, who married Kenneth Jordan Kimball. Kenneth brought the Everest industrial spirit to Florida, building much of mid-century Coral Gables through Kimball, Inc. at 247 Greco Avenue. His signature product, the Buildo slump block, defined the architectural character of South Florida for generations.
Kimball, Inc. — Coral Gables, Florida
The photos of Kimball, Inc. at 247 Greco Avenue in Coral Gables document Kenneth’s work firsthand. His business brought modern building materials to Florida at a time when the state was experiencing its greatest construction boom. The Buildo slump block became his signature, a mid-century material that still defines the look of Coral Gables neighborhoods today.
Kimball, Inc. at 247 Greco Avenue, Coral Gables
When Noah named BaseLots’s ownership units BLOCK tokens, the name carried more history than most people realized. From Kenneth Kimball’s Buildo blocks in Coral Gables to digital ownership blocks on the Arbitrum blockchain, the family has literally been in the business of building for over a century.
The problem that drove everything
Noah Clark Everest grew up watching what happens when generational wealth in real estate slips away. Families who built something over decades can lose it in a single generation. Not through carelessness, but through systems designed to keep real estate inaccessible to everyone except the wealthy.
Banks that demand perfect credit. Down payments that take decades to save. Mortgages that extract hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest over 30 years. Fractional platforms that issue tokens on mortgaged properties with no regulatory oversight, leaving everyday investors exposed.
The system was not built for ordinary people. Noah decided to build one that was.
“Andrew Everest believed land ownership was the foundation of a free life.”
“Benjamin Everest fought for the right to hold that land.”
“David Oscar Everest invented tools that opened that land to millions of farmers.”
“D.C. Everest built an empire on that land and made sure the story would not be forgotten.”
“Kenneth Jordan Kimball laid the physical blocks that built communities across South Florida.”
“Noah Everest is building the platform that makes that right accessible to everyone.”
“The family has been fighting for land rights for over 300 years. BaseLots is the next chapter.”