TO THE PALACE! Egg Palace Antiques has built its kingdom over nearly 20 years, home to a seemingly endless supply of goods. Now, it is up for sale as owners Dick and Donna Berweger aim to enter true retirement.

A collector favorite off the beaten path, Egg Palace has housed aisles of antiques and vintage goods for nearly 20 years in the Chippewa Valley. Owners Dick and Donna Berweger have spent the better part of their 50-year marriage either on the hunt for or selling their collected wares, and as of this spring, are looking to start a new venture: retirement.

Egg Palace Antiques (4263 N. Prairie View Road, Chippewa Falls), a 5,000-square-foot space, is largely home to carnival glass, vaseline glass (shiny glass that truly lights up under black light thanks to the uranium in it), and beer memorabilia, with more goods added to the floor every single day.

“We started buying with the intent of (opening an antique store) when we retired,” Donna said in a recent interview. “We’d go every weekend after working during the week, we’d just take off and go all over (hunting for unique goods) since we didn’t have children. We still have storage units full to go through.”

After landing in the Chippewa Valley in 1982, the Berweger’s opened up their antiquities shop in 2005. Over the years, perhaps the most memorable part of owning the Egg Palace has been the flurry of folks they’ve met who wandered into the shop out of curiosity or on their own antiquities hunt.

“You meet a lot of new people," Donna said. “We’ve had people from all over the world visit: Spain, Australia.”

This spring, Dick turned 80, and the duo decided it was time to truly enter retirement. Working with Elite Realty, the Egg Palace’s kingdom – five acres with about 12,000 square feet of building space in total, beyond the main retail space – is priced at $849,900.

The Egg Palace shop, a handicap accessible space with cases and shelves tucked against every wall to display decades’ worth of wares, could find life with another vintage lover, or not, Donna said. Until then, the shop is open – with Donna and Dick at the helm, the only staff of the store – on Friday through Monday from 10am-5pm, or by appointment.

View the Egg Palace Antiques website for additional information • Learn more about the property listing, listed through Elite Realty’s Mary F. Rufledt