At the turn of the last century prominent Chicago families gravitated to Lake Geneva.
In 1888 beer baron Conrad Seipps built his family retreat, an expansive Victorian on the lake's south shore. Now Seipps great-grandson, William O. Petersen, has passed the property on to the State of Wisconsin. Last weekend the doors of the family home, called Black Point, opened to the public for the first time. Lake Effect's Susan Bence visited.
http://blackpointestate.wisconsinhistory.org/
