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Black Point is an estate on the south shore of Geneva Lake in Wisconsin, built in 1888 as a summer home by Conrad Seipp, a beer tycoon from Chicago.
A independent feature occurs as 13-bedroom Queen Anne style mansion with the nautical-themed 4-story "crow's nest" observation tower. Its collection of antebellum Chicago-style furniture has been known as the world's big. These are involved in the National Register of Historic Places. A wooded sixer-acre estate has 600 feet of shoreline.
a present creator, William Petersen, world health organization occurs as descendent of Seipp & however has a front yard on the property, has worked by having state officials since the 1990s to turn the home into the museum. State funding was eventually approved within August, 2005, & a Black Point Historic Preserve, a non-profit-making conservation organization, may handle the property and renovate it for public tours. Fallowing required structural repairs, the Preserve plans a visitant center quick for class action tours within spring 2007.
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