See You in Spring 2025! 

Thanks for another great season! We reopen for visitors in May 2025.

Preserve the elegance of Black Point Estate! Your donation helps maintain this historic gem on Geneva Lake, ensuring its stories and beauty endure for future generations. Support our mission with a gift today!

See You in Spring 2025! 

Thanks for another great season! We reopen for visitors in May 2025.

Preserve the elegance of Black Point Estate! Your donation helps maintain this historic gem on Geneva Lake, ensuring its stories and beauty endure for future generations. Support our mission with a gift today!

Black Point Estate & Gardens building at Grand Geneva surrounded by trees

Take a Cruise to the Victorian Summer Retreat of a Chicago Beer Baron

Black Point Estate was built for Chicago Beer Baron Conrad Seipp in 1888 as a retreat, and in that spirit the home remains a place to relax, refresh, and explore. Just like the Victorian VIPs who established the estate, you’ll arrive in style and enjoy stunning Geneva Lake views on your cruise to this magnificent mansion, considered one of the finest examples of period architecture and furniture in the Midwest, and one of the oldest homes in Lake Geneva. 

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Black Point Estate and Gardens

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Step into Gilded Age elegance at the 1888 Summer home of Chicago beer baron, Conrad Seipp. Guests enjoy a narrated boat ride to the property via the Lake Geneva Cruise Line, a guided tour of the mansion, & time to relax and sip Seipp beer on the veranda.

We often get asked if Black Point is haunted.

We present Exhibit A for you to draw your own conclusions.
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4 days ago
We often get asked if Black Point is haunted.

We present Exhibit A for you to draw your own conclusions.

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Really, Is it?

Not with those shoes!

Spooooky!!