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Black Point is an estate on the south shore of Geneva Lake in Wisconsin, United States, built in 1888 as a summer home by Conrad Seipp, a beer tycoon from Chicago.〔(Lake Geneva website re mansions )〕 It has also been known as Conrad and Catherine Seipp Summer House and as Die Loreley〔 The Queen Anne style mansion features a nautical-themed, four-story, "crow's nest" observation tower, which can be seen from many points on the lake; the property also features post-civil war-era furniture. It was designed by Adolph Cudell. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.〔 The state of Wisconsin owns the property and leases it to the Black Point Historic Preserve, a nonprofit organization which manages the property for public tours, which began in June 2007.〔(Lake Geneva tour website )〕 The estate and its grounds, including 620 feet of shoreline, are protected from future development by a conservation easement co-held by the Geneva Lake Conservancy, a local not-for-profit conservation organization,〔(Geneva Lake Conservancy website )〕 and the Preserve.〔(Geneva Lake Conservancy news release, September 26, 2005 )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Black Point (Linn, Wisconsin)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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