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The total cost was only $55,000. In 1980, the building was rehabilitated by local architect Daniel Curran. As the "most intact historic building associated with transportation in the Geneva Lake area," the Riviera was listed on the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service on April 3, 1986.
Lake Shore Drive near Fontana, 1932 postcard. Lake Geneva's main newspaper is the Lake Geneva Regional News, a Lee Enterprises-owned weekly newspaper that has served the Lake Geneva area since 1872. It is published every Thursday. WLKG (96.1 FM) is a hot adult contemporary-formatted radio station licensed to Lake Geneva.
A letter written by Christopher Columbus on February 15, 1493, is the first known document announcing the completion of his first voyage across the Atlantic, which set out in 1492 and reached the Americas. The letter was ostensibly written by Columbus himself, aboard the caravel Niña, on the return leg of his voyage. [2]
Lake Geneva Depot: July 31, 1978 (#78000144) February 18, 1987: Broad St. Lake Geneva: Depot of the C&NW Railroad, designed by Charles Sumner Frost in Queen Anne style and built in 1891. Demolished in August 1986. [96] 3: Loramoor: January 16, 1980 (#80000201) May 30, 1986: S of Lake Geneva at 774 S. Lake Shore Dr. Lake Geneva vicinity
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. [2] It has also been known as Conrad and Catherine Seipp Summer House and as Die Loreley [1]
' The Holy Mary of the Immaculate Conception '), or La Santa María (Spanish: [la ˈsãn̪.t̪a maˈɾi.a]), originally La Gallega (Spanish: [la ɡaˈʝe.ɣ̞a]), was the largest of the three small ships used by Christopher Columbus in his first expedition across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, with the backing of the Spanish monarchs.
George Nethercut was an Irish immigrant shoemaker who came to Lake Geneva in 1855 with his wife Mary. [9] [2] The 1872 William Davis house at 1103 Geneva St is another 2-story Italianate house with hip roof and wide bracketed eaves. This one is frame, with a gable on the south side, decorated with cornice returns and an arched hood molding. [10 ...
It was the premier commercial block in Lake Geneva in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [ 4 ] [ 2 ] The Wachter and Ford Block, also called the Emporium Block, at 736-738 Main St. is a 2-story brick block constructed in 1881-82 in Victorian Italianate style.