Join us 6 days a week for lunch, brunch, dinner, cocktails, and Saturday Victorian High Tea (closed Tuesdays). Experience the most entertaining destination in Lake Geneva where Gilded Age living mixes with modern day indulging, creating a fancy-free environment reminiscent of a 1920's house party. Luxurious hotel suites, lakefront dining, live entertainment and our nightly Sundowner Celebration wi
th vintage hats and classic cocktails is only part of the fun for guests who casually dine throughout the Mansion in decadently furnished parlors. Built in 1885 as a summer residence for Emily Baker, (Become a Friend of EMILY BAKER, for more inside details) the 17,000 sq. ft, 30 room Queen Anne Mansion was first named "Redwood Cottage." Over the last 125 years the home has had many lives: a SUMMER HOME for Emily and her 5 children; a SCHOOL DORMITORY for the Lake Geneva Seminary for Young Ladies; a "fashionable" SANITARIUM for wealthy Chicagoans recovering from light nervous disorders; a clandestine Speakeasy during Prohibition and by the 1930's it became a lakeside HOTEL & RESTAURANT, best known over the decades as the "St. In 2010 the "Redwood Cottage" has been lovingly restored and renamed the BAKER HOUSE in tribute to the homes' first family, Emily and Robert Baker.
