Lake Geneva
The Baker House
Emily Baker's 1885 Queen Anne summer house on Lake Geneva, later a sanitarium annex and the St. Moritz hotel, restored in 2010.
- Built
- 1885Built 1885 as Redwood Cottage, a summer house for Emily Baker; a sanitarium annex, then a hotel after 1925; restored 2010.
- Style
- Queen Anne
- Type
- Inn
- Credentials
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The story
Emily Carswell Baker, widow of Racine mayor and state senator Robert Hall Baker, built the 30-room Queen Anne mansion in 1885 as a summer home and named it Redwood Cottage. After her death in 1894 it became an annex of the neighboring Lakeside Sanitarium, a refuge for wealthy Chicagoans taking a rest cure, and the inn says it served as a speakeasy during Prohibition. After 1925 it became a lakeside hotel and restaurant, best known as the St. Moritz, and it was restored in 2010 as The Baker House.
Good to know
- Address: 327 Wrigley Drive, Lake Geneva, WI 53147
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Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.