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Wedding Day
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Bride Catherine Bakieff Petersen and groom Peter Seipp Goltra, left, pose with their wedding party under the crystal chandelier in the music room at Black Point Estate. Catherine and Peter are distant cousins, each being a great-great-great-grandchild of Chicago brewer Conrad Seipp. Seipp built the main house at Black Point Estate in 1888.
September 10, 1966
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Fifth Generation
1949
Zika Bakieff Petersen, center, poses with her two children, Edward and Catherine, on the lawn at Black Point in late summer. The children were members of the fifth generation of the Conrad Seipp fa...
Catherine Seipp
1915
Catherine Orb Seipp (1846-1920), the widow of Conrad Seipp, poses beneath a chestnut tree in full bloom at Black Point Estate.
At the Farmhouse
April 27, 1968
Members of the Petersen family gathered for a meal at the farmhouse, also referred to as the Baker house, at Black Point Estate. The room is open to the rafters and the walls are wood paneled. A ty...
Wedding Day
August 27, 1912
View from lawn towards a group of women and children standing on the porch at Black Point. The porch, stairs and trees are strewn with streamers, part of the celebration of the marriage of Alma Sei...
The Schmidt Children with their Grandmothers
1900
Mrs. Conrad (Catherine Orb) Seipp, left, and Mrs. Ernst (Theresa Weikhardt) Schmidt join their grandchildren, from left, Alma Catherine, Clara Theresa (Tessa), and Ernst Conrad Schmidt for tea in f...
Pier at Black Point
August 27, 1912
View across water towards a group of well-dressed adults and children gathered on the pier at Black Point Estate on the wedding day of Alma Seipp and William Sherman Hay. Dr. Otto Schmidt, husband ...
