Gaze at Gilded Age mansions, stroll lakeshore paths, and more in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.

Known as the birthplace of modern astrophysics, the 121-year-old Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wis., will close in October, the University of Chicago has announced. “Unfortunately, operating ...

There are few places in Wisconsin that can claim as many discoveries as the Yerkes Observatory near Lake Geneva. The Observatory is more than a century old and houses the world’s largest refracting ...

“YERKES BREAKS INTO SOCIETY—Street-Car Boss Uses Telescope as a Key to the Temple Door—AND IT FITS PERFECTLY,” the Chicago Evening Journal exclaimed when Charles Yerkes financed UChicago’s Yerkes ...

AND INSPIRATION FOR THEIR YOUNGEST VISITORS. NEAR THE SHORES OF LAKE GENEVA IS A HISTORIC OBSERVATORY. HERE, GROUNDBREAKING RESEARCH WAS DONE BY RENOWNED ASTRONOMER. THE LIST INCLUDES NANCY GRACE ...

Stargazers can take note. Soon, you may not be able to use the historic Yerkes Observatory on Geneva Lake in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. The observatory, built in the 1890s, has in recent decades been ...

On a map, Geneva Lake looks like any other of the many large lakes in the Midwest. But the minute you get to the lakeshore and look around, it’s clear that it’s different from the usual ...