The 425-acre (172 ha) estate is on Lake Michigan in Door County, Wisconsin, just south of Baileys Harbor.

Almost 1,400 students and faculty members from 65 groups attended 30 separate programs during the 2004–05 academic year.

Donald and Winifred Boynton of Highland Park, Illinois, bequeathed the estate to Lawrence University in 1963.

The new lodge opened in 1996, much larger and more modern, but with elements retaining the Norwegian heritage of the estate.

The University signed an agreement with the Door County Land Trust in 2016 to protect 305 of the site's 441 acres from future development.