Delano celebrates its anniversary with a year-long celebration. In Delano, some families can trace their roots back generations—to when the Crow...
History
Hairdressing History Lesson
While men’s barbershops predate Minnesota’s 1858 statehood, women’s salons were nonexistent in the lake area before 1900. Those of wealth and...
James J. Hill Days Blends History With Local Pride
The celebration honoring James J. Hill brings three days of music, markets and community. From September 11–13, the Wayzata West Metro Chamber will...
Meet Minnetonka’s Renaissance Woman
Martha Van de Vere Larkin (1869–1967) was a Minnetonka woman of note. Martha and her husband, John, farmed the land that the Dayton company...
Reimagining Home With Boyer Building Corporation
Thoughtful design honors a family’s legacy of lake life living. Some homes are more than structures; they are chapters in a family’s story. For Jill...
Harvest Days and Hearty Dinners
Imagine the clang of a dinner bell echoing across the Minnetonka countryside—a signal that the threshing crew was coming in hungry from the fields....
The Legacy Behind Matter’s Farm to Table
Fertile land in Delano is operated by a seventh generation of dedicated farmers. Legacies are established through a myriad of ways, and for one...
History of Giving
While Christmas gift-giving fuels today’s consumer economy, its roots go back to the 1870s and 1880s, following the growing traditions of Christmas...
Early Thanksgiving Celebrations
Today, you might think that the flocks of turkeys roaming your neighborhood or the frozen beauties in the local market harken back to the first Lake...
Minnesota Bound Celebrates 30 Years on Air
The outdoor adventure show shares a profound love of nature with viewers. Ron Schara’s professional background started as a journalist with the...
A History Lesson About the Deephaven School
In December 1936, Deephaven received a federal Works Progress Administration grant to help build a new school. After two years of construction and...
Dive Into the History of Deephaven’s Saint Louis Bay
The Lake Minnetonka Historical Society is marking the city’s milestone anniversary with a cruise. Celebrate Deephaven’s 125th anniversary with the...
All Aboard the (Miniature) Wayzata Garden Railroad
Miniature train sets wind their ways through the imaginations of visitors of all ages. Nestled on the Wayzata Depot Museum grounds, a charming...
We’re Celebrating 20 Years in the Community
Lake Minnetonka Magazine celebrates its 20th anniversary this month. Enjoy a look back at some of our iconic covers from the last two decades....
101 Years and Counting at Orono Orchards
Orono golf course’s history is on par. Your golf course has some history when cut hayfields served as fairways and borrowed tomato cans, spade into...
Lakeside Home Has a Porch for Every Season
A 1905 Lake Minnetonka home blends the indoors and outdoors on its century-old porches. When you speak with Barbara Burgum about her 1905 Craftsman...
Minnetonka Beach’s Ma Kloss
For decades, Minnetonka Beach was home to Annie Kloss, known by many as “Ma,” the town’s legendary entrepreneur and proprietor of Kloss Tavern. A...
Celebrate Christmas, Highcroft Style
From 1895 to 1953, in Wayzata’s Ferndale neighborhood, stood a magnificent, red brick mansion—Highcroft—on a 110-acre estate. Built by the Frank H....
Deephaven Abode Offers Unique Spaces With a Historical Twist
When an address includes Walden, the home practically has a responsibility to embrace the property’s natural surroundings, providing owners a place...
The Charles H. Burwell House Hosts a Spooktacular Good Time
A not-so-scary good time at an annual Halloween celebration. Who doesn’t like to get invited over to someone’s house, especially if it’s for a...
