🏨 Origins & Founding Charles “Sir Charles” Gibson, a wealthy St. Louis attorney and self‑styled knight, bought land at Breezy Point and built a summer home called Northome in the 1870s. In 1879–80, he constructed the Hotel  St. Louis, Deephaven’s first grand resort. The 150–200 room, three‑story wooden hotel featured verandas on every floor, indoor plumbing, electricity, and even an electric bell system to summon staff. 🌄 Golden Years in the 1880s Positioned on Carson’s and St. Louis Bays of Lake Minnetonka, the hotel catered to wealthy Southerners seeking relief from the summer heat.

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The 1905 Craftsman home on the shores of Lake Minnetonka seems like it was made for Barbara Burgum, who purchased it in 1999. While she’s spent years preserving and rehabilitating the stately house, the grounds themselves have offered another fertile opportunity: an outlet for Burgum’s passion for gardening and the natural world. Burgum, a retired landscape architect, overhauled the 2-acre property in 2012. She invited two of her landscape architecture classmates, Frank Fitzgerald and Fred Rozumalski, to help her draw up detailed plans. “We had a brain trust,” Burgum says. “I gave everyone topographic maps, and everyone went off in a corner and sketched.” Although the gardens have drifted quite a bit from those original plans (Burgum says she’s a “live and let live” gardener.), the blueprints laid the foundation for the driveway, hardscaping, rain gardens and other features. Continue