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The survivors were his namesake John S. Pillsbury Jr., [13] [14] his son George and two daughters Mrs. Thomas M. Crosby, Orono, Minnesota, and Mrs. Stanley R. Resor, Washington, D.C. Known as Pillsbury Mansion and as Southways Estate on Lake Minnetonka [15] [16] (or Southways for short), the mansion became famous for the beauty New Jersey ...
Southways Estate: 1918: Georgian and Tudor Revival: Harrie T. Lindeberg: Orono, Lake Minnetonka: Built for John S. Pillsbury; demolished in 2018 [36] Fair Oaks 1884 Châteauesque: E Townsend Mix: Minneapolis: Built for William Washburn. Was demolished in 1924 Van Dusen Mansion: 1893 Châteauesque, Richardson Romanesque: Edgard E Joralemon ...
Minnetonka Beach: 1928 water tower, linchpin of the municipal water supply system that allowed Minnetonka Beach to grow from an upper-class resort to a community of year-round residents, and a well-preserved example of a once-common early-20th-century design. [135] 122: Minnetonka Town Hall: Minnetonka Town Hall: March 15, 2021 : 13231 ...
The owner, Edward Chenery Gale, was the son of Minneapolis pioneer real estate broker Samuel Gale. His wife, Sara Belle Pillsbury, was a daughter of Governor John S. Pillsbury. The house, now owned by the American Association of University Women, is faced in Bedford limestone. Many modern features were part of the design: a central vacuum ...
Pillsbury was also involved in the banking, railroad, and clothing businesses. Pillsbury served on the Orono School Board and was a Republican. Pillsbury served in the Minnesota Senate from 1971 to 1982. His grandfather Charles Alfred Pillsbury also served in the Minnesota Legislature. He died at his home on Lake Minnetonka in Orono, Minnesota ...
Danny and Sophie Strauss met at a summer camp in Ely along the edge of the Boundary Waters, and fell in love with Finnish sauna culture. The 1930s log cabin sauna Minnesota's growing sauna culture ...
The first people who inhabited the Lake Minnetonka area were Indigenous peoples who migrated to the region at the end of the last ice age circa 8000 BCE.Later peoples who inhabited the area between 3500 BCE and 1500 CE are commonly referred to collectively as the "Mound Builders" because they constructed large land features serving spiritual, ceremonial, burial, and elite residential functions.
The Pillsbury State Forest is a state forest located in Cass County, Minnesota. Created in 1900, it was the first designated Minnesota state forests . The forest borders Gull Lake and the city of Lake Shore to the north.