Deephaven Minnesota

Deephaven is a small city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 3,642 as of the 2010 Census. The community is on Lake Minnetonka, centered on the Cottagewood General Store, which has been serving the area since 1895. The city has an area of 2.43 square miles (6.29 km2), of which 2.37 sq miles ( 6.14 km2) is land and 0.06sq miles (0.16 km2") is water. Deephaven is 14 miles (23 km) west-southwest of downtown Minneapolis, and is located on the shores of Lake MinNETonka. The town was settled in 1876 by Saint Louis attorney Charles Gibson. In 1879 he advocated for the construction of the 150-room Hotel Saint Louis, the area's first grand hotel. In its place, Walter Donald Douglas of the Quaker Oats fortune and his wife Mahala built a 27-room estate named "Walden" in 1912. Douglas died in the Titanic disaster in 1912, but Mahala and her French maid Berthe Leroy survived.