Situated along one of Minnesota’s premier lake chains near Nisswa, a lakeside rustic home on Gull Lake boasting a private wooded retreat, has listed for $2.2 million.

Jennifer Bichanich fondly remembers every design, curve and bit her late husband incorporated into their Lake Minnetonka house in Orono that became known as the "Lighthouse Keeper's Cottage." The home ...

It would be a simple building surrounded by pines, maybe 400 square feet, with bookshelves, a woodstove and a sleeping loft. A trail would lead to the lake and you’d pad along it barefoot, inhaling ...