Custom Home Builder Minnesota · Lake Minnetonka Corridor
Wayzata & Lake Minnetonka Luxury Home Builder
Stonewood is a fourth-generation, Wayzata-based custom home builder with the deepest concentration of finished projects on Lake Minnetonka of any builder in the state, giving Lake Minnetonka buyers site-specific experience with lakefront setbacks, soil conditions, and shoreline permitting.
Home Base
Wayzata: Where Stonewood’s Minnesota Story Begins
Stonewood is headquartered in Wayzata, on Lake Minnetonka’s northeast shore, and has built custom homes throughout the lake’s fourteen-community corridor for four generations. That concentration is not incidental. It is the reason Stonewood knows this lake’s setbacks, soil conditions, and permitting requirements more thoroughly than any other Minnesota builder.
The Lake Minnetonka Corridor
Each community on Lake Minnetonka has its own building regulations, lot character, and buyer expectations shaped by that community’s specific relationship to the water. Stonewood has built in all of them.
Wayzata
Home to Stonewood’s headquarters and the historic Lake Street waterfront.
Orono
Low-density, heavily wooded, among the lake’s most significant estate lots.
Deephaven
Established shoreline neighborhoods with a long luxury building tradition.
Minnetonka
A broader west metro community with strong demand for teardown-rebuild.
Shorewood
Includes Christmas Lake frontage alongside Lake Minnetonka shoreline.
Excelsior
A walkable lake town with tightly held, high-demand waterfront parcels.
Minnetrista
Larger acreage lots on the lake’s western bays and inlets.
Mound
Extensive Lake Minnetonka shoreline with a range of lot sizes and configurations.
Minnetonka Beach
One of the lake’s smallest and most exclusive shoreline communities.
Greenwood
Compact, established, and among the lake’s most tightly held addresses.
Woodland
An unusually high density of lakefront estate properties for its size.
Tonka Bay
Peninsula geography that puts many lots on multiple points of shoreline.
Spring Park
Marina culture and shoreline living at the lake’s northern end.
Long Lake
Just inland from the corridor, a natural extension of Stonewood’s service area.
Built for the Lake: Setbacks, Soil, and Shoreline Permitting
Lake Minnetonka’s regulatory complexity separates builders who belong here from those who are learning at their clients’ expense. Stonewood’s four generations on this specific lake mean these requirements are second nature, not a learning curve.
Every Lake Minnetonka project starts with a site-specific evaluation of shoreline setbacks, soil conditions, and Minnesota DNR shoreland classification for the lake’s particular zone. Watershed district requirements, impervious surface limits, and dock engineering are all managed as a routine part of the Stonewood process, not a special case handled once and forgotten. On Ferndale Road in Wayzata, on Fox Street in Orono, and on Stubbs Bay, Stonewood’s project history on Lake Minnetonka gives clients confidence that their specific bay’s requirements are already understood before the first site visit.
In Their Words
What Lake Minnetonka Clients Say
Nothing compares with our experience at Stonewood.
Russell K.
The software they developed keeps the project on budget and on time.
Linda C.
A premier custom home builder in the Twin Cities, attention to detail is unmatched.
Megan W.
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