Locust Hills Development (former Sweatt estate) (Wayzata, Minnesota)

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This neighborhood was developed from one of the last large estates on Lake Minnetonka. The 70-acre property was originally a farm owned by H. M. Carpenter, who owned a paper mill in the Twin Cities. It was then bought by a group of Wayzata business owners who used a long-demolished building as a speakeasy during Prohibition. After Prohibition's repeal in 1933, it was operated as a country club-type establishment, adding a swimming pool and tennis courts. In the late 1930s, it was purchased by the Sweatt family, the co-founders of Honeywell Inc. under W. R. Sweatt. The corporate left Minnesota after a merger in 1999.

It was subdivided into a 47-home development just in time for the economic crash of the late-2000s.

SOURCES:
locusthillswayzata.com/history.asp
listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/CARPENTER/2004-06/108...
www.weeklynews.com/main.asp?SectionID=10&SubSectionID=1...