Just Listed: Lake Minnetonka house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright protege

At Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's studio near Spring Green, Wis., an eager band of draftsmen once gathered to work alongside the much-revered architect. One of those apprentices, known then as "the pencil in Wright's hand," was a young architect named John Howe. Howe, an original member of the Taliesin Fellowship Associated Architects, later built a cottage across a wide valley from Taliesin. As the story goes, one day in the late 1950s, a young couple from the Twin Cities saw a picture of that cottage and wrote to Howe, asking him to design a house for them and their two young boys on a wooded hillside overlooking Lake Minnetonka in Orono. Howe delivered with a sprawling, 3,620-square-foot Prairie-style house, known as Wintertree, that's now on the market for $2.295 million. Click here to read a story that was published in the Sunday paper, including excerpts from a letter Howe wrote to his clients.