321 Bushaway Rd
Wayzata, MN 55391, USA

1939: Rogers/Eide House – 321 Bushaway Road

Excerpt from the History of Bushway Road and Its Neighborhood (1858-2009) by Irene Stemmer, of the Wayzata Heritage Preservation Board (HPB) as a means of preserving the history of the Bushaway Road and its neighborhood.

1939: Rogers/Eide House – 321 Bushaway Road

The property for this house was purchased from Dolly Field by Wendell Rogers in 1938. The Colonial Revival style house was built by the Rogers the following year. Wendell and Marguerite had three children, John, Jean and Barbara. Mr. Rogers was an attorney and was one of the five petitioners who requested annexation of Bushaway and Holdridge neighborhoods into the City of Wayzata in 1956.

Rogers sold the house to Glen and Mary Eide in 1959. The Eide’s had three children Kristen, Mitchell and Mark. Glen and Mary raised their children and made it their home the balance of their lives. They were active members of the Wayzata community, their church, Wayzata Historical Society and twenty-five year advocates for saving the beauty of Bushaway Road. In 1980-82, they led the neighborhood’s opposition to create an elongated bridge over the railroad tracks and denying fill in Lake Minnetonka along the causeway. Mary died in 2002 and Glenn in 2006. A bronze plaque with the history of the depot was placed on Wayzata’s Lake Street in their memory by the Wayzata Historical Society. The home is now owned by their three children who are carrying on the work of their parents working to save Bushaway Road as a scenic historic neighborhood road.

321 Bushaway Road, Wayzata, MN, USA