The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-06-03

Architects, builders and property
owners are beginning to realize in Min
neapolis that the drawing Of architec-
tural plans for house does not COM
plete the work preliminary to erection
of a residence. When the actual build
ing is finished contractors and owners
have sighed with relief, as the debris
has been cleaned off the lot and the
lawn sodded. Their impression has
lately the idea has been forced on the
minds of the triumvirate that the work
is really only begun:
The setting for the residence must
!, be prepared. In the first place an ar
chitect is supposed to adapt the plan to
the site. Any old house will not fit
any old site any more, as it used to.
The house must be designed for the site
and then the site must be prepared to
give the best effect to the entire city.
This new ally of building is landscape
architecture. Expanding the scope OF
the vocation the landscape architect
prepares settings for communities and
then for cities. He has to do with park
systems, triangles and all the little in
,tricacies that have to do with the es-
thetics Of municipality rather than
the utilities. -
Along this line Of development A. P.
EWyman, landscape architect of Chicago
with branch offices in Minneapolis, has
given It h j our ! an interview on
. the subject Of "Landscape. Architect
Iure and Real Estate' He shows where
realty values are affected by improve
Iments to the land.
.. Two Objects in View.
"Created or natural beauty in any
piece of land has money value,'' said
hMr. Wyman, "but how far-reaching is
Its effect is not so largely recognized.
Landscape architecture has two objects
i'm view: One to make property more
useful and comfortable, and the other
TO make it more attractive. 1t piece
lof land is naturally, from it's situation,
more useful and attractive than an
Iother, the principle is the same, for
Landscape architecture has to make up
for deficiencies, or to remake what has
before been spoilt. - -
E Economists recognize that human
wants are unlimited. AS it becomes
ipossible to satisfy more than bare ne
Fcessity, the esthetic is demanded with
increasing power with each period Of
time, the luxuries of today becoming
THE necessities of tomorrow. Until now
people have been contented to build
satisfied to build only substantially.
and reason for pride in his house. An
interesting house is only part Of the
problem. It must have setting in cor
respondence, something which shall also
satisfy the taste. But the matter is
farther reaching. A well-kept and in
teresting place gives value to 10,
cality in proportion to it's beauty and
the wealth it represents. j.
Lowry HILLS Advantage.
T. "Lowry Hill has great natural beau
ty. 1t was started right by having
upon it in the beginning a large, beau
t1ful estate. I know a similar hill in
Boston where much was to be made of
1t, but tenements got the first start and
the project had to be given up. A tone
lis given to a neighborhood at once by
the character Of one place and it's own.
ier which goes long way in determin
ing the desirability of settling in that
locality. An attractive house and
grounds having been started in a nat
nrally beautiful place, there comes q
can afford to pay high prices.
:. cit is interesting to foresee what
would have happened to those parts Of
Lowry Hill which directly overlook the
new park, if instead of a park some
thing humber had found a place there
stas for example, brick yard. Values
lwould have deprecated. Now that this
IDS to be a park, a permanent institu
'tion, one is warranted in depending
upon always having a beautiful out
slook. A section Of city may be com
pletely transformed from a poor dis