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The most recent activity of the Chapter was 

 the work of joining hands with Cleveland's 

 Chapter of Architects in the development of 

 two models showing correct and incorrect so- 

 lutions of a home building problem on a lot 

 100 feet by 200 feet. The object of these mod- 

 els is to demonstrate to the public the great 

 value of proper co-operation among architects, 

 landscape architects and owners in the de- 

 velopment of a home. 



The Chapter gave encouragement and sup- 

 port to the establishment of a summer travel 

 course, both abroad and in the United States, 

 which opens this year at Ohio State Universi- 

 ty- 



At Columbus and other cities, members of 

 the Chapter have taken an active part in co- 

 operative architectural and landscape architec- 

 tural as well as City Planning exhibitions. 



IV. 



MINNESOTA CHAPTER 



On February 35, 1913, at the call of Phelps 

 Wyman, Fellow, the Minnesota members of 

 the A. S. L. A. met to form a Provisional 

 Chapter. A provisional constitution was 

 adopted and filed with our Executive Com- 

 mittee. At this meeting, A. U. Morell was 

 Chairman and C. H. Ramsdell, Secretary pro 

 tem. 



Formal application to form our Chapter was 

 made August 24, 1913, when a revised con- 

 stitution for the Chapter was filed with the 

 Executive Committee. In January 1915, an in- 

 formal vote of the Fellows of our Society was 

 favorable and on December 6, 1915, our Chap- 

 ter was duly voted into existence and our 

 Constitution of February 5, 1914, was accept- 

 ed by the Executive Committee. 



During this formative period, Phelps Wy- 

 man was President, C. H. Ramsdell, Secretary 

 of the Provisional Chapter. Policies of name, 

 field of activities, spheres of influence, were 

 actively considered and adopted. 



Our Statement of Practice, the work of this 

 period, has since been revised, but is still ac- 

 cepted as the standard of our Chapter, re- 

 ceiving favorable comment by the officers of 

 the parent society. 



The first ofificers elected held over until De- 

 cember 31, 1919, when A. R. Nichols was 

 elected President and George L. Nason, Sec- 

 retary-Treasurer. 



During the winter of 1913, several informal 

 meetings were held with discussion of plans 



and reports of members. Our guests included 

 students from the offices, landscape contrac- 

 tors, other landscape architects and park su- 

 perintendents. 



During the years of 1913-1914 and 1915, our 

 activities were largely routine, but competitive 

 exhibitions were entered into, after discussion 

 of policy. The Chapter was active in the 

 Minnesota Farmstead Competition, fathered by 

 the State Art Society. The results were pub- 

 lished together with the Model Farm Homes 

 Competition by the State Art Society. 



In 1916. the question of a full course of 

 Landscape Architecture was taken up with the 

 Regents of the University of Minnesota. Our 

 Chapter promoted the idea that a full course 

 was not desirable but that an elementary 

 course for students, gardeners, and superm- 

 tendents was advisable and this idea prevailed. 

 Later, one of our Chapter members was asked 

 to carry on each winter for a three months' 

 period, a lecture course to Senior Architects 

 of the College of Architecture and Engineer- 

 ing. This is still the accepted method of study 

 at our State University. 



During the War period, 1917-1918, our Chap- 

 ter activities were much abridged by absence 

 of our members on various lines of war work. 

 The Chapter had a 100% attendance at the 

 rather historic Washington meeting of the 

 Society in December, 1918. 



In 1919 and 1920, the State Registration Law 

 for Architects, Engineers and Land Survey- 

 ors was discussed at length and advice asked 

 of our officers and other chapters. This has 

 been followed to date, but it is likely our 

 members will soon register under this law due 

 to state wide conditions and our own needs 

 and protection. The Chapter was active at 

 this time in promoting our state laws for city 

 planning which have since been passed. 



In July 1921, an illustrated talk by Mr. Car- 

 hart, Recreational Director of the U. S. For- 

 estry Service was much enjoyed by our mem- 

 bers and invited architects present. 



Late in 1921, our Chapter put in the hands 

 of our Senators, Twin City representatives in 

 Congress, as well as all Minneapolis and Saint 

 Paul papers, the report on the proposed Se- 

 quoia-Roosevelt National Park and Kings 

 River Reserve. This report by the Society's 

 President, Mr. Olmsted, and Mr. Fitzgerald is 

 worthy of all possible publicity as a national 

 policy for our Society. 



This resume of Chapter activities, does not 

 mention the work of members on the several 



