In 1916 at the advice of Edwin Culver that the grounds was in need of some landscaping attention;
Jens Jensen a landscape architect was hired. His first suggestion was to get rid of the canal system - and then get rid of all
the un-natural foliage in the area and replace it with shrubbery and trees native to the area. Thus by 1917 the drainage ditch
system faded into history.
1929 - November Jens Jensen was still doing work for the
Academy - he had a design for an outdoor theater