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Choosing the Right Membership For You
All levels receive the benefits of all preceding levels.
Seedling Membership ($25/year) – receive all Member Benefits listed in the box above, along with one membership card.
Flower Membership ($50/year) – receive all Member Benefits, a second membership card for someone else, and a coupon for a free Garfield Park Conservatory keychain from our Gift Shop.
Fern Membership ($100/year) – receive all Member Benefits, a second membership card for someone else, a coupon for a free Garfield Park Conservatory tote bag from our Gift Shop, and your name listed in our Annual Report
Palm Membership ($250/year) – receive the same benefits as a Fern membership, a total of four membership cards, and an invitation to our annual Donor Reception.
Director’s Club Membership ($500/year) – receive the same benefits as a Palm membership, plus a free guided tour of the Conservatory (by appointment).
Please see the “Jensen Club Membership” section at the top of this page if you are interested in learning about joining at a higher level.
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JENSEN CLUB Membership
Jensen designed and built the Garfield Park Conservatory in 1908 with the urban dweller in mind – as a place where people would come to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city, a place to rejuvenate the mind and soothe the soul.
As a Jensen Club member, you will be invited to VIP preview events and special exhibitions, the annual breakfast with the Directors in May, and a special “Behind the Scenes” tour at the Conservatory.
For more information email Katherine Schultz or call (773) 638-1766, ext. 13.
Photos: (top) Jens Jensen (bottom) Fern Room C.1957 Julia S. Bachrach: Chicago Park District Historian
JENS JENSEN "Friend of the Native Landscape", by Julia Sniderman Bachrach Chicago Park District Historian
Chicago underwent rapid development during the late nineteenth century, many people felt proud of the changes the city was experiencing. Tall buildings, the elevated railway system, improved roads, and a new drainage system all signified that Chicago was becoming one of the nation’s premier cities.
Within this context, however, a Danish immigrant, Jens Jensen (1860-1951), saw the quickly disappearing native landscape as a resource to be revered, idealized, and preserved. Jensen is now considered dean of the Prairie style of landscape architecture, leader of the Midwestern conservation movement, and is remembered as a significant Chicago social reformer.
Today, the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Chicago Park District have formed the Jens Jensen Legacy Project to inspire current generations about this influential designer and conservationist.
From Laborer to Superintendent
Born into a prosperous family in Slesvig, Denmark, Jens Jensen emigrated to the United States in 1884 with his fiancée, Anne Marie Hansen. After brief periods in Florida and Iowa, the young couple settled in Chicago where Jensen found employment as a laborer for the West Park Commission.
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hen
you become a member of the Garfield Park Conservatory
Alliance, you’ll have access to some of the most beautiful
landscape architecture in the world and a collection of the
most exotic plants ever found under glass … and that’s just
during normal visiting hours!
membership
in the Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance supports
one of Chicago's great botanical resources. So step
into our world and step into another place and time,
where it's always warm and lush, where you will be
surrounded by some of the most historic and dramatic
architecture of our time.
Free guest passes to special exhibits, like
GIANTS: African Dinosaurs at the Garfield Park
Conservatory.
onors
of $1,000 or more are eligible to become members of the
Jensen Club, a group of individuals committed to the
preservation of landscape architect Jens Jensen’s original
vision of the Conservatory. 
