Jean Miner O'Connell
1912 -1991


Jean Miner O'Connell, our Mother, did not want money to disappear from her estate or her family torn apart to cover it up. She did a lot for Fairfax County. She was a charter member of the Springfield Acres Garden Club and a nationally recognized landscape designer who did the landscape designs, without compensation, for:

  • The Franconia Olivet Episcopal Church
  • The Springfield Richard Byrd Library
  • The Commonwealth Hospital in Fairfax
  • The Louise Archer Elementry School
  • Grandview Farmhouse and mini-pavilion, a National Trust for Hisoric Preservation property at Woodlawn
  • A memorial garden in the National Arboretum
  • The Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute
  • The Woodbridge Methodist Church
  • The 18th century Magruder House of the Prince George Historical Society
  • The Wolf Trap Elementry School
  • The Pope-Leighey House by Frank Lloyd Wright
  • The Fair Oaks Hospital
  • The Clifton Episcopal Church
  • The Oakton Elementry School
  • The 4-H Club Headquarters near Front Royal
  • The railroad of the abandon W & O Railroad in Vienna
  • The Springfield Junior Chamber of Commerce - commercial area plantings.
  • The Knoll Garden, Goodwin House Bailey's Crossroads, in Fall Church