Henrietta Ord Jones co-founded the Chautauqua Bird and Tree Club with Louise Igoe Miller in 1913. (The name was changed to the Bird, Tree and Garden Club in 1952).

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Known as “The Little General,” she organized, facilitated, and inspired the other founding members of the club.

 

In 1915, she donated the land for the Arboretum.

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Her home, which she called The Green Loggia, was built in 1908. The Bird and Tree Club’s first meetings in 1913 were held in the upstairs, open-air loggia. The home still stands at 20 Whittier. Privately owned, it was on the 2018 BTG House & Garden Tour.

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The Henrietta Ord Jones Society is a biannual giving society (like the Bestor Society) to provide individual sponsorship for the House & Garden Tour. 

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