[1] For her landscape work as well as her efforts to preserve and restore historical sites, she was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame and a foundation was established in her name that awards scholarships in her field and supports an annual lecture series.
Silverstein began her professional career in 1933 when she was hired by the Denver-based landscape architecture firm of McCrary, Culley and Carhart to work on planting designs for Colorado University.
Silverstein also received commissions to design plantings for other kinds of sites, including housing projects, large estates, churches, schools, hospitals, government buildings, and businesses.
[3][4] During World War II, Silverstein served in New York in the Women's Reserve of the U.S. Coast Guard as an officer working on matters to do with port liaison and property surveys.
[3] After the war, Silverstein briefly held a job as a landscape architect for the New York firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill before returning to Denver in 1947 and reopening her own practice.
She was a key mover in a drive to rehabilitate the grounds of Colorado Governor's Mansion, and she also consulted on the Molly Brown House Museum garden and the 9th Street Historic Park.
[1] In 1983, the ASLA's Colorado Chapter established the Jane Silverstein Ries Award to honor members showing exceptional awareness of the importance of land stewardship in the Rocky Mountains.