George Howell Jones (1887–1950) was an American

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. He is most notable for being appointed the Architect of Portland Public Schools and designing most of their buildings in the 1920s and 1930s.

Life

George Jones was born on May 24, 1887, in

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. His father, Thomas J. Jones, was also a Portland architect, and designed some of the early school buildings in Portland. Jones went to the

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, where he graduated with a degree in architecture in 1913. His thesis was "a design for a building for the supreme court of the United States." Once he had graduated, he worked for the firm

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, and was a lieutenant in the U. S. Army

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. He also worked for the firm Crow, Lewis, and Wick. Between 1920 and 1934, Jones was hired as the Architect for Portland School District No. 1, replacing

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. Throughout his and Naramore's tenures, they designed over twenty new schools. Jones was a member of the

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from 1938 to 1942. By 1940, he had moved on to working in a partnership with Harold Dickson Marsh, as a firm known as Jones & Marsh. George Howell Jones died from a heart attack in Portland, Oregon on January 9, 1950.

Gallery

File:Da vinci arts middle school, portland oregon.jpg, Da Vinci Arts Middle School (formerly Girl's Polytechnic High School), Portland File:Arleta K-8 School, Portland, Oregon.jpg, Arleta K-8 School, Portland File:Grout Elementary School in Portland, Oregon (2022).jpg, Daniel A. Grout Elementary School, Portland File:Northeast Portland, Oregon (2019) - 076.jpg, Beaumont Middle School, Portland

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, George Howell 1887 births 1950 deaths Architects from Portland, Oregon