George Howell Jones
{{Short description|American architect (1887–1950)}}
{{Notability|date=September 2023}}
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| office1 = Architect of Portland Public Schools
| term_start1 = 1920
| term_end1 = 1934
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| predecessor1 = Floyd Naramore
| successor1 = Position abolished
| birth_name = George Howell Jones
| birth_date = 1887
| birth_place = Portland, Oregon, U.S.
| death_date = January 9, 1950
| death_place = Portland, Oregon, U.S.
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| education = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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George Howell Jones (1887–1950) was an American architect. 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 Portland, Oregon. His father, Thomas J. Jones, was also a Portland architect, and designed some of the early school buildings in Portland. Jones went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he graduated with a degree in architecture in 1913.{{cite book|last1=Ritz|first1=Richard|title=Architects of Oregon|date=2002|publisher=Lair Hill Pub.|location=Portland, OR|isbn=9780972620024}} His thesis was "a design for a building for the supreme court of the United States."{{cite book|title=Bulletin of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology|date=1911|publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology|page=1478|url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=aDBHAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.RA2-PA452|accessdate=26 March 2016}}
Once he had graduated, he worked for the firm York and Sawyer,{{cite book|last1=Bevan|first1=Lynne|last2=Pell|first2=Danat|title=Catalogue of Delta Epsilon|publisher=The Fraternity|date=1917|page=[https://archive.org/details/cataloguedeltau04fratgoog/page/n247 243]|url=https://archive.org/details/cataloguedeltau04fratgoog|quote=george howell jones architect.|accessdate=26 March 2016}} and was a lieutenant in the U. S. Army Combat Engineers. 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 Floyd Naramore. Throughout his and Naramore's tenures, they designed over twenty new schools.
Jones was a member of the American Institute of Architects 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
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