He is most notable for being appointed the Architect of Portland Public Schools and designing most of their buildings in the 1920s and 1930s.
Jones went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he graduated with a degree in architecture in 1913.
[1] His thesis was "a design for a building for the supreme court of the United States.
"[2] Once he had graduated, he worked for the firm York and Sawyer,[3] and was a lieutenant in the U. S. Army Combat Engineers.
George Howell Jones died from a heart attack in Portland, Oregon on January 9, 1950.