George Noble Jones

In 1839 he hired English architect Richard Upjohn to build a house on 253 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island.

[1] This house, one of the earliest summer "cottages" in Newport, was in 1863 renamed Kingscote by new owners.

His ancestor, Noble Jones, established Wormsloe Plantation near Savannah, Georgia.

Jones was one of the first members of the elite gentlemen's club, the Newport Reading Room.

When the Civil War broke out, he permanently left Newport and the North, returning to El Destino.