Harry Wild Jones (June 9, 1859 – September 25, 1935) was an American architect based in Minneapolis who designed throughout the country and the world.

Jones' secondary education was focused on preparation to enter Brown University in Providence, an institution with strong family ties.

In addition to being his father's alma mater, Brown was founded with assistance from Jones' great-great grandfather, Reverend Hezekiah Smith (1737–1805).

Brown University, a college deeply rooted in religion, maintained a strong emphasis toward preparing its all male students for a life in the ministry.

"[1] After a year working for Richardson, Jones, with his bride Bertha Juliet Tucker, moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in September 1883.

Among the four hundred+plus structures Jones designed, from whimsical park buildings to octagonal log houses, and humble church chapels, he is best remembered in Minnesota for the second Lake Harriet Pavilion (1891–1903)—"a Chinese timber-framed pagoda form in a shingle-clad exterior",[3] the monumental Butler Brothers Warehouse (1908)—"a sternly poetic mass of wine-colored brick that conveys the commercial might of Minneapolis at the dawn of the twentieth century",[4] the exquisite Lakewood Cemetery Chapel (1910)—"an elaborate example of Byzantine Mosaic art and one of the finest of its type to be found anywhere in the United States"(NRHP 1983), the Northfield Bank (1910)—whose entire roof structure is designed like spokes around its domed top causing its architect to proclaim at its completion "another building just like it cannot be found in this country",[5] and the Washburn Park Water Tower (1932)—"linking function and artistic splendor with 16-foot medieval knights and eight-foot eagles.

He earned his Asian commissions after a 1907 world cruise, embarked upon to recover following a near fatal car accident that resulted in a skull fracture.

In addition to Jones' private practice, in 1890, at one of the busiest periods in his career, he furthered the Midwest's burgeoning profession of structural design by reorganizing the architecture curriculum at the University of Minnesota.

During that same time, Jones juggled his practice and academic instruction by beginning a twelve-year stint as an elected commissioner for the Minneapolis Park Board.

With the onset of the Great Depression in 1929, Jones, though past retirement age, continued to seek commissions to provide for his family's income.

The service was held in the First Baptist Church of Boston, Massachusetts, (a Henry Hobson Richardson design) and officiated by Reverend Howard Malcom Jones, the groom's father.