Background
George R. Jones was born in 1887 at Portland, Oregon, United States.
George R. Jones was born in 1887 at Portland, Oregon, United States.
He attended the Oregon State College, and later completed a four year course in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mr. Jones began his career as Chief Architect of Portland’s School District No. 1 and plans and specifications for numerous buildings in the district were prepared under his direction. After joining Harold D. Marsh in partnership he continued to specialize in school work until 1945. Among noted examples of the firm's work were the Junior High and Vert Memorial school group at Pendleton, Ore., Junior and Senior High at Klamath Falls; and the Senior High at Oregon City. In the period between 1945 and 1950 Jones & Marsh designed schools, public buildings and industrial work, the most important of which were additions to the Roosevelt High School, Central Fire Station, Chapel, Administration Building and other units at Concordia Academy, and enlargement of the Police Bureau Building, all in Portland; Buildings at the Eastern Oregon Tuberculosis Hospital at The Dalles; Industrial Building, Engineering Wing and Coliseum at the Oregon State College, Corvallis; and school buildings at Oregon City and Redland, Ore.