Background
Howard K. Jones was born in 1873 at Erie, Pennsylvania, United States.
Howard K. Jones was born in 1873 at Erie, Pennsylvania, United States.
At an early age he went to Boston to study architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
After receiving his diploma, the young man entered the office of Alden & Harlow in Pittsburgh, and starting as draftsman, won promotion until he became the chief designer of the firm. Later after Mr. Alden's death in 1905, Mr. Jones was taken into the firm as junior partner.
During his connection with the office he was particularly identified with the design of the following buildings: Second National Bank; South Hills High School; the R. B. Mellon residence on Beachwood Blvd.; Branch Carnegie Library at Homewood; and in other locations, the Telephone Exchange and Presbyterian Church at Erie, Pa., and Masonic Temple at Williamsburg, Pa.