Howland Jones

Boston-born architect Howland Jones submitted his work Physical Education Building, Tufts College to the 1932 Olympic Arts Competition in Los Angeles. He had produced this together with his partners Robert Andrews, Maurice Biscoe and John Whitmore with whom he had worked since 1924. The sports hall of Tufts College (now Tufts University), a private university near Boston, was opened in 1932 and named after John Albert Cousens, the president of the college. Andrews, Jones, Biscoe & Whitmore had worked out a plan for the complete campus. Most buildings, like the gymnasium, were characterized by a red brick façade with a white portico. Due to the economic situation, however, only a few of the planned buildings were realized. However, the draft was quoted again and again for extensions by later architects.

Jones was a member of the American Institute for Architects in New York, after studying at MIT. In 1895 he went abroad to Italy, Greece and France to study measurement and detailed building drawings. He was known for his high standard of practice. In 1925 he designed a memorial for the first organized football game in the US in Boston. Jones spent his later years in Marblehead, Massachusetts.