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==Commemoration==
[[File:JonesHSHoustonTX.JPG|thumb|[[Jones Futures Academy|Jesse H. Jones High School]].]] [[File:HPL nima (2).JPG|thumb|Jesse Jones Building of the [[Houston Public Library]].]]
Thanks in large part to the largesse of the Houston Endowment, the name of Jesse H. Jones is memorialized throughout Houston. The home of the Houston Symphony is Jesse H. [[Jones Hall]] in the [[Houston Theater District]].<ref>[http://www.houstontx.gov/joneshall/general.htm ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100125112644/http://www.houstontx.gov/joneshall/general.htm |date=January 25, 2010 }}</ref> [[Jesse H. Jones High School|Jones High School]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hs.houstonisd.org/JonesHS/ |title=Jones (Jesse H.) High School / Homepage |publisher=Hs.houstonisd.org |date= |accessdate=2013-06-19}}</ref> and [[Texas Southern University]] Jesse H. Jones School of Business are historically black institutions. The Jones family had a strong influence on [[Rice University]] as well, with the eponymous [[Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management]] founded in large part by a gift from Houston Endowment Inc., and [[Jones College (Rice University)|Jones College]] named for Mary Gibbs Jones. The Jesse H. Jones Student Life Center, a recreation facility at the [[University of Houston–Downtown]] was also named for Jones.
In the [[Texas Medical Center]] (Houston), there are the Jesse H. Jones Rotary House Hotel, a hotel for [[MD Anderson]] Cancer patients and family members,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mdanderson.org/patient-and-cancer-information/guide-to-md-anderson/services-and-amenities/rotary-house-international/index.html |title=Rotary House International | MD Anderson Cancer Center |publisher=Mdanderson.org |date=2013-02-20 |accessdate=2013-06-19}}</ref> the Jones library building for the Houston Academy of Medicine/Texas Medical Center;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.library.tmc.edu/ |title=Texas Medical Center Library | Home Page |publisher=Library.tmc.edu |date=2013-01-07 |accessdate=2013-06-19}}</ref> and the Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Pavilion (1977) connecting [[Memorial Hermann]] Hospital to the [[University of Texas Medical School]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/sbh06 |title=HERMANN HOSPITAL | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) |publisher=Tshaonline.org |date= |accessdate=2013-06-19}}</ref> The original site of Texas Woman's University Houston campus, across the street from the HAM/TMC library, included Mary Gibbs Jones hall; TWU moved to a new location in 2006 and the original site became part of [[Houston Methodist Hospital]].
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