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{{short description|American architect}}
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|name                 = Alexander Delos "Boss" Jones
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|nationality          = American
|birth_date           = August 10, 1818
|birth_place          = probably [[Columbia County, New York]]
|death_date           = May 15, 1897
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|spouse               = Mary Liddle (January 20, 1848)
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|significant_projects = [[Greek Revival architecture|Greek Revival]] style farmhouses and [[Octagon house]]s
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'''Alexander Delos "Boss" Jones''' (1818&ndash;1897),<ref>Duanesburg Historical Society, "Alexander Delos Jones" in [https://books.google.com/books?id=sV0EAwAAQBAJ Duanesburg and Princetown], Arcadia Publishing, 2005</ref><ref>Martha Liddle Gifford [https://www.electricscotland.com/WEBCLANS/htol/genealogyofliddl00giff.pdf Genealogy of the Liddle family]</ref> also known as A.D. (Boss) Jones or Boss Jones, was an American master carpenter and architect who designed and built a number of notable [[Greek Revival architecture|Greek Revival]] style farmhouses in [[Schenectady County, New York]]. He also built two notable [[Octagon house]]s.  His work was based in [[Duanesburg, New York]]. Some of his buildings employed innovative [[stacked plank construction]]. Eight of his notable works were covered in a study of Boss Jones Thematic Resources and listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1984.
<ref name=mps>{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=64000549}}
|title=National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Submission: Boss Jones TR
|author=unnamed |date=October 1984 |publisher=[[National Park Service]]}}</ref><ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2009a}}</ref>
==Selected works==
*[[Avery Farmhouse]], c. 1850
*[[Becker Farmhouse]], c. 1850
*[[Alexander Liddle Farmhouse]], c. 1850
*[[Robert Liddle Farmhouse]], c. 1850
*[[Jenkins Octagon House]], c. 1855
*[[Ladd Farmhouse]], c. 1855
*[[Shute Octagon House]], c. 1855
*[[A.D. (Boss) Jones House]], c. 1860
==References==
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[[Category:19th-century American architects]]
[[Category:Architects from New York (state)]]
[[Category:People from Columbia County, New York]]
[[Category:People from Duanesburg, New York]]