Résumé

Lieutenant, United States Navy, 1942-1945.

Draftsman / Designer, Francis Joseph McCarthy, Architect, San Francisco, CA, c. 1945.

Draftsman / Designer, Francis E. Lloyd, Architect, San Francisco, CA, c. 1948.

Project Architect, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, Architects, San Francisco, CA, c. 1952.

Associate, Eugene E. Crawford, Architect.

Partner, [Eugene E.] Crawford and Banning, Architects, San Rafael, CA, 1959- .

Professional Activities

Registered Architect in the State of CA, c. 1962, likely before. (See "Banning George V(Room)," American Architects Directory, Second Edition, [New York, NY: R.R. Bowker and Company,1962], p. 32.)

Member, City of Belvedere Planning Commission, Belvedere, CA, 1960.

Director, Marin County Planning Council, 1960.

College

A.B., Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1939.

B.Arch., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1940-1942.

College Awards

Cum Laude, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1939.

Relocation

George Vroom Banning was born on 1917 in Hackensack, NJ. His parent were William P. and Helen Banning. His father worked, in 1920, as the Vice President of a NJ sugar company. In that year, the Bannings lived at 261 Summit Avenue in New Barbadoes section northwest of Hackensack. It was a wealthy neighborhood in 1920, with neighbors being professionals and corporate executives. The household included his parents, his sister Helen, and two African-American household workers, Edna Jeter (born c. 1893 in VA) and Nora Jeter, (born c. 1899 in VA). (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1920; Census Place: Hackensack Ward 3, Bergen, New Jersey; Roll: T625_1019; Page: 15B; Enumeration District: 80, accessed 01/29/2026.)

While a student at Harvard University on 10/16/1940, Banning listed his parent's address as being 261 Summit Avenue in Hackensack, NJ. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; Wwii Draft Registration Cards For New Jersey, 10/16/1940-03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147; Box: 27, accessed 01/29/2026.)

Biographical Notes

His World War II draft registration car stated that George V. Banning was Caucasian with a light complexion, brown eyes and brown hair. He stood 6-feet tall and weighed 175 pounds. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; Wwii Draft Registration Cards For New Jersey, 10/16/1940-03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147; Box: 27, accessed 01/29/2026.)