James McNeely Architects

Biography

Mr. McNeely received undergraduate and graduate degrees from Yale University where he studied with Vincent Scully and Paul Rudolph.  Before starting his firm in 1974, he worked with Rudolph in New Haven and Boston, with Benjamin Thompson in Cambridge, and served as Urban Design Officer for the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority.

He has been an architectural consultant for the planning offices at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He has taught courses at Harvard University, served on design juries at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has lectured and written frequently about the nineteenth century houses of Beacon Hill. He has been an officer of the Beacon Hill Architectural Commission and the Beacon Hill Civic Association.  He is currently an officer of the North Bennet Street School and a Council Member of Historic New England.

He is married to Barbara W. Moore, co-author and publisher of Beacon Hill, A Living Portrait, and Back Bay, A Living Portrait. They divide their time between Beacon Hill and South Freeport, Maine.