James McNeely Architects

Portfolio

The firm has designed over one hundred and twenty-five condominiums and apartments, some of them in former rooming houses and schools.

In 1974 Mr. McNeely designed, co-developed, syndicated, and sold 34 Hancock Street, the first purpose-built condominium in Boston.  It replaced two rooming houses that were partly destroyed by fire.  Seventeen apartments are served by an elevator opening directly to each unit.

In 1977 Mr. McNeely secured Federal Community Development Block Grant funds to transform Temple Street, behind the State House, into a landscaped pedestrian way.  He has redesigned eight rooming houses on this block into twenty-eight apartments.

In 1982 the firm redesigned 45 and 47 Mount Vernon Street, formerly antiquated school classrooms and offices, into fifteen apartments. 

In 1984 the firm designed a new five-story apartment building at Charles Circle.

In 1987 the firm designed a new glass-walled penthouse overlooking the Boston Public Garden for the owner of the Hampshire House, site of the recent “Cheers” television show.  In 2000, the firm designed a 7,000 square foot glass-walled apartment overlooking the Boston Common in the Ritz-Carlton Towers, and a condominium at 2 Commonwealth Avenue.