A number of architects worked in the Back Bay, contributing their designs to the impressive and varied collection of buildings that comprise the neighborhood. In many cases, the identity of a building’s architect has not, as yet, been identified. Fortunately, however, the designers are known in many other cases.
The list below includes the architects and architectural firms who have been identified in connection with Back Bay residential buildings through the mid-twentieth century, and links to individual pages which list the Back Bay work with which they are identified. Often, an architect would be associated with several different firms during his career. Accordingly, both individual architects and architectural firms are listed. with the houses they designed listed under both headings.
- Alden, Henry Bailey
- Aldrich, William Truman
- Allbright, Clifford
- Allen and Kenway
- Allen, Francis Richmond
- Andrews and Jaques
- Andrews, Robert Day
- Atwood, Charles Bowler
- Austin, William Downes
- Avery, George Alden
- Bellows and Aldrich
- Bellows, Robert Peabody
- Besarick, John H.
- Bigelow and Wadsworth
- Bigelow, Wadsworth, Hubbard, and Smith
- Bigelow, Henry Forbes
- Bither, Alfred S.
- Blackall and Elwell
- Blackall, Clarence Howard
- Blackall, Robert Murray
- Blaikie and Blaikie
- Blodget, William Power
- Bowditch, Arthur Hunnewell
- Boyden, Ernest Niebuhr
- Bradlee and Winslow
- Bradlee, Winslow, and Wetherell
- Bradlee, Nathaniel Jeremiah
- Briggs, Luther, Jr.
- Briggs, Theophilus Parsons
- Brigham and Spofford
- Brigham, Charles
- Brown, Parker Joseph
- Browne, Herbert Wheildon Cotton
- Bryant and Gilman
- Bryant and Rogers
- Bryant, Gridley James Fox
- Burr, George Houston
- Cabot and Chandler
- Cabot, Everett, and Mead
- Cabot, Edward Clarke
- Chandler, Francis Ward
- Chapman and Frazer
- Chapman, John Henry
- Chapman, William
- Chase, William Chester
- Clark and Curtis
- Clark, Theodore Minot
- Clarke, George Ripley
- Codman, Ogden, Jr.
- Coolidge, Charles Allerton
- Coolidge, Joseph Randolph, Jr.
- Cox, Allen Howard
- Cox, William Henry
- Craig, John J.
- Cram and Ferguson
- Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson
- Cram, Ralph Adams
- Cummings and Sears
- Cummings, Charles Amos
- Curtis, Edgar Corrie
- Davidson, Harry E.
- Davies, Charles H.
- Desmond, George Henri
- Dinsmoor, William Weare
- Doane, Ralph Harrington
- Dodge, Edwin Sherrill
- Drisko, Oramander Howard
- Dunham, Charles Blanchard
- Dwight and Chandler
- Dwight, Henry Hyde
- Dykeman and Murray
- Dykeman, William Arthur
- Eisenberg and Feer
- Eisenberg, Samuel Saul
- Emerson and Fehmer
- Emerson, William Ralph
- Epps, Thomas Byrd
- Everett, Arthur Greene
- Faulkner and Clarke
- Faulkner, Horatio Floyd
- Faxon, John Lyman
- Feer, Herman Louis
- Fehmer and Page
- Fehmer, Carl
- Fisher, Richard Arnold
- Fox, John Andrews
- Frazer, Horace Southworth
- Frink, Alden
- Funk and Wilcox
- Furr, Leon Lewis
- Gildersleeve, Raleigh Colston
- Gilman, Arthur Delavan
- Gore, Henry Watson, Jr.
- Graham, Edward T. P.
- Graves, Harold Symmes
- Greco, Charles Reggio
- Gregerson, James Roby
- Hall, John Roulstone
- Hartwell and Richardson
- Hartwell, Henry Walker
- Haven and Hoyt
- Haven, Parkman Blake
- Hepburn, Andrew Hopewell
- Hopkins, James Cleveland
- Howe, Lois Lilley
- Howe (Lois L.) and Manning
- Howe, Manning, and Almy
- Hoyt, Edward Harrison
- Hunnewell, Henry Sargent
- Hunt, Richard Morris
- Jackson, Francis Henry
- Jacobs, George Nelson
- Jacobs, William Nelson
- James, Thomas Marriott
- Jaques, Herbert
- Kelley, James Templeton
- Kelley, Samuel Dudley
- Kellogg, Harold Field
- Kenway, Herbert Phipps
- Kessler, S. J. and Sons
- Kiessling, Homer
- Kilham and Hopkins
- Kilham, Hopkins, and Greeley
- Kilham, Walter Harrington
- Kimball, Thomas Rogers
- Kirby and Lewis
- Kirby, Charles Kirk
- Krokyn and Browne
- Krokyn and Krokyn
- Krokyn, Jacob Frederick
- Law, Alexander Francis
- Lee, James Stearns
- Lewis and Paine
- Lewis, Frederick Octavius
- Lewis, George Wilton
- Lewis, William Whitney
- Little and Browne
- Little, Arthur
- Lois L. Howe and Manning
- Longfellow, Alexander Wadsworth, Jr.
- Loring and Leland
- Loring, Charles Greely
- Louis, Meyer
- Luce, Clarence Sumner
- Mackay and Dunham
- Mackay, Henry Squarebriggs
- Manning, Alfred John
- Manning, Eleanor
- Martin, Abel Camp
- McKay and Smith
- McKim, Mead, and White
- McKim, Charles Follen
- McLaughlin and Burr
- McLaughlin, James E.
- Meacham, George Frederick
- Mead, Samuel W.
- Mead, William Rutherford
- Meade, Maurice Patrick
- Merrick, Clark F.
- Moffie, Saul E.
- Monks and Johnson
- Moore, Frederic H.
- Murray, John Frederick
- Page, Samuel Francis
- Paine, Walter Jefferson
- Parker, Thomas, and Rice
- Parker, John Harleston
- Peabody and Stearns
- Peabody, Robert Swain
- Perry, Shaw, and Hepburn
- Peters and Rice
- Peters, William York
- Pope, Frederick B.
- Pope, George Washington
- Preston, William Gibbons
- Pryor, Roy Thomas
- Putnam and Allen
- Putnam and Cox
- Putnam, Eliot Thwing
- Putnam, John Pickering
- Putnam, William Edward, Jr.
- Rand, George Dutton
- Rand, James Hovey
- Rantoul, William Gibbons
- Read, Edward Sears
- Rice, Arthur Wallace
- Rich and Tucker
- Richards and Richards
- Richards, Henry
- Richards, Joseph Ruggles
- Richards, William Phillips
- Richardson, Barott, and Richardson
- Richardson, Henry Hobson
- Richardson, William Cummings
- Richmond, Miles Standish
- Riskin, Archie
- Rogers, Louis Phillippe
- Rotch and Tilden
- Rotch, Arthur
- Russell, C. A. and F. N.
- Russell, Cornelius A.
- Russell, Fred Nelson
- Rutan, Charles Hercules
- Schweinfurth, Julius Adolphe
- Sears, Willard Thomas
- Shaw and Hunnewell
- Shaw and Shaw
- Shaw, George Russell
- Shaw, Robert Gould
- Shepard and Stearns
- Shepard, George Frederick, Jr.
- Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge
- Shepley, George Foster
- Silloway, Thomas William
- Smith, Frank Warren
- Smith, Obed F.
- Snell and Gregerson
- Snell, George
- Spofford, John Calvin
- Stearns, Frederic Baldwin
- Stearns, John Goddard
- Stebbins, Ralph Gilbert
- Stephenson, Harris Marshall
- Strack, Otto
- Stratton, Edward Bowman
- Strickland, Blodget, and Law
- Strickland, Sidney Talbot
- Stubbins, Hugh Asher
- Sturgis and Brigham
- Sturgis, John Hubbard
- Sturgis, Richard Clipston
- Sylvester, Edmund Quincy
- Wadsworth, Philip
- Walker and Kimball
- Walker, Charles Howard
- Ware and Van Brunt
- Ware, William Robert
- Waters, Manning (Mendal Waters)
- Waters, Mendal (aka Manning Waters)
- Way, Charles Henry
- Wead, Frederick Whitcomb
- Weatherley, Charles Gordon
- Weissbein, Louis
- Wentworth, William Pitt
- Weston and Rand
- Weston, Frank William
- Wetherell, George Homans
- White, Stanford
- Whiting, George Clarke
- Winslow and Bigelow
- Winslow and Wetherell
- Winslow, Walter Thacher
- Woodward, William E.