Finegold Alexander Architects

Finegold Alexander Architects was established in Boston in 1961 as J. Timothy Anderson & Associates by J. Timothy Anderson (1932-2001), a 1958 graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 1965 he was joined by his former classmate George M. Notter (1933-2007) and in 1970 the firm was renamed Anderson Notter Associates.[1] In 1976 Anderson Notter received the first AIA Honor Award for Extended Use for the 1971 conversion of Boston's Old City Hall to a private office and restaurant use.[2] In 1977 Maurice Finegold (born 1932) became a principal and the firm was renamed Anderson Notter Finegold. In 1984 Anderson retired, James Alexander became a principal and the firm was renamed Notter Finegold & Alexander.

In 1992 Notter, who had been managing the firm's Washington, D.C. office, retired to establish his own practice,[3] and the firm became Finegold Alexander & Associates. This name was changed to Finegold Alexander + Associates in 2011 and to the present Finegold Alexander Architects in 2015.[4] Finegold and Alexander retired as principals in 2021.[5] As of 2023 the firm is led by president Rebecca L. Berry, vice president Ellen K. Anselone and four additional principals.[6]

Works by Finegold Alexander Architects and its predecessor firms have included:

• Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts (1969)
• Old City Hall adaptive reuse, Boston (1971)
• Long Wharf Custom House Block adaptive reuse, Boston (1973)
• New London Union Station adaptive reuse, New London, Connecticut (1976)
• Mechanics Hall restoration, Worcester, Massachusetts (1977)
• Intelsat headquarters,[lower-alpha 1] Washington, D.C. (1984 and 1988)
• Cabot House and Pforzheimer House rehabilitation, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1986)[7]
• Sidney R. Yates Federal Building rehabilitation, Washington, D.C. (1987)[7]
• Ellis Island adaptive reuse,[lower-alpha 2] New York City (1990)[8]
• William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building renovation, Washington, D.C. (1993)[7]
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,[lower-alpha 3] Washington, D.C. (1993)
• Nott Memorial restoration, Union College, Schenectady, New York (1995)
• Jose V. Toledo Federal Building and United States Courthouse restoration, San Juan, Puerto Rico (1999)
• Union Station rehabilitation, Worcester, Massachusetts (2000)
• Students' Building renovation, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York (2003)