MMA named to Ocean Home magazine’s Top 50 Coastal Architects
Ocean Home magazine, one of the world’s premier publications for oceanfront residential design, lifestyle, and real estate, has selected MMA to its Top 50 Coastal Architects List. This is the fourth year in a row the firm has earned this honor.
This year, Ocean Home magazine’s annual Top 50 Coastal Architects listing changed its layout and structure to provide detailed highlights about each of the top 50 architecture firms selected for this prestigious honor across the United States.
Organized by state, MMA is listed again alongside the biggest names in the New England region’s top residential architecture firms. “We are quite pleased to have received this honor four years running,” says Anthony M. Frausto, AIA, LEED AP, associate principal at Morehouse MacDonald and Associates. “And the magazine’s editors gave us quite an appropriate nickname in their write-up calling us ‘The Adaptors’ because of our firm’s ability and history to respond to diverse regions and client interests.”
Of the top residential architects listed in Massachusettes, only Morehouse MacDonald and Associates has a national and international portfolio, reflecting our client’s confidence in our expertise and competences in diverse and demanding coastal environments.
This year, MMA is busy with several projects from existing clients as we adapt and expand existing properties better to suit clients’ needs in a post-pandemic world. The firm has recently finalized a contemporary oceanfront home on Cape Cod. It has other seaside projects in New Jersey, South Carolina’s Kiawah Island, and the West Indies and new projects in the mountains of Vermont and Metro Boston.
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Elizabeth Cameron joined Morehouse MacDonald and Associates as an interior designer in 2017, to help us with interior design projects in the Lesser Antilles. The Oklahoma native moved to Boston in 2012 to pursue a degree in Architectural Studies with a minor in Visual Arts from Boston University which she received in January of 2016. She also studied European architectural history in Venice during her education at Boston University. Elizabeth earned her Masters of Arts degree in Interior Architecture at Suffolk University in 2018.
Anthony M. Frausto-Robledo, AIA, LEED AP, has been with MMA since 1999. In 2018 he was promoted to associate principal and in 2025 to principal and partner.
Kyle McCreight Carroll is a talented project designer who graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies from Oberlin College and received her Master of Architecture from Miami University.
Duncan Morton joined the MMA team as a Project Architect. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Bates College and a Master’s in Education from Boston College.
James Christopherson joined MMA in 2000 and brings diverse experiences in design and building construction expertise spanning more than 25 years. Among those are several years in the design of large-scale medical facilities, assisted care communities, and nursing homes. James has also practiced for several years as an independent architectural designer and visual communications consultant. He has designed private residences, condominiums, banks, libraries, and office buildings; additionally, he has produced major illustrations for many of the Boston areas’ most respected architecture firms.
John S. MacDonald, AIA, is principal and owner of Morehouse MacDonald and Associates, Inc. and has served in that capacity since 1988, directing the firm’s growth and management. John serves as Principal-in-Charge of each project and is responsible for setting overall design direction within the firm. His designs have appeared in numerous design and professional magazines such as Architectural Digest, Metropolitan Home, Better Homes & Gardens, House Beautiful, Boston Common, Cape Cod & Islands Home Magazine, Boston Magazine and Trends Magazine. In addition, John has appeared on the cable television channel HGTV discussing the firm’s architectural work and showcasing several key projects.
