The Harleston Parker Medal was established in 1921 by J. Harleston Parker

J. Harleston Parker

J. Harleston Parker was an American architect active in Boston, Massachusetts.Parker was born in Boston, graduated from Harvard University in 1893, then studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, after a further four years at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, took his...

 to recognize “such architects as shall have, in the opinion of the Boston Society of Architects. . . completed the erection for any private citizen, association, corporation, or public authority, the most beautiful piece of architecture, building, monument or structure within the limits of the City of Boston or of the Metropolitan Parks District”.

Projects in the Greater Boston area built in the past 10 years by any architect anywhere in the world are eligible. This area includes Arlington, Belmont, Boston, Braintree, Brookline, Cambridge, Canton, Chelsea, Dedham, Dover, Everett, Hingham, Hull, Lynn, Malden, Medford, Melrose, Milton, Nahant, Needham, Newton, Quincy, Revere, Saugus, Somerville, Stoneham, Swampscott, Wakefield, Waltham, Watertown,
Wellesley, Weston, Weymouth, Winchester, Winthrop and Woburn.

List of medal recipients

Year	Architect	Building	Location
1923	Coolidge and Shattuck	Boston Lying-in Hospital	Boston
1924	Parker, Thomas and Rice	John Hancock Building	Boston
1925	No award
1926	Maginnis & Walsh	Science Building, Boston College	Brookline
1927	Ralph Harrington Doane	Motor Mart	Boston
1928	No award
1929	No award
1930	Richard J. Shaw Richard J. Shaw Richard J. Shaw, AIA, was an American architect active in mid-twentieth-century Boston, Massachusetts and partner in the architectural firm of O’Connell and Shaw and founding principal in the eponymous architectural firm that specialized in ecclesiastical design.-Early life and education:Shaw...	Immaculate Conception Convent	Malden
1931	No award
1932	No award
1933	No award
1934	Perry, Shaw & Hepburn	Alice Longfellow Hall, Radcliffe	Cambridge
1935	No award
1936	Allen, Collens & Willis	Newton City Hall Newton City Hall and War Memorial The Newton City Hall and War Memorial is an historic building located at 1000 Commonwealth Avenue, in the village of Newton Centre in Newton, Massachusetts...	Newton
1937	No award
1938	Coolidge Shepley Bulfinch and Abbott	Lowell House Lowell House Lowell House is one of the twelve undergraduate residential houses within Harvard College, located on Holyoke Place facing Mount Auburn Street between the Harvard Yard and the Charles River... , Harvard	Cambridge
1939	Cram & Ferguson	Conventual Church of St. Mary and St. John Conventual Church of St. Mary and St. John Conventual Church of St. Mary and St. John is an historic Episcopal church at 980 Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts.The church was built in 1936, to designs by architect Ralph Adams Cram, and added to the National Historic Register in 1982. It is home to monks of the Society of Saint John...	Cambridge
1940	No award
1941	Richard J. Shaw Richard J. Shaw Richard J. Shaw, AIA, was an American architect active in mid-twentieth-century Boston, Massachusetts and partner in the architectural firm of O’Connell and Shaw and founding principal in the eponymous architectural firm that specialized in ecclesiastical design.-Early life and education:Shaw...	Edward Hatch Memorial Music Shell	Boston
1942	No award
1943	Perry, Shaw & Hepburn	Houghton Library Houghton Library Houghton Library is the primary repository for rare books and manuscripts at Harvard University. It is part of the Harvard College Library within the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Houghton is located on the south side of Harvard Yard, next to Widener Library.- History :Harvard's first... , Harvard University	Cambridge
1944	No award
1945	No award
1946	Richard J. Shaw Richard J. Shaw Richard J. Shaw, AIA, was an American architect active in mid-twentieth-century Boston, Massachusetts and partner in the architectural firm of O’Connell and Shaw and founding principal in the eponymous architectural firm that specialized in ecclesiastical design.-Early life and education:Shaw...	St. Clement's Church	West Somerville
1947	No award
1948	No award
1949	Richmond & Goldberg	Southern Brookline Community Center, Temple Emeth	Brookline
1950	Cram & Ferguson	John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co., Berkeley St.	Boston
1951	Brown, DeMars, Kennedy, Koch & Rapson	100 Memorial Drive apartment building	Cambridge
1952	Arland A. Dirlam	University Lutheran Church	Cambridge
1953	Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott	Allston Burr Lecture Hall, Harvard	Cambridge
1954	Maginnis & Walsh & Kennedy	Nazareth Child Care Center	Boston
1955	Hugh Stubbins & Associates	Country School	Weston
1956	Richard J. Shaw Richard J. Shaw Richard J. Shaw, AIA, was an American architect active in mid-twentieth-century Boston, Massachusetts and partner in the architectural firm of O’Connell and Shaw and founding principal in the eponymous architectural firm that specialized in ecclesiastical design.-Early life and education:Shaw...	Corpus Christi Church	Auburndale
1957	Anderson Beckwith & Haible	Boston Manufacturers Mutual and Mutual Boiler Machinery Co. Office Building	Waltham
1958	Skidmore, Owings & Merrill	Karl Taylor Compton Laboratories, MIT	Cambridge
1959	José Luis Sert	Sert Residence at 64 Francis Street	Cambridge
1960	Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott	Quincy House Quincy House (Harvard) Quincy House is one of the twelve upperclass residential houses of Harvard University, located on Plympton Street between Harvard Yard and the Charles River. Quincy House was named after Josiah Quincy III , president of Harvard from 1829 to 1845. It is the second largest of the twelve... , Harvard	Cambridge
1961	The Architects Collaborative	Academic Quadrangle, Brandeis	Waltham
1962	No award
1963	No award
1964	Le Corbusier Le Corbusier Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier , was a Swiss-born French architect, designer, urbanist, writer and painter, famous for being one of the pioneers of what now is called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in 1930...  (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) in association with Sert, Jackson & Gourley	Carpenter Visual Arts Center Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts is the only building actually built by Le Corbusier in the United States, and one of only two in the Americas... , Harvard	Cambridge
1965	I.M. Pei & Associates	The Earth Sciences Building Green Building (MIT) The Cecil and Ida Green Building, also called the Green Building or Building 54, is an academic and research building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It was designed by noted architect I. M. Pei, who received his bachelor's degree from MIT in...  (The Green Center for Earth Sciences), MIT	Cambridge
1966	Sert, Jackson & Gourley	Peabody Terrace, Harvard	Cambridge
1967	Sert, Jackson and Associates	Holyoke Center, Harvard	Cambridge
1968	No award
1969	Kallmann McKinnell and Knowles in association with Campbell, Aldrich and Nulty, and LeMessurier Associates	Boston City Hall Boston City Hall Boston City Hall is the seat of the municipal government of Boston, Massachusetts. Architecturally, it is an example of the brutalist style. It was designed by Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles...	Boston
1970	Benjamin Thompson and Associates	Design Research International	Cambridge
1971	Edward Larrabee Barnes Edward Larrabee Barnes Edward Larrabee Barnes was a American architect.Barnes was born in Chicago, Illinois into a family he described as "incense-swinging High Episcopalians", consisting of Cecil Barnes, a lawyer, and Margaret Helen Ayer, recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for the novel Year of Grace...  FAIA and Emery Roth Emery Roth Emery Roth was an American architect who designed many of the definitive New York City hotels and apartment buildings of the 1920s and 30s, incorporating Beaux-Arts and Art Deco details...  and Sons, Associated Architects	New England Merchants National Bank Building	Boston
1972	The Architects Collaborative	Children's Hospital Medical Center	Boston
1973	Benjamin Thompson and Associates	Monroe C. Gutman Library, Graduate School of Education, Harvard	Cambridge
1974	Kallmann and McKinnell	Boston Five Cents Savings Bank	Boston
1975	I.M. Pei & Partners, in association with Araldo Cossutta, Architect	Christian Science Center, Boston	Boston
1976	Sert Jackson and Associates	Harvard University Science Center Harvard Science Center The Harvard University Science Center is the major teaching venue on Harvard University campus for undergraduate science and mathematics.The Science Center was designed by Catalan architect Josep Lluís Sert, then dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and built in 1973...	Cambridge
1977	Benjamin Thompson and Associates	Quincy Market Building, Faneuil Hall Marketplace	Boston
1978	The Architects Collaborative	Josiah Quincy Community School	Boston
1979	Charles G. Hilgenhurst Associates	East Cambridge Savings Bank East Cambridge Savings Bank East Cambridge Savings Bank is an historic bank at 292 Cambridge Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.The bank was built in 1931 and was added to the National Historic Register in 1982....	Cambridge
1980	I.M. Pei & Partners	Dreyfus Laboratory, MIT	Cambridge
1981	The Stubbins Associates	Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Federal Reserve Bank of Boston The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, commonly known as the Boston Fed, is responsible for the First District of the Federal Reserve, which covers most of Connecticut , Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. It is headquartered in the Federal Reserve Bank Building in Boston,...	Boston
1982	Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Kallmann McKinnell & Wood is an architectural design firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, established in 1962 as Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles by Gerhard M. Kallmann, Michael McKinnell, and Edward Knowles.-History:...	American Academy of Arts and Sciences American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems. The Academy’s elected members are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs.James Bowdoin, John Adams, and...	Cambridge
1983	I.M. Pei & Partners	John Hancock Tower John Hancock Tower The John Hancock Tower, officially named Hancock Place and colloquially known as The Hancock, is a 60-story, 790-foot skyscraper in Boston. The tower was designed by Henry N. Cobb of the firm I. M. Pei & Partners and was completed in 1976...	Boston
1984	No award
1985	Graham Gund Graham Gund Graham de Conde Gund is an American architect and the president of the Gund Partnership, an American architecture firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and founded by Gund in 1971...  Architects	Church Court Condominiums	Boston
1986	No award
1987	Perry Dean Rogers & Partners	Wellesley College Science Center	Wellesley
1988	Koetter, Kim & Associates	Codex World Headquarters	Canton
1989	Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Kallmann McKinnell & Wood is an architectural design firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, established in 1962 as Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles by Gerhard M. Kallmann, Michael McKinnell, and Edward Knowles.-History:...	Hynes Convention Center Hynes Convention Center The John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center located in Boston was built in 1988 from a design by architects Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood. It replaced a previous building, also a convention center, regarded as "ungainly." The 1988 design "attempted to relate in scale and materials to its...	Boston
1990	Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Kallmann McKinnell & Wood is an architectural design firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, established in 1962 as Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles by Gerhard M. Kallmann, Michael McKinnell, and Edward Knowles.-History:...	Shad Hall, Harvard Business School	Allston
1991	Frank O. Gehry & Associates with Schwartz/Silver Architects	360 Newbury Street	Boston
1992	SOM, Parsons Brinkerhoff Quade & Douglas, The Halvorson Company, Ellenzweig Associates, and LeMessurier Consultants	The Park and Garage at Post Office Square	Boston
1993	Schwartz/Silver Architects	Rotch Library, MIT	Cambridge
1994	Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Kallmann McKinnell & Wood is an architectural design firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, established in 1962 as Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles by Gerhard M. Kallmann, Michael McKinnell, and Edward Knowles.-History:...	Hauser Hall, Harvard Law School	Cambridge
1995	No award
1996	Leers Weinzapfel Associates in association with Chisholm Washington Architects	George Robert White Youth Development Center	Boston
1997	Stanley Saitowitz	New England Holocaust Memorial New England Holocaust Memorial The New England Holocaust Memorial is a memorial in Boston, Massachusetts. It is dedicated to the Jews who were killed in the Holocaust.-Information:...	Boston
1998	No award
1999	Shared Award: Graham Gund Graham Gund Graham de Conde Gund is an American architect and the president of the Gund Partnership, an American architecture firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and founded by Gund in 1971...  Architects; TAMS/Gannet Fleming/URS/Wallace Floyd Design Group/Stull and Lee	The Lincoln School, Brookline; Vent Building #7 at Logan Airport	Brookline; Boston
2000	Jose Rafael Moneo, Arquitecto and Payette Associates	Davis Art Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College	Wellesley
2001	Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott	Boston Public Library Boston Public Library The Boston Public Library is a municipal public library system in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was the first publicly supported municipal library in the United States, the first large library open to the public in the United States, and the first public library to allow people to...  renovation of the original McKim Mead & White building	Boston
2002	Office dA in association with SmartArchitecture	Northeastern University Multi-Faith Spiritual Center	Boston
2003	Machado and Silvetti Associates Machado and Silvetti Associates Machado and Silvetti Associates is an architecture and urban design firm headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Incorporated in 1985, the firm's principals Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti have been in association since 1974...	Honan-Allston Branch Library	Allston
2004	Steven Holl Steven Holl Steven Holl is an American architect and watercolorist, perhaps best known for the 1998 Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, Finland, the 2003 Simmons Hall at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the celebrated 2007 Bloch Building addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City,...  Architects with Perry Dean Rogers Partners	Simmons Hall, MIT	Cambridge
2005	William Rawn Associates	Northeastern University's College of Computer and Information Science & Residence	Boston
2006	Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects	Wang Campus Center, Wellesley College	Wellesley
2007	Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Perry Dean Rogers Partners	Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston	Boston
2008	Behnisch, Behnisch + Partner with Next Phase Studio	[Genzyme Center]http://genzymecenter.com	Cambridge
2009	Anmahian Winton Architects	Community Rowing, Inc.	Brighton
2010	William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc. with Ann Beha Architects	Cambridge Public Library Cambridge Public Library The Cambridge Public Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts is part of the Minuteman Library Network. The library includes a headquarters and several branch buildings throughout the city....	Cambridge