Many well-known architects in the Boston area made their mark in the village of Waban. All of the architects below lived in Waban and also designed buildings that still shape the sense of place in the village:

• Lewis H. Bacon with his partner, Clinton Hill, (Bacon & Hill) designed the Strong Building on Beacon Street, featuring gables extending with a Flemish step pattern. The architect’s rendering appeared in American Architect & Building News (Oct 31, 1896). Bacon also designed the Engine 6 Firehouse [image at right], as well as his own shingle-style residence at 703 Chestnut Street and a Georgian Revival home at 627 Chestnut Street.
• Herbert Langford Warren (1957 -1917) founded the School of Architecture at Harvard University. He lived at 401 Woodward Street in the 1880s and designed several other residences on Woodward Street and on Windsor Road.
• William F. Goodwin was a member of the Waban Christian Union, which funded the construction of the Church of the Good Shepherd in 1896. He donated his skills as architect for this church, which was inspired by the Medieval Revival style. Goodwinalso designed his own house at 658 Chestnut Street, near Beacon Street. He and Henry Siter had an architectural practice in Boston.
• Felix A. Burton designed the 1926 extension to the Parish of the Good Shepherd.
• James Henry Ritchie (born in Scotland, 1878) designed the Union Church and other Newton public buildings, including the Police Headquarters and the Newton Court House on Washington Street.
• The firm of Densmore, LeClear & Robbins designed the Waban Library Center in 1929.

Outside of the village center, residential architecture also determines the look and feel of the Village of Waban. Many Waban houses, in styles ranging from Shingle and Colonial Revival to early-20^th century Craftsman, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.