Atlanta Magazine Tudor Treasure: Architect Frank Neely designs an Old English home in Buckhead This new home wasn’t just designed to look like a manor it was built using the same time-tested methods Photograph by Emily Followill In 2008, architect Frank Neely’s clients called him with bad news. They’d decided not to go ahead with the renovation he’d drafted of the 1940s-era Buckhead home where they’d lived for more than 15 years. But three years later, the couple came calling again: They wanted him to create a completely new house a grand English Tudor. Architect Frank Neely specializes in historic design.