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William Ralph Emerson (March 11, 1833 – November 23, 1917) was an American architect. He partnered with Carl Fehmer in Emerson and Fehmer.




Early life and education


A cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson, William was born in Alton, Illinois, and trained in the office of Jonathan Preston (1801–1888), an architect–builder in Boston. He formed an architectural partnership with Preston (1857–1861), practiced alone for two years, then partnered with Carl Fehmer (1864–1873).
He is best known for his Shingle Style houses and inns, many of them in Bar Harbor, Maine. He worked with fellow Boston designer Frederick Law Olmsted on the creation of the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., designing several of the zoo's first buildings.
Emerson was a friend of the Boston painter William Morris Hunt, who painted a portrait of Emerson's son Ralph, shown at an exhibition of Hunt's work at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1880.
Emerson died in Milton, Massachusetts.




Personal life


On September 15, 1873 he married Sylvia Hathaway Watson.




Selected works


1869 Sanford-Covell Villa Marina [1], 72 Washington Street, Newport, Rhode Island
1869 Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Mansion renovation, Woodstock, Vermont
1875 Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital, Harrison Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts
1878 Eustis Estate, Canton Avenue, Milton, Massachusetts
1878 Summer cottage of Boston painter William Morris Hunt, Magnolia, Massachusetts
1879 Redwood, C. J. Morrill House, Bar Harbor, Maine
1881 Boston Art Club, 150 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts
1887 Saint Jude's Episcopal Church, Seal Harbor, Mount Desert, Maine
1887 Saint Margaret's Roman Catholic Church, Beverly Farms, Massachusetts
1887 Tianderah, stone and shingle residence, Gilbertsville, New York; Listed on the National Historic Register, November 2, 1978 #78001894
1888 Fitz Cottage, Jackson, New Hampshire
1889 William James House, 95 Irving Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1890 The Reading Room, now part of the Bar Harbor Inn, Bar Harbor, Maine
1890–1892 The Hotel Claremont, Claremont, New Hampshire
1896 Felsted, a cottage for Frederick Law Olmsted, Deer Isle, Maine




References



The Architecture of William Ralph Emerson, catalog by Cynthia Zaitzevsky with photography by Myron Miller, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass. 1969.




External links


Media related to William Ralph Emerson (American architect) at Wikimedia Commons
For more on William Ralph Emerson, see wremerson.org

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