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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. The Hotel Claremont, built in 1890–1892, Claremont, New Hampshire.
Despite his deep associations with New England culture and architecture, William Ralph Emerson was born in Alton, Illinois on March 11, 1833. His parents – Dr. William S. Emerson and Olive L. Bourne – were natives of Kennebunk, Maine, but the family moved west as Dr. Emerson became involved in land speculation.
With a career that spanned six decades and more than 500 designs, William Ralph Emerson is best known today as a prolific Boston architect. His impact and influence on New England’s built environment was recognized by his peers and, in later years by architectural historians as well.
19 de mai. de 2016 · Learn about William Ralph Emerson, a self-taught architect who designed homes and buildings in Connecticut, Vermont, and Massachusetts. He is best known for his Shingle Style, a distinctive American style that evolved from his earlier Queen Anne and Gothic designs.
19 de ago. de 2020 · William Ralph Emerson, born in 1833, was an architect and the second cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson. He worked to design several of the first buildings for the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. He died in Milton, Massachusetts, in 1917.
As an architect Emerson worked for prominent writers including William James and Thomas Baily Aldrich. Inviting the novelist to dinner in 1891, Emerson described the evening he planned: “no dress coat, no especial manners, no temperance in eating, drinking + smoking.”
14 de mar. de 2024 · The William Ralph Emerson database is a collaboration between Historic New England and many cultural institutions and individuals. Visit the database and explore all of Emerson’s known commissions, including those no longer standing and those that were never built.
