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William Ralph Emerson -LRB- March 11 , 1833 -- November 23 , 1917 -RRB- was an American architect .. architect. architect. He partnered with Carl Fehmer in Emerson and Fehmer .. Carl Fehmer. Carl Fehmer. Emerson and Fehmer. Emerson and Fehmer. Emerson was born in Alton , Illinois , a cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson , and trained in the office of Jonathan Preston -LRB- 1801 -- 1888 -RRB- , an architect -- builder in Boston , Massachusetts .. architect. architect. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson. He formed an architectural partnership with Preston -LRB- 1857 -- 1861 -RRB- , practiced alone for two years , then partnered with Carl Fehmer -LRB- 1864 -- 1873 -RRB- .. Carl Fehmer. Carl Fehmer. On September 15 , 1873 he married Sylvia Hathaway Watson .. He is best known for his Shingle Style houses and inns , many of them in Bar Harbor , Maine .. Shingle Style. Shingle Style. 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 .. Frederick Law Olmsted. Frederick Law Olmsted. Emerson was a friend to 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 .. William Morris Hunt. William Morris Hunt. Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Emerson died in Milton , Massachusetts .