Emerson, William, 1873-1957

Scope and Contents Correspondents include Chester H. Aldrich, A. J. Bloor, W.F. Brooks, Alice D. Chandler, Richard Dana Jr., Huger Elliot, William Emerson, Henry W. Frohme, W. G. Gamrett, Edward W. Greenleaf, Alfred H. Gumaer, Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin, Charles Sumner Kaiser, Henry Snyder Kissam, A. W. Longfellow, Robert L. Rantoul, David H. Ray, Frank Dempster Sherman, Madame M. Singer, Lucian M. Smith, Roderick Stebbins, N. H. Stone, Harriet Ware, H. Langford Warren, Alexander McM. Welch, and Philip R....

Abstract The firm of Howe, Manning & Almy is believed to be the first architectural firm in Boston founded by women and the second in the United States. Lois Lilley Howe (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SB 1890), whose commissions began in 1894, established her own firm in 1900 and asked Eleanor Manning (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SB 1906), one of her draftsmen, to be her partner in 1913, creating the firm of Lois Lilley Howe & Manning. In 1926, another draftsman from the...

Scope and Contents of the Collection

The collection consists of a drawing made by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor William Emerson while he was a student at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1898; articles and news clippings about Emerson's activities, 1924-1945; and the manuscript of his writings on American architectural education.