Stone, Carpenter & Willson

Stone, Carpenter & Willson was a Providence, Rhode Island–based architectural firm in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.

It was established about 1885 when Willson became a full partner in the Providence architectural firm of Stone & Carpenter.

He worked for Towle & Foster, Shepard S. Woodcock,[4] Washburn & Brown, and Arthur Gilman.

He began to work under Providence civil engineer William S. Haines, learning the business.

[6] Carpenter joined the American Institute of Architects in 1875 as a fellow, and was a founding member of the Rhode Island chapter the same year.

[6] Edmund Russell Willson was born on April 21, 1856,[8] in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, now part of Boston.

Edmund R. Willson attended Salem High School, graduating at the young age of 15 in 1871.

After his graduation, he found a position in the office of Peabody & Stearns, Boston's leading architects.

Not long after their arrival in Paris, Willson and Chamberlin both gained admission to the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, and both entered the atelier of Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer.

Recognizing this, in 1883 Alfred Stone and Charles E. Carpenter decided to admit him as a junior partner.

After Willson's death, however, the firm was renamed Stone, Carpenter & Sheldon, which it retained until its end in the 1920s.