Ernest Flagg

Ernest Flagg ( born February 6, 1857 in Brooklyn, † April 10, 1947 in New York City ) was an American architect of the Beaux -Arts style.

Flagg was born in New York City borough of Brooklyn. He studied at the École des Beaux -Arts in Paris and began in 1891, back in his hometown, with his work as an architect. With his ideas on urban planning and to limit the height of the building, he made a significant contribution to the development of relevant laws at that time fast-growing New York.

Ernest Flagg was president of the New York Society of Beaux-Arts Architects for some time. His brother Charles Scribner II was a well-known publisher.

Works (selection)

  • Singer Building (built 1906-1908 ) in New York City, (1968 demolished)
  • Charles Scribner's Sons Building (built 1912-1913 ), New York, Manhattan
  • Scribner Building (built in 1893), New York, Manhattan
  • United States Naval Academy ( 1899 ), Annapolis, Maryland
  • St. Luke's Hospital and the Washington State Capitol in Olympia, Washington
  • Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  • The Towers, a castle-like country house in the Thousand Islands Region
  • Indian Neck Hall, estate of Frederick Gilbert Bourne, a former president of Singer
  • Clark 's Chapel in Pomfret (Connecticut)
  • Sheldon Library (now the entrance building), St Paul 's School, Concord, New Hampshire
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