Background
Flagg, Ernest was born on February 6, 1857 in Brooklyn. The son of Review Jared B. and Louisa (Hart) Flagg.
Flagg, Ernest was born on February 6, 1857 in Brooklyn. The son of Review Jared B. and Louisa (Hart) Flagg.
At the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris Ernest Flagg completed a course of study under Blondel, and was graduated in 1888.
Following his return to New York Mr. Flagg established practice in 1891 and continued to maintain an office in the city until 1940. One of his first important works were the new St. Luke’s Hospital, Amsterdam Ave. and 113th Street, a commission won against eighty contestants. Early in the century he designed the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. followed by later units which form an impressive ensemble, an outstanding achievement which brought him wide recognition. Other buildings of note planned and completed under Mr. Flagg s direction include the forty-one story Singer Office Building, an early skyscraper on lower Broadway completed in 1908; the Corcoran Art Gallery at Washington, D. C., an earlier work, opened in 1897 Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Building, Hartford, Conn.; Bourne Building, New York; the Scribner Building on Fifth Avenue below 50th Street, and the Scribner Printing Plant in the 'thirties; the Automobile Club of America in the fifties west of Broadway, and the Sheldon Library at St. Paul’s School, Concord, N. H.
Mr. Flagg also designed several distinctive urban residences, among them the Charles Scribner home at 9 East 66th Street (still standing); a home for Mrs. Gouveneur Morris on Park Avenue at 85th Street; the Fulton Cutting residence, Madison Avenue and 62nd Street; and the Oliver Jennings house on 72nd Street near Fifth Avenue. In contrast to these fine homes he also planned a number of model tenements, and was architect of the Mills Hotels in New York and other cities. For low salaried white collar workers he designed and built in 1933 the 560-family Flagg Court Apartments in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn, one of the largest of such buildings in greater New York; also built the first co-operative apartment house in Manhattan at Madison Avenue and 28th Street. In addition to his professional activities Mr. Flagg was interested in civic affairs, particularly New York's traffic problem and City Planning.
Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md
(an outstanding achievement which brought him wide recogni...)
new St. Luke’s Hospital, Amsterdam Ave.and 113th Street
Ernest Flagg was married to Margaret Elizabeth Bonnell.