Ernest Flagg

Ernest Flagg (February 6, 1857 – April 10, 1947) was a noted American architect in the Beaux-Arts style. He was also an advocate for urban reform and architecture's social responsibility. Flagg was born in Brooklyn, New York, and left school at 15 to work as an office boy on Wall Street. After working with his father and brothers in real estate for a few years, he designed duplex apartment plans in 1880 with the architect Philip Gengembre Hubert, for the co-operative apartment buildings Hubert was known for. Cornelius Vanderbilt II, Flagg’s cousin through his marriage to Alice Claypoole Gwynne, was impressed by Flagg’s work and sent him to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1889–1891, under his patronage. In 1891, Flagg...