Ernest Flagg

At 187 meters and 47 floors, the Singer Building designed by Ernest Flagg was the tallest building in the world for a short time until the Metropolitan Life Tower opened in 1909 .

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

Life

Flagg was born in the Brooklyn borough of New York . He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and began working as an architect in 1891, back in his hometown. With his ideas for urban planning and for restricting the height of buildings, he made a significant contribution to the development of relevant laws in New York, which was rapidly growing at the time.

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

Works (selection)

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

literature

• Mardges Bacon, Ernest Flagg: Beaux-Arts Architect and Urban Reformer, MIT Press (1986)
• Paul Malo, "Boldt Castle," Laurentian Press (2001)
• Paul Malo, "Fools' Paradise," Laurentian Press (2003)

Web links

Commons : Ernest Flagg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ernest Flagg's urban planning (English)
• Ernest Flagg. In: Structurae