FLAGG, Ernest (1857-1947)
(biography in preparation)
(obituary New York Times, 11 April 1947, 25; obit. New York Herald Tribune, 11 April 1947; biog. & port. in the National Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1938, Vol. E, 239-40; biog. H. Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects, 1956, 211-12; biog. and list of works in the MacMillan Encyclopedia of Architects, 1982, vol. 2, 87-89). A full monograph on Flagg, written by Mardges Bacon, entitled Ernest Flagg: Beaux Arts Architect & Urban Reformer, was published in 1986. A complete issue devoted to the early work of Flagg appeared in Architectural Record [New York], xi, April 1902, p. 1 to 104, illus.
ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND, proposal for a new Provincial Court House, Duckworth Street, likely a competition entry, 1893 (Daily News [St. John's], 18 April 1903, 4, records of payment of $ 501.25 to Ernest Flagg for plans; copies of blueprints now held at the Provincial Archives, St. John's)
TOWN OF HAMPSTEAD, QUE., residence for Stanley Stanger, Queen Mary Road, near Belgrave Road, 1927 (C.H.G., v, Aug. 1928, 23, illus.)
MONTREAL, QUE., C.N.R. Sleeping Car Prototype, called “The Flagg Car”, a new model of railway sleeping car for the CNR, built at their shops in Montreal, 1928 (Montreal Daily Star, 17 Feb. 1928, 13, descrip.)
MONTREAL, QUE., James T. Stanger Building, St. James Street West, at the foot of Beaver Hall Hill, between Gauvin Street and McGill Street, a 19 storey office block, 1929 (C.R., xliii, 3 July 1929, 63; Gazette [Montreal], 9 July 1929, 5, detailed descrip.)