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From time to time a square has been opened here, a park there, a street cut through in one place or widened in another, but these improvements have been entirely local in their effect, and have failed to change the general appearance of the city. Even the greatest of all these changes, the laying out of Central Park, was unfortunate, to say the least, for it serves to aggravate one of the worst features of the original plan, viz., the failure to provide a central artery of communication worthy of the coming city.

Ernest Flagg

Ernest Flagg

Ernest Flagg

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Born: February 6, 1857

Died: April 10, 1947 (aged 90)

Bio: Ernest Flagg was a noted American architect in the Beaux-Arts style. He was also an advocate for urban reform and architecture's social responsibility.

Known for:

Singer Building
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Scribner Building
Dark Island Castle
Charles Scribner's Sons Building

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