“Harmony…. it is all embracing and should reign throughout—harmony in purpose, harmony in dimensions, harmony in form and harmony in color. In good design discord can have no place…. all may unite to form a complete, harmonious, and well-rounded composition…”

—  Ernest Flagg

Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

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American architect 1857–1947

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