Flagg-Coburn House, 722 East Merrimack Street

1926

National Register of Historic Places (5/15/1986)

The Flagg-Coburn House was designed by prominent New York architect Ernest Flagg for Frederick Coburn, a Lowell-born historian and patron of the arts.  The house was built according to Flagg’s principles for inexpensive house construction as illustrated by the symmetry and balance of the design and practicality of room arrangement.  Flagg was responsible for designing many residential and commercial buildings in New York as well as a new campus for the Naval Academy in Annapolis.  This house was Flagg’s first in New England and reflects his concern for low-cost house construction with its then-unique modular method of stone and concrete construction.