Chapel, United States Naval Academy

Ernest Flagg's architectural rendering presents the front elevation of the Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis, Maryland. This classical Beaux-Arts design centers on a monumental dome crowned with a spire, flanked by arched windows and columned porticos. Flagg's measured drawing—marked with scale notation and signed by the architect's New York office—exemplifies the precision draftsmanship required for major institutional commissions. The chapel's symmetrical composition and neoclassical vocabulary reflect early-twentieth-century American confidence in naval power and academic tradition. Flagg (1857–1947) was a leading Beaux-Arts practitioner whose buildings defined American institutional architecture of the era.