Cross and Cross

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Cross and Cross (1907-1942) ^[1] was a New York City based architectural firm founded by brothers John Walter Cross and Eliot Cross.

[edit] History

Cross and Cross was a New York City based architectural firm. Founded in 1907 by brothers John Walter Cross (1878-1951) and Eliot Cross (1884-1949), the Firm was known as Old New York City Society's architectural firm of choice ^[2]. John Cross studied architecture at Columbia University and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and served as the creative half of the partnership, while Eliot Cross focused on the development side of the business, particularly through his role as Chairman of the Board of the real estate development firm of Webb and Knapp, which he organized in 1922. ^[3] The two firm's shared office space in The Knapp Building on Madison Avenue. ^[4]

[edit] Firm Commissions

1 East 42nd Street, New York, NY ^[5]
53 Park Place, New York, NY, ^[6]
123 East 53rd Street, (demolished 1953-1955 to build 399 Park Avenue, the new headquarters for the First National City Bank, today's Citigroup)
155 East 72nd Street, New York, NY, ^[7]
205 Church Street, New Haven, CT ^[8]
405 Park Avenue, New York, NY (12 story apartment building, completely modernized in 1956) ^[9]
720 Park Avenue, with Rosario Candela, New York, NY ^[10]
Ampico Building, 29 West 57th Street, New York, NY
Assisium School, 36 East 63rd Street, New York, NY (originally The Hanger Club) ^[11]
Bank of America International, 37-41 Broad Street, New York, NY (originally Lee-Higginson Bank) ^[12]
Bank of the Manhattan Company, Bayside, New York ^[13]
Bayberry Land, Southampton, New York (demolished) ^[14]
Central Hanover Building ^[15]
Chase Bank, 35 East 72nd Street, New York, NY (originally Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company branch)
Chase Bank East 57th Street, New York, NY (originally Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company branch) ^[16]
Church of Notre Dame, Columbia University, New York, NY ^[17]
City Bank-Farmers Trust Company Building, 20 Exchange Place, New York, NY ^[18]
Eglisa De Notre Dame, 40 Morningside Drive, New York, NY
Federal Office Building, 90 Church Street, New York, NY ^[19]
Field Mansion, Yorktown, NY, ^[20]
Franklin Towers, New York, NY ^[21]
General Electric Building, 570 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY ^[22]

General Electric Building from the southeast

Harriman Building, New York, NY [^[23] ^[24]
Hotel InterContinental, New York, NY ^[25]
The Hewitt School 45 East 75th Street, New York, NY
ILX Systems (Aetna) 151 William Street, New York, NY ^[26]
James McCutcheon & Co. store, 609 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY ^[27]
The Knapp Building, 383-385 Madison Avenue, New York, NY (demolished)
Leigh Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT, ^[28]
The Links Club, 36 East 62nd, New York, NY
Louis Spencer Morris and Emily Coster Morris House, 116 East 80th Street, New York, NY
Edward S. Moore Residence, Roslyn, New York
Museum of Non-Objective Painting, 24 East 54th Street, New York, NY
One Sutton Place South with Rosario Candela, New York, NY ^[29]
Park Plaza Apartments, Worcester, MA, ^[30]
Guaranty Trust Company of New York building at Place de la Concorde, Paris, France ^[31]
Postum Building, 250 Park Avenue, New York, NY ^[32]
Ernest Stillman House, 45 East 75th Street, New York, NY
Stone & Webster Building, New York, NY ^[33]
Tiffany's, 727 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY ^[34]
Warner Brothers Studio Store, 1 East 57th Street, New York, NY (originally New York Trust Company Building)
Wiley Building, New York, NY, ^[35]
George and Martha Whitney House 120 East 80th Street, New York, NY ^[36]
The Yorkgate, New York, NY, ^[37]