Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz

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Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz (1853, New York - 1921, New York) (Cyrus Lazelle Warner Eidlitz), son of the architect Leopold Eidlitz, was a New York architect best known for designing One Times Square, the New York Times Building on Times Square. Born in New York and educated there and in Stuttgart, Eidlitz began his career working for his father. His earliest Gothic and Romanesque Revival designs, including Dearborn Station in Chicago and the Buffalo Public Library, show his father's influence. By the turn of the century, he embraced the Beaux-Arts and his work became more conventional. With Andrew McKenzie he formed one of the first architecture firms that put architects and engineers on equal footing. Eidlitz and McKenzie worked primarily on telephone buildings, a new building type in the period. The Eidlitz and McKenzie firm later became Vorhees, Gmelin, and Walker (of which Ralph Walker was a principal) and its successor firm is today's HLW.