Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz

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Cyrus Lazelle Warner Eidlitz (1853, New York - 1921, New York), son of the architect Leopold Eidlitz, was a New York architect best known for designing One Times Square, the former 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 precursor to the current Buffalo & Erie County Public Library in Lafayette Square, 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. Eidlitz's other works include his 1898 creation for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York located at 42 West 44th Street in New York City that exists to this day with its original client still occupying it.

He also designed, with others, the Bell Laboratories Building (Manhattan), a National Historic Landmark, and the First National Bank on West Commerce street.