Marc Eidlitz
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Marc Eidlitz was a builder active in New York City
, where he was prominent in the construction industry, in partnership with his son.
Marc was born Markus to a Jewish family in Prague
, Bohemia
. He emigrated to the United States
in 1846 with his mother Judith Eidlitz after the death of his father Abraham. Having served a four-years apprenticeship, he set up in business for himself in 1852, the year of his marriage.
Through his influence, the Masons Builders' Association of New York played a major role in founding the National Association of Builders. In New York he was President of the Building Trades' Club and of the Germanic Savings Bank.
Eidlitz made his home at 123 East 72nd Street, where he died. He had four sons and a daughter. His brother Leopold Eidlitz
was a well-known architect, as was Leopold's son, Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz
.
New York City
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, where he was prominent in the construction industry, in partnership with his son.
Marc was born Markus to a Jewish family in Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
, Bohemia
Bohemia
Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands. It is located in the contemporary Czech Republic with its capital in Prague...
. He emigrated to the United States
United States
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in 1846 with his mother Judith Eidlitz after the death of his father Abraham. Having served a four-years apprenticeship, he set up in business for himself in 1852, the year of his marriage.
Through his influence, the Masons Builders' Association of New York played a major role in founding the National Association of Builders. In New York he was President of the Building Trades' Club and of the Germanic Savings Bank.
Eidlitz made his home at 123 East 72nd Street, where he died. He had four sons and a daughter. His brother Leopold Eidlitz
Leopold Eidlitz
Leopold Eidlitz was a prominent New York architect best known for his work on the New York State Capitol , as well as "Iranistan" , P. T. Barnum's house in Bridgeport, Connecticut; St. Peter's Church, on Westchester Avenue at St...
was a well-known architect, as was Leopold's son, Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz
Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz
Cyrus Lazelle Warner Eidlitz was a New York architect best known for designing One Times Square, the former New York Times Building on Times Square.-Early life and education:Cyrus Lazelle Warner Eidlitz was born in New York...
.
Selected commercial commissions
The following structures erected by Eidlitz were all in New York City, unless otherwise identified.- A mission on 20th Street, commissioned by William ColgateWilliam ColgateWilliam Colgate was an American manufacturer who founded what became the Colgate toothpaste company in 1806.- History :...
- Broadway TabernacleBroadway United Church of ChristBroadway United Church of Christ is a Congregationalist Church at Broadway and 93rd Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.- Finney's Broadway Tabernacle :...
(1857–58) - Lord and Taylor Building, Broadway and Grand Street
- The German Hospital (now Lenox Hill HospitalLenox Hill HospitalLenox Hill Hospital, on Manhattan's Upper East Side in New York City, is a 652-bed, acute care hospital and a major teaching affiliate of New York University Medical Center. Founded in 1857 as the German Dispensary, today's 10-building Lenox Hill Hospital complex has occupied its present site since...
at another site) - Saint Vincent's Hospital
- Home of the Sisters of Bon Secours
- Church of the Incarnation, Madison Avenue and 35th Street
- Temple Emanu-ElTemple Emanu-ElTemple Emanu-El of New York was the first Reform Jewish congregation in New York City and, because of its size and prominence, has served as a flagship congregation in the Reform branch of Judaism since its founding in 1845. Its landmark Romanesque Revival building on Fifth Avenue is widely...
, former building at Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street - St. George's clergy house, 16th Street
- Astor LibraryAstor LibraryThe Astor Library was a free public library developed primarily through the collaboration of New York merchant John Jacob Astor and New England educator and bibliographer Joseph Cogswell. It was primarily meant as a research library, and its books did not circulate...
- Steinway HallSteinway HallSteinway Hall is the name of buildings housing concert halls, showrooms and sales departments for Steinway & Sons pianos. The first Steinway Hall was opened 1866 in New York City. Today, Steinway Halls and Steinway-Häuser are located in world cities such as New York City, London, Hamburg, Berlin,...
- Gallatin Bank
- Metropolitan Opera HouseMetropolitan Opera House (39th St)The Metropolitan Opera House was an opera house located at 1411 Broadway in New York City. Opened in 1883 and demolished in 1967, it was the first home of the Metropolitan Opera Company.-History:...
(J. Cleaveland CadyJ. Cleaveland CadyJ Cleaveland Cady was a New York-based architect whose most familiar surviving building is the south range of the American Museum of Natural History on New York's Upper West Side...
, architect, 1883) - Seamen's Savings Bank
- Eagle Fire Insurance Company
- Schermerhorn Building, 376 Lafayette Street (Henry J.Hardenbergh, architect, 1889)
- Astor Building
- Eden Musée
- Western Electric Building
- Lancashire Fire Insurance Company
- Empire BuildingEmpire BuildingThe Empire Building at 71 Broadway, Manhattan, New York City is a 21 story steel framed curtain-wall skyscraper designed by Kimball & Thompson and built by Marc Eidlitz & Son in 1895. It is one of the earliest skyscrapers built on pneumatic caissons and one of the oldest still standing today. It...
, Broadway and Rector Street