1. Leopold Eidlitz was an American architect based in New York.
17 Facts About Leopold Eidlitz
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Leopold Eidlitz received his early technical training at the Prague Realschule and then continued his education at the Vienna Technical University.
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Leopold Eidlitz enrolled in its short-lived business school, not its engineering or architecture curricula.
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Leopold Eidlitz emigrated from Vienna to the United States in 1843 and settled in New York.
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Leopold Eidlitz spent three formative years in the office of Richard Upjohn.
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Leopold Eidlitz likely participated in his project of constructing Trinity Church at the head of Wall Street, which was under way.
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Leopold Eidlitz worked with the architect Cyrus Lazelle Warner, whose office was a few doors from that of Upjohn's.
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In 1846 Leopold Eidlitz formed a partnership with the German immigrant architect Karl Otto Blesch, who had trained in Munich with Friedrich von Gartner.
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Blesch designed the exterior, mixing Gothic and Romanesque styles, and Leopold Eidlitz designed the plain interior and the original openwork spires.
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Leopold Eidlitz designed the capitol's Assembly Chamber and its now dismantled vault.
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Leopold Eidlitz was a founding member of the American Institute of Architects in 1857.
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Leopold Eidlitz wrote numerous articles published in such journals as The Crayon in the 1850s and the American Architect and Building News beginning in the 1870s.
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Leopold Eidlitz published a major book The Nature and Function of Art, More Especially of Architecture, which proposed an organic theory of architecture that wedded German notions of art and science to American transcendentalist concerns.
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Leopold Eidlitz had worked with her father Cyrus Lazelle Warner.
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Leopold Eidlitz's mother was Elizabeth Wadland Adams, who, despite claims she made during her lifetime, was not descended from President John Adams.
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Leopold Eidlitz presented himself as simply German or Austrian and he Germanicized his parents' given names on American records.
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One of his daughters, Mari Imogene Leopold Eidlitz, was married in a Catholic ceremony in 1887 at St Anne's Church in New York.