Leopold Eidlitz

Leopold Eidlitz (March 10, 1823, – March 22, 1908) was an American architect of Czech-Jewish origin. He was based in the New York state. He is best known for his work on the New York State Capitol (Albany, New York, 1876–1881), as well as for major 19th-century commissions including "Iranistan" (1848), P. T. Barnum's house in Bridgeport, Connecticut; the Second Congregational Church of Greenwich (1856); St. Peter’s Church in the Bronx (1853); the Brooklyn Academy of Music (1861, destroyed by fire in 1903); the former Temple Emanu-El (1866–68, destroyed 1927); the Broadway Tabernacle (1859, demolished c. 1907); the completion of the Tweed Courthouse (1876–81); and the West-Park Presbyterian Chapel on West 86th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.