Leopold Eidlitz

Leopold Eidlitz 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, 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 ; the former Temple Emanu-El ; the Broadway Tabernacle ; the completion of the Tweed Courthouse (1876–81); and the West-Park Presbyterian Chapel on West 86th Street and Amsterdam Avenue.