Electus D. Litchfield

Electus Darwin Litchfield, FAIA (1872–1952) was an American architect and town planner, practicing in New York City. His firm, Electus D. Litchfield, established in 1926, practiced at 80 Fifth Avenue until he disestablished it in 1950.

Career

Born in New York City on April 25, 1872, Litchfield graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1889 and Stevens Institute of Technology in 1892. He married Elizabeth B. Rodman on October 6, 1906, and they had two children.

Organization membership In the 1930s, as president of the Municipal Art Society, he fought a proposal to renovate Central Park with numerous baseball fields.

He was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, member of the Architectural League of New York, New York Fine Arts Federation, the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, and Building Revision Commission (1906–1907), a former director of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, a founder of the New York Building Congress, and a "former governor of the Society of Colonial Wars of New York, and a member of the General Society of Colonial Wars, the City Club of New York and The Pilgrims."

Rehabilitation of Lieutenant William S. Cox

Death and legacy Litchfield was a lifetime New Yorker, residing at 171 East Seventy-third Street. He died aged 80 at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx on November 27, 1952. He was survived by his widow Elizabeth, daughter Mrs. Elizabeth Lamble of Sarasota, Florida, and son, Burnham Litchfield of Edgartown, Massachusetts.