Electus D. Litchfield

Electus Darwin Litchfield, FAIA (1872–1952) was an American architect and town planner, practicing in New York City.

He worked at various firms in New York, including Carrère & Hastings and Lord & Hewlett, before establishing his own in 1926, designing a number of commercial buildings.

[2] "He was also an architect for the Red Hook slum clearance and housing project, assisted in reconstruction of Bellevue Hospital, and designed the Brooklyn Masonic Temple.

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

On Sept. 8 he won his fight when the Navy presented to him at St. Barnabas a certificate of restoration of Mr. Cox's commission authorized by the President and the Congress.