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Cyrus Lazelle Warner Eidlitz died on October 5, 1921. Mr. Eidlitz was an American architect best known for designing One Times Square, the former New York Times Building on Times Square. He was founder of the architecture firm presently known as HLW International, one of the oldest architecture firms in the U. S. Mr. Eidlitz was born in New York City—the son of Lazelle Warner and influential New York architect Leopold Eidlitz, one of the founders of the American Institute of Architects. The young Eidlitz was educated in New York, Geneva, Switzerland and Stuttgart, where he studied architecture at the Polytechnic Institute. Eidlitz began his career working for his father. In 1903, he formed Eidlitz & McKenzie with Andrew McKenzie, who had been a construction supervisor and engineer for his father's firm. Eidlitz & McKenzie worked primarily on telephone buildings, but their best known design was the New York Times Building. Their design used their expertise in connecting buildings to subterranean infrastructure. The building, the second-tallest in the city at the time, incorporated a subway stop into its basement levels. Times Square was named for the building. Eidlitz also designed the Bell Laboratories Building in Manhattan, the Dearborn Station in Chicago (1885) , and the Buffalo Library (1885-1887). Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz is buried in section 2 in Forest Lawn.