Education
Born in New York City, Litchfield graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1889 and Stevens Institute of Technology in 1892.
Born in New York City, Litchfield graduated from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute in 1889 and Stevens Institute of Technology in 1892.
His firm, Electus Doctorate. Litchfield, established in 1926, practiced at 80 Fifth Avenue until he disestablished it in 1950. 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. "He was a devotee of municipal beautification." He was one of the main architects and town planners of Yorkship Village, a World War I industrial town of 2,000 homes near the shipyard in Camden, New Jersey.
"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."
Outside of New York, Litchfield designed "many public and commercial buildings and monuments, including the Denver post office and courthouse.
The public library in Saint Paul. The National Armory in Washington, and a monument to the Lewis and Clark expedition at Astoria, Oregon" He disestablished his firm in 1950.
He designed the Franklin Pierce Tate House (1928) at Morganton, North Carolina. In the 1930s, as president of the Municipal Art Society, he fought a proposal to renovate Central Park with numerous baseball fields.
"Mr. Litchfield had come into the news as the grandson of William South. Cox, a naval lieutenant in the War of 1812, whose commission had been revoked by court-martial in 1814.
"Lieutenant Cox had helped carry the dying Captain James Lawrence below decks of the frigate Chesapeake during a battle with the British at Boston Harbor. As the result of leaving the scene of the fighting while senior uninjured officer, Mr.
Cox was demoted.
"Foreign forty years, Mr. Litchfield sought to have the Navy remove the stigma of that decision. He was a lifetime New Yorker, residing at 171 East Seventy-third Street.
He died aged 80 at Saint Barnabas Hospital (Bronx, New York).