Architect
Elite residential and institutional Manhattan with occasional flashes of commercial drama.
Cross & Cross designed commercial, residential, and religious buildings. Compare the General Electric Building, City Bank-Farmers Trust Company Building, and Church of Notre Dame to explore that variety.
6 building histories
Residential · 1922-23
116 East 80th Street, New York, NY
This residence of elegant simplicity designed in the Federal Style is four stories high, with an English basement. It is built of red brick laid in Flemish bond. The rather austere character of the building is soon...
Read the storyReligious · 1909-10
405 West 114th Street, New York, NY
The Church of Notre Dame is a magnificent stone structure designed in the elegant French neoclassic style of the early Nineteenth Century, The architects' refined sense of scale has skillfully imposed on this...
Read the storyCommercial · 1930-31
20 Exchange Place, New York, NY
One of the most prominent features of the Lower Manhattan skyline, the fifty-nine-story City Bank-Farmers Trust tower is among New York City's tallest skyscrapers. Designed by the architectural firm of Cross & Cross in...
Read the storyResidential · 1929-30
120 East 80th Street, New York, NY
The formal dignity of the Federal Style is evident in the character of the Twentieth Century town house. The virtues of the style are found in its excellent proportions, the refinement of its details, the quality of...
Read the storyReligious · 1913-14
409 West 114th Street, New York, NY
The Rectory of Notre Dame is a handsome three story building of gray brick and stone designed as a modified version of a Sixteenth Century palazzo. It has a wide front facade but comparatively little depth in order to...
Read the storyCommercial · 1929-31
570 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
The General Electric Building, constructed in 1929-31 to create a highly visible image for the fledgling RCA Corporation, has a significant place in the history of architecture in New York City. Designed by the firm of...
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