Cutter was a staff architect for the New York Building Plan Company from 1886 to 1892,[8] designing plans for Colonial architecture and Shingle architecture homes.[9] He authored their pattern book entitled The New York Building Plan Co. Illustrated Catalogue of Examples of Buildings in 1887.[8] His residential designs in the Shingle Style were published in the Inland Architect (Chicago) in 1893 and 1894. By 1909 Cutter had left New York and opened an office in New Jersey.[4][10]
With Alex R. Esty, he produced an unexecuted Victorian Gothic architecture design for the Library of Congress.[1] His work appears in The Architectural Sketch Book during the 1870s as a delineator for Esty and others and as an architect.[1] He moved to New York to work for Leopold Eidlitz and others.[1] He designed a Japanese style room in the house of K. G. MarquandonMadison Avenue and 60th Street in New York city.[11] also credited as an Anglo Japanese style room for Henry G. Marquand.[12] His office seems to have been at 160 Broadway in New York City.[12] He authored a plan for fireproofing structures at low cost that came in for criticism.[13]
The Church of the Transfiguration is made of spruce logs and was the area's first church. It is a small, one-story, gable-roofed building with a cross like plan on a high fieldstone foundation with a central belfry at the west end.[15] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
Saint John's Episcopal Church (Ocean Springs, Mississippi) (1892) on the NW corner of Rayburn and Porter Avenue[16] "based on the design of the Church of the Ascension in Rockville Center, Long Island, New York, by Manly N. Cutter, a New York architect, which was published in The Churchman (July 11, 1891) The plans were prepared by the Rev. Nelson Ayers"
Mott Haven engine company and firehouse (proposed), a three-story $24,000 firehouse at 898 (later re-numbered 618) East 138th Street near Cypress Avenue in 1899 by architect Manly N. Cutter, Deputy Building Superintendent of the Fire Department, but it was not built.[19]
Fireplace in House of H. L. Einstein, Esq. at 44 West 53rd St. New York City [20]
Residence for W. Wilson in New York City (plan)[21]
Designs for Chancel Furniture, St. John's in the Wilderness, Pennsylvania [22]
^(C.R., xxvii, 23 July 1913, 72; Medicine Hat News, 21 June 1913; 19 March 1914
^M.B.V. Byrne, From Buffalo to the Cross - History of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Calgary, 1973, 285-6, illus.
^Barry Magrill, "Pouring Ecclesiastical Tradition into A Modern Mould: Reinforced Concrete Churches in Canada" in Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada, xxxvii, Spring 2012, 3-15, illus
^ abH.R. Hitchcock, American Architectural Books, 1962, Item 308
The New York Building Plan Co.'s Illustrated Catalogue of Examples of Buildings: Their Exterior and Interior, Prepared Under the Supervision of Manly N. Cutter New York Building Plan Company, Manly N. Cutter Rand Avery Company, 1887 80 pages
Turn-of-the-Century House Designs: With Floor Plans, Elevations and Interior Details of 24 Residences (Dover Architecture)
