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148: 332: 188: 223:, and Palmer and Hornbostel. During this period he developed a keen interest in the architecture of small country houses, publishing several books and pamphlets on the subject. In 1905, Embury won both the first and second prize in a design contest sponsored by the Garden City Company for a modest country house in Garden City, Long Island. This gave him visibility as a "society architect"; he acquired a reputation as a builder of country houses for the upper middle class and received many further commissions for such houses in the years surrounding 436: 248: 44: 370:
In the following years, Embury was chief or consulting architect in numerous projects in the New York City area. Exact figures are not available, but it is possible that Embury supervised the design of over six hundred public projects. Surviving examples include zoos such as the
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in 1900 with a degree in civil engineering and further received a Masters of Science degree in 1901. Following graduate studies, Embury taught architecture at Princeton while also working for various firms in New York City, including
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By the late 1920s, Embury was well-known and had received a wide range of commissions all over the east coast of the United States, entailing college buildings and social clubs in addition to residences. He designed the Players and
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He remained active throughout the 1950s, turning over his firm to his son, Edward Coe Embury, in 1956. Remaining active as a consulting architect, Embury served on the architectural advisory committee for the old
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Daniel Elezer Pomeroy House, completed about 1915 on Beech Road, Englewood, New Jersey; photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston in 1918. Aymar Embury II, architect, Ruth Bramley Dean, landscape design.
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as sole commissioner of a newly unified Department of Parks for New York City, commencing a seven-year period of construction and renovation of city parks. Embury, along with landscape architect
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A widower in 1932, he married Josephine Bound in 1934, which ended in divorce. He was survived by his fourth wife, Jane Schabbehar. From the 1930s on, Embury maintained Manhattan and
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Embury was born in New York City to Aymar Embury and Fannie Miller Bates. Married four times, his first union was with Dorothy Coe in 1904. They later divorced, and he married
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In 1937, Embury was commissioned by the Ladies Home Journal to design a Mount Vernon replica house. The plans were published in the October 1937 issue.
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Church, possibly early scheme for Winnetka (Ill.) Congregational Church [graphic] : perspective rendering, ca. 1936
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Day, Frank Miles; Howe, Samuel; Close, Bernard Wells; Sexton, Randolph Williams; Coffin, Lewis Augustus (1915).
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during the marriage. The two worked out of the same office but had separate shingles for their businesses.
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where he helped establish a unit of eight professional artists to document the activities of the
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in the latter's various city and state capacities, especially, early on, in Moses’ capacity as
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from the 1930s through to the 1950s. In this period, Embury frequently worked with
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for Princeton University after the previous gymnasium was destroyed in a fire.
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Edward Coe Embury, Carl Richard Embury, Peter Aymar Embury, Mrs. Hugh Hack
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Barnes & Noble Complete Illustrated Map and Guidebook to Central Park
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Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
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Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University
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National Register of Historic Places – Nomination and Inventory
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Stern, Robert A. M.; Mellins, Thomas; Fishman, David (1995).
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New York Landmarks Preservation Commission (June 20, 2006).
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Former Josephine Bound is the Fiancee of Richard Millett
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in France. During this time, Capt. Embury designed the
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Dorothy Coe, Ruth Dean, Josephine Bound, Jane Schabbehar
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patio, houses resident model sailboats as well as the
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In 1930 he was appointed consulting architect by the
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The World of Tomorrow The 1939 New York World's Fair
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Cynthia de Miranda and Jennifer Martin (July 2009).
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residences, and was active in East Hampton society.
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Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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Index

Aymar Embury

New York City
Southampton
Princeton University
City of New York
Robert Moses
New York City Parks Commissioner

Ruth Dean
landscape designer
Grey Gardens
East Hampton
Long Island

James Boyd House
Southern Pines, North Carolina
National Register of Historic Places
Princeton University
Cass Gilbert
George B. Post
Howells & Stokes
World War I
James Boyd House
Southern Pines, North Carolina
National Register of Historic Places

University Club of Washington, DC
World War I
United States Army Corps of Engineers

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