Aymar Embury II
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| Born | June 15, 1880 New York City, United States |
| Died | November 15, 1966 Southampton, Long Island, New York |
| Education | Princeton University |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Spouse(s) | Dorothy Coe, Ruth Dean, Josephine Bound, Jane Schabbehar |
| Children | Edward Coe Embury, Carl Richard Embury, Peter Aymar Embury, Mrs. Hugh Hack |
| Parent(s) | Aymar Embury, Fannie Miller Bates |
Aymar Embury II (June 15, 1880 – November 15, 1966) was an American architect. He is best known for commissions from the City of New York from the 1930s through to the 1950s. In this period, Embury frequently worked with Robert Moses in the latter's various city and state capacities, especially, early on, in Moses capacity of Parks Commissioner. Many surviving examples of Embury's work are zoos, swimming pools, playgrounds and other recreational structures in New York City parks.
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. However, they later divorced and he married Ruth Dean. Dean was a famous landscape designer who designed Grey Gardens during the marriage. The two worked out of the same office but had separate shingles for their businesses.
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 East Hampton, Long Island residences, and was active in East Hampton society.
Aymar Embury graduated from Princeton University 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 Cass Gilbert, George B. Post, Howells & Stokes, 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 World War I. He designed the James Boyd House, also known as Weymouth, at Southern Pines, North Carolina, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
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