Peter Pennoyer

Peter Pennoyer was born on February 19, 1957, in New York City, the son of Victoria (née Parsons) Pennoyer (1928–2013),{{cite news |title=PENNOYER, VICTORIA PARSONS |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage-9D01E1DD133AF935A35753C1A9659D8B63.html |access-date=10 November 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=October 3, 2013 |language=en}} and Robert Morgan Pennoyer (1925–2023).{{cite news |title=VIGTORIA PARSONS MARRIED IN ORANGE; Bride of Robert M. Pennoyer, Grandson of Late J. P. Morgan: Bishop Poweil Officiates . ' |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/06/13/96594442.pdf |access-date=10 November 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=June 13, 1948 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Primus VI |title=Soldiers, When Young |url=https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2016/09/soldiers-when-young |access-date=10 November 2018 |work=Harvard Magazine |date=9 August 2016 |language=en}} His father was a partner at Patterson Belknap, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and a former Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.{{cite web |title=Biography {{!}} Robert M. Pennoyer |url=https://www.pbwt.com/robert-m-pennoyer/ |website=www.pbwt.com |publisher=Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler |access-date=10 November 2018}}{{cite news |last1=Burnham |first1=Sophy |title=The Manhattan Arrangement of Art and Money |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q9sCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA41 |access-date=10 November 2018 |magazine=New York |date=8 December 1969 |language=en}} Pennoyer graduated from St. Bernard's School in New York City and St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Columbia College in 1981, and a Masters of Architecture degree from Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in 1984.{{cite news |last1=Loos |first1=Ted |title=A Classical Act |url=https://www.1stdibs.com/introspective-magazine/peter-pennoyer/ |access-date=10 November 2018 |work=1stdibs Introspective |date=January 19, 2015}} He is the youngest of four and his older siblings are Russell Pennoyer, Christina Lee Pennoyer, and Dr. Tracy Pennoyer (the wife of John Auchincloss, a son of author Louis Auchincloss).{{cite news |title=Dr. Pennoyer, a Psychologist, Is Wed To John W. Auchincloss 2d, a Lawyer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/10/style/dr-pennoyer-a-psychologist-is-wed-to-john-w-auchincloss-2d-a-lawyer.html |access-date=10 November 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=April 10, 1988 |language=en}}

Pennoyer is the grandson of Frances (née Morgan) Pennoyer,{{cite news |title=Frances Pennoyer, 92, J. P. Morgan's Child |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/12/obituaries/frances-pennoyer-92-j-p-morgan-s-child.html |access-date=10 November 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=March 12, 1989 |language=en}}{{cite news |first= Sidney C.|last= Schaer|title=Morgan Daughter Dies; Last surviving child was 92 |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/103338254.html?dids=103338254:103338254&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+14%2C+1989&author=By+Sidney+C.+Schaer&pub=Newsday+%28Combined+editions%29&desc=Morgan+Daughter+Dies+Last+surviving+child+was+92&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120725072202/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/newsday/access/103338254.html?dids=103338254:103338254&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+14%2C+1989&author=By+Sidney+C.+Schaer&pub=Newsday+%28Combined+editions%29&desc=Morgan+Daughter+Dies+Last+surviving+child+was+92&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 25, 2012 |quote= Mrs. Pennoyer, the mother of six, a grandmother of 28 and a great-grandmother of 31, lived in the English-Norman styled home on an estate called "Round Bush" in Locust Valley. Born into a family whose name was synonymous with international banking, immense wealth and philanthropy, she nevertheless lived a private life... |work=Newsday |date=March 14, 1989 |access-date=2009-10-30 }} and the lawyer Paul Geddes Pennoyer;{{cite news |title=Paul C. Pennoyer, 80, Lawyer. Active in Various Fields, Dies |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1971/07/01/79672718.pdf |access-date=10 November 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=July 1, 1971 |language=en}} a great-grandson of J.P. Morgan Jr.; and a great-great grandson of J.P. Morgan.{{cite news |last1=Leduff |first1=Charlie |title=Faded Glory on the Gold Coast; Glen Cove, Relic of the Gilded Age, Plans a Comeback |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/10/nyregion/faded-glory-on-the-gold-coast-glen-cove-relic-of-the-gilded-age-plans-a-comeback.html |access-date=10 November 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=February 10, 1999 |language=en}}{{cite news |title=Obituary: Jessie Snyder |url=https://www.greenwichsentinel.com/2018/05/21/obituary-jessie-snyder/ |access-date=10 November 2018 |work=Greenwich Sentinel |date=May 21, 2018}} Pennoyer's maternal grandfather, James R. Parsons, was a partner in Chubb & Son, and his great-grandfather Hendon Chubb was a founding partner of Chubb & Son. His uncle was U.S. Naval Cross winner and lawyer, Paul Pennoyer Jr.

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While in graduate school from 1981 to 1983, Pennoyer worked as a designer in the Manhattan office of his Columbia professor, Robert A. M. Stern. He established his own practice in 1984, where he was a principal in the firm Pennoyer Turino Architects P. C. until 1990, after which he formed Peter Pennoyer Architects.{{cite news |last1=Gray |first1=Christopher |title=Buildings That Lie About Their Age |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/realestate/buildings-that-lie-about-their-age.html |access-date=10 November 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=April 18, 2013 |language=en}} One of his earliest projects was a retreat in the Catskill Mountains for his sister's father-in-law, Louis Auchincloss.

Pennoyer is a trustee of The Morgan Library & Museum,{{cite web|url=http://www.themorgan.org/about/board|title=Board of Trustees|date=1 February 2015}} and president of the Whiting Foundation,{{cite web|url=http://www.whiting.org/foundation/people|title=People|website=www.whiting.org}} which sponsors the Whiting Awards, a literary awards program. He is a National Peer Reviewer of the U.S. General Services Administration, Washington D.C., and a lifetime member of the Society of Architectural Historians. He was chairman of the board of The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art from 2009 to 2013.

From 2011 to 2018, Pennoyer was an adjunct professor in the Department of Art History: Department of Urban Design and Architecture Studies at New York University.{{cite web|url=https://nyuarthistory.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/meet-the-urban-design-and-architecture-studies-adjunct-faculty/|title=Meet the Urban Design and Architecture Studies Adjunct Faculty|date=4 February 2013}}

Pennoyer and historian Anne Walker have co-authored five monographs of American architectural history:{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Peter-Pennoyer/e/B001ITYT6S|title=Amazon.com: Peter Pennoyer: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle|website=www.amazon.com}} The Architecture of Delano & Aldrich;{{cite book|url=http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=9664|title=The Architecture of Delano & Aldrich|publisher=W.W. Norton & Company|author=P. Pennoyer |author2=A. Walker |date=March 2003|isbn=978-0-393-73087-6}} The Architecture of Warren & Wetmore;{{cite book|url=http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=9779|title=The Architecture of Warren & Wetmore|publisher=W.W. Norton & Company|author=P. Pennoyer |author2=A. Walker |date=March 2006|isbn=978-0-393-73162-0}} The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury;{{cite book|url=http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=9853|title=The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury|publisher=W.W. Norton & Company|author=P. Pennoyer |author2=A. Walker |date=August 2009|isbn=978-0-393-73222-1}} New York Transformed: The Architecture of Cross & Cross;{{cite book|url=http://www.monacellipress.com/book/?isbn=9781580933803|title=New York Transformed: The Architecture of Cross & Cross|publisher=The Monacelli Press|author=P. Pennoyer |author2=A. Walker |date=2014}} and Harrie T. Lindeberg and the American Country House.{{cite web|url=http://www.monacellipress.com/book/?isbn=9781580934497|title=Harrie T. Lindeberg and the American Country House - The Monacelli Press|date=21 September 2018}} He and Walker also wrote the introduction to a reprint of Frank M. Snyder's Building Details.{{cite book|url=http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=9893|title=Building Details|publisher=W.W. Norton & Company|author=F. Snyder|date=August 2007|isbn=978-0-393-73245-0}}

The Institute for Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) gave Pennoyer's firm its Stanford White Award for the design of a house in Dutchess County, New York (2012),{{cite web|url=http://www.classicist.org/awards-and-prizes/stanford-white-awards/2012-swa/|title=Honors - Institute of Classical Architecture & Art|website=www.classicist.org}} its Stanford White Award, for the design of a new apartment building on Manhattan's Upper East Side and for a new house in Maine (2016),{{cite web|url=http://www.classicist.org/awards-and-prizes/stanford-white-awards/2016-swa/|title=Honors - Institute of Classical Architecture & Art|website=www.classicist.org}} its Bulfinch Award (to Preserve and Advance the Classical Tradition in New England) for its design of a new classical house in Massachusetts (2017).{{cite web|url=https://www.period-homes.com/features/bulfinch-awards-2017|title=The New England Chapter of the ICAA Announces the Winners of its Seventh Bulfinch Awards|date=14 April 2021 }}

In 2017, the College of Charleston awarded Pennoyer its Albert Simons Medal of Excellence.{{cite web|url=http://albertsimonsmedal.com/|title=Home - Albert Simons Medal of Excellence|website=Albert Simons Medal of Excellence}} In 2017, the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art gave the firm the Arthur Ross Award for architecture.{{Cite web |url=http://blog.classicist.org/?p=12493 |title=The ICAA Announces Winners of the 2017 Arthur Ross Awards for Excellence in the Classical Tradition | Classicist Blog |access-date=2017-08-29 |archive-date=2017-08-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830004407/http://blog.classicist.org/?p=12493 }} Peter Pennoyer received the Pillar of New York Award from the Preservation League of New York State in 2019.{{cite web|url=http://www.preservenys.org/past-pillar-honorees|title=Pillar Award Honorees}} In 2024, The University of Notre Dame honored Pennoyer with the Richard R. Driehaus Prize, an annual award established in 2003 celebrating “a living architect whose work embodies the highest ideals of traditional and classical architecture in contemporary society, and creates a positive cultural, environmental, and artistic impact.” {{cite web|url=http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/16792-peter-pennoyer-to-receive-2024-driehaus-prize|title=Peter Pennoyer to Receive 2024 Driehaus Prize}}

Peter Pennoyer Architects has been on Architectural Digest{{'}}s AD100 List,{{cite web|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/ad100-peter-pennoyer-architects|title=2023 AD100: Peter Pennoyer Architects - Architectural Digest|date=29 November 2022}} a listing of outstanding talent in architecture and interior design since 2012. The firm is included in New York Spaces Top 50 Designers List,{{cite web|url=https://www.newyorkspaces.com/top50.cfm?year=2016&id=272|title=Top 50 - Peter Pennoyer Architects (New York Spaces)|website=www.newyorkspaces.com|date=25 March 2020}} and in Ocean Home magazine's Top 50 Coastal Architects list.{{cite web|url=http://www.oceanhomemag.com/October-November-2016/top-50-coastal-architects-2016/|title=Top 50 Coastal Architects 2016 - Ocean Home - October-November 2016|website=www.oceanhomemag.com|date=29 August 2016}}

Pennoyer was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects in 2014,{{cite web|url=https://www.bdcnetwork.com/meet-new-fellows-aia-elevates-143-college-fellows|title=Meet the new Fellows: AIA elevates 143 to College of Fellows|date=7 February 2014}} and to the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen in 2016.{{cite web|url=https://generalsociety.org/?page_id=1738|title=2016 Craftsmanship Honoree, Peter Pennoyer, FAIA, Focuses on Classical Designs – The General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen of the City of New York|website=generalsociety.org}}

Peter Pennoyer Architects' projects include the following:

• Wolong Bay Development, Dalian, China{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-chinese-citys-parisian-love-affair-in-home-design-1394753126|title=A Chinese City's Parisian Love Affair|first=Alyssa|last=Abkowitz|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=13 March 2014|via=www.wsj.com}}
• 151 East 78th Street, New York City{{cite web|url=https://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/a-neoclassical-high-rise-will-give-lexington-a-lift/|title=Peter Pennoyer's high rise to boost nabe}}
• Classical Villas, The Peak, Hong Kong
• The Metropolitan Opera Club, New York City
• New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York City
• The New York Stock Exchange Luncheon Club, New York City
• Proposal for the Redevelopment of Hudson Rail Yards {{cite web|url=https://www.city-journal.org/article/reimagining-the-far-west-side|title=Reimagining the Far West Side|date=September 2004}}
• Historic Hudson Valley, Pocantico Hills, New York
• David Webb, New York City Flagship Store{{Cite web|url=https://quintessenceblog.com/welcome-back-david-webb/|title = Welcome Back David Webb|date = 5 July 2011}}
• The Mark Hotel, New York City
• Hodsoll Mckenzie, London
• Pop Shop, Keith Haring, New York City
• The Factory, Andy Warhol
• The Hotchkiss School, Paul Nitze Center for Global Understanding and Independent Thinking, Connecticut
• Oakley Farm, Virginia
• Diamond A Ranch, New Mexico
• Counter Proposal for the New York Public Library {{cite web|url=https://www.witoldrybczynski.com/architecture/digging-deep/|title=Digging Deep|date= 4 September 2014}}
• Moynihan Train Hall Clock{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/arts/design/penn-station-art-moynihan.html|title = Let There be Light, and Art, in the Moynihan Train Hall|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 30 December 2020|last1 = Searcey|first1 = Dionne}}
• The Benson, 1045 Madison Avenue, New York City {{Cite web|url=https://streeteasy.com/building/the-benson|title = Building: The Benson}}
• Guild Hall of East Hampton{{Cite news|url=https://www.guildhall.org/about/capitalcampaign/|title = CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT}}

In 1988, Pennoyer married Katherine Lee "Katie" Ridder,{{cite news |title=Miss Ridder, Editor, to Wed Peter M. Pennoyer, Architect |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/12/style/miss-ridder-editor-to-wed-peter-m-pennoyer-architect.html |access-date=10 November 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=June 12, 1988 |language=en}} the daughter of Constance Ridder, a lawyer, and Paul Anthony Ridder, a director of Knight Ridder, and the granddaughter of Bernard Ridder, the former chairman of Knight Ridder.{{cite news |title=Katie Ridder, Editor, Is Wed |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/25/style/katie-ridder-editor-is-wed.html |access-date=10 November 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=September 25, 1988 |language=en}} They have three children: Jane, Anthony, and Virginia, and reside in New York City on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

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• [https://www.amazon.com/Peter-Pennoyer/e/B001ITYT6S Peter Pennoyer Amazon Author Page]

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