Percy Rivington Pyne House

Architect: McKim, Mead & White
Year: 1911
Style: Federal
City: Manhattan, NY

The Percy Rivington Pyne House is a neo-Federal townhouse at 680 Park Avenue, designed by McKim, Mead & White and built from 1909 to 1911 for Percy Rivington Pyne II, grandson of financier Moses Taylor. Its scale and materials set the character followed by the later houses along this Park Avenue block.

the building

Soviet Mission tenancy. From 1948 to 1964 the house was occupied by the Soviet Mission to the United Nations before later use by the Americas Society.

the style

Built in a neo-Federal idiom, the house established the architectural character followed by its Park Avenue neighbors, now forming one of the last intact ensembles on the avenue.

the architect

McKim, Mead & White, one of America's most historically important architecture firms, designed the house for Percy Rivington Pyne II.

significance

A New York City Landmark and National Register contributing property, the house was saved from destruction when Margaret Rockefeller Strong de Larraín acquired it in 1965 and gave it to the Americas Society, whose headquarters it remains.

nearby

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Park East Synagogue 0.1 mi · Moorish / Mudéjar · 1890
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Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House 0.2 mi · 1907
Central Presbyterian Church 0.2 mi · Gothic Revival · 1821
Manhattan House 0.2 mi · Mid-Century Modern · 1951

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