Peter Morgan Pennoyer

FAIA Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) is a postnominal title or membership, designating an individual who has been named a fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Fellowship is bestowed by the institute on AIA-membe ...

(born on February 19, 1957) is an American

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

and the principal of Peter Pennoyer Architects, an architecture firm based in

New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ...

and with an office in Miami. Pennoyer, his four partners and his forty associates have an international practice in

traditional A tradition is a system of beliefs or behaviors (folk custom) passed down within a group of people or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past. A component of cultural expressions and folklore, common examp ...

and

classical architecture Classical architecture typically refers to architecture consciously derived from the principles of Ancient Greek architecture, Greek and Ancient Roman architecture, Roman architecture of classical antiquity, or more specifically, from ''De archit ...

, or

New Classical Architecture New Classical architecture, also known as New Classicism or Contemporary Classical architecture, is a Contemporary architecture, contemporary movement that builds upon the principles of Classical architecture. It is sometimes considered the mode ...

. Many of the firm's institutional and commercial projects involve historic buildings, and the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art has stated that the firm's strength is in "deftly fusing history and creative invention into timeless contemporary designs." The firm's projects have been featured in publications such as ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...

'', ''

Architectural Digest ''Architectural Digest'' (stylized in all caps) is an American monthly magazine founded in 1920. Its principal subjects are interior design and landscaping, rather than pure external architecture. The magazine is published by Condé Nast ...

'', ''

The Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' (''WSJ''), also referred to simply as the ''Journal,'' is an American newspaper based in New York City. The newspaper provides extensive coverage of news, especially business and finance. It operates on a subscriptio ...

'', ''

Elle Decor ''Elle'' (stylized in all caps) is a worldwide magazine of French origin that offers a mix of fashion and beauty content, and society and lifestyle. The title ''Elle'' means ''She'' in French. ''Elle'' is considered "one of the world's largest ...

'','' House & Garden'' and Galerie Magazine. In October 2010, the Vendome Press published ''Peter Pennoyer Architects: Apartments, Townhouses, Country Houses'', which featured twenty of the firm's projects, and in 2016, Vendome published ''A House in the Country'', which chronicled the process used by Pennoyer and his wife, interior designer Katie Ridder, to design their own house and garden in

Millbrook, New York Millbrook is a Administrative divisions of New York#Village, village in Dutchess County, New York, United States. Millbrook is located in the Hudson Valley, on the east side of the Hudson River, north of New York City. Millbrook is near the cent ...

. In 2021, the Vendome Press published ''Rowdy Meadow: House, Land, Art'', which focuses on a new Czech-cubist-inspired house set in an extensive sculpture park in Ohio, and in 2023, the Vendome Press published ''Peter Pennoyer Architects: City, Country'', which illustrates the firm's latest apartments, townhouses, and country houses, with interiors by leading designers.

Early life and education

Peter Pennoyer was born on February 19, 1957, in

, the son of Victoria (

née The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births registe ...

Parsons) Pennoyer (1928–2013), and

Robert Morgan Pennoyer Robert Morgan Pennoyer (April 9, 1925 – August 13, 2023) was an American lawyer and author who was a member of the Morgan family. Early life Pennoyer was born on April 9, 1925 at his grandfather's home on Madison Avenue. He was the son of Franc ...

(1925–2023). His father was a partner at Patterson Belknap, a former

Assistant U.S. Attorney An assistant United States attorney (AUSA) is an official career civil service position in the U.S. Department of Justice composed of lawyers working under the U.S. attorney of each U.S. federal judicial district. They represent the federal gov ...

for the

Southern District of New York The Southern District of New York is a federal judicial district that encompasses the counties of New York (Manhattan), Bronx, Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Orange, Dutchess, and Sullivan. Federal offices or agencies operating in the distri ...

, and a former Assistant to the

Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs In the United States, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs or ASD (ISA) is the principal advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (USD (P)) and the United States Secretary of Defense on international ...

. Pennoyer graduated from

St. Bernard's School St. Bernard's School is a private, all-male elementary school in the Carnegie Hill neighborhood of Manhattan's Upper East Side. It was founded in 1904 by John Card Jenkins, along with Francis Tabor.

in New York City and St. Paul's School in

Concord, New Hampshire Concord () is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Hampshire and the county seat, seat of Merrimack County, New Hampshire, Merrimack County. As of the 2020 United States census the population was 43,976, making it the List of municipalities ...

, 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 The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) is the architecture school of Columbia University, a private research university in New York City. It is also home to the Masters of Science program in Advanced Architect ...

in 1984. 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 Louis Stanton Auchincloss (; September 27, 1917 – January 26, 2010)Holcomb B. Noble and Charles McGrath''The New York Times''. Retrieved on January 27, 2010. was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a novel ...

). Pennoyer is the grandson of Frances (née Morgan) Pennoyer, and the lawyer Paul Geddes Pennoyer; a great-grandson of J.P. Morgan Jr.; and a great-great grandson of

J.P. Morgan JP may refer to: Arts and media * ''JP'' (album), 2001, by American singer Jesse Powell * ''Jp'' (magazine), an American Jeep magazine * '' Jönköpings-Posten'', a Swedish newspaper * Judas Priest, an English heavy metal band * ''Jurassic Pa ...

. Pennoyer's maternal grandfather, James R. Parsons, was a partner in Chubb & Son, and his great-grandfather

Hendon Chubb Hendon Chubb (March 19, 1874 – September 3, 1960) was an American insurance executive who established the Chubb Fellowship at Yale. Early life Chubb was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 19, 1874. He was the youngest son of Thomas Caldecot Ch ...

was a founding partner of Chubb & Son. His uncle was U.S. Naval Cross winner and lawyer,

Paul Pennoyer Jr. Paul Geddes Pennoyer Jr. (February 11, 1920 – January 7, 2010) was an American lawyer and Naval hero who was a member of the Morgan family. He is the grandson of J. P. Morgan Jr. Early life and education Pennoyer was born on February 11, 1 ...

Career

While in graduate school from 1981 to 1983, Pennoyer worked as a designer in the

Manhattan Manhattan ( ) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the County statistics of the United States#Smallest, larg ...

office of his Columbia professor,

Robert A. M. Stern Robert Arthur Morton Stern (born May 23, 1939) is an American architect, educator, and author. He is the founding partner of the architecture firm, Robert A. M. Stern Architects, also known as RAMSA. From 1998 to 2016, he was the Dean of the Y ...

. 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. One of his earliest projects was a retreat in the

Catskill Mountains The Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills, are a physiographic province and subrange of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York. As a cultural and geographic region, the Catskills are generally defined a ...

for his sister's father-in-law,

. Pennoyer is a trustee of

The Morgan Library & Museum The Morgan Library & Museum (originally known as the Pierpont Morgan Library and colloquially known the Morgan) is a museum and research library in New York City, New York, U.S. Completed in 1906 as the private library of the banker J. P. Morg ...

, and president of the Whiting Foundation, which sponsors the

Whiting Awards The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, ...

, 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 The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) is an international not-for-profit organization that promotes the study and preservation of the built environment worldwide. Based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, the Society's 3,500 members inc ...

. 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 New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

Published works

Pennoyer and historian Anne Walker have co-authored five monographs of American architectural history: ''The Architecture of

Delano & Aldrich Delano & Aldrich was an American Beaux-Arts architectural firm based in New York City. Many of its clients were among the wealthiest and most powerful families in the state. Founded in 1903, the firm operated as a partnership until 1935, when Al ...

''; ''The Architecture of

Warren & Wetmore Warren and Wetmore was an architecture firm based in New York City, a partnership established about 1889 by Whitney Warren (1864–1943) and Charles D. Wetmore (1866–1941). They had one of the most extensive practices of their time, and were e ...

''; ''The Architecture of

Grosvenor Atterbury Grosvenor Atterbury (July 7, 1869 in Detroit, MI – October 18, 1956 in Southampton, NY) was an American architect, urban planner and writer. He studied at Yale University, where he was an editor of campus humor magazine ''The Yale Record'' After ...

''; ''New York Transformed: The Architecture of

Cross & Cross Cross & Cross (1907–1942) was a New York City-based architectural firm founded by brothers John Walter Cross and Eliot Cross. History Cross & Cross was known as Old New York City Society's architectural firm of choice. John Cross (1878–1951) ...

''; and ''

Harrie T. Lindeberg Harrie Thomas Lindeberg (1879 – January 10, 1959) was an American architect, best known for designing country houses in the United States. Among academic eclectic architects Lindeberg found a niche as "the American Lutyens" by working in a vari ...

and the American Country House''. He and Walker also wrote the introduction to a reprint of Frank M. Snyder's ''Building Details''.

Recognition

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 Dutchess County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 295,911. The county seat is the city of Poughkeepsie. The county was created in 1683, one of New York's first twelve counties, and later o ...

(2012), 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), its Bulfinch Award (to Preserve and Advance the Classical Tradition in New England) for its design of a new classical house in Massachusetts (2017). In 2017, the College of Charleston awarded Pennoyer its

Albert Simons Albert Simons (1890 – 1980), had a sixty-year career as an architect and preservationist in Charleston, South Carolina, where he is known for his preservation work and architectural design. He played a key role in the Charleston Renaissance. ...

Medal of Excellence. In 2017, the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art gave the firm the Arthur Ross Award for architecture. Peter Pennoyer received the Pillar of New York Award from the

Preservation League of New York State The Preservation League of New York State (Preserve NYS) is a nonprofit organization which works to preserve historic structures in New York. Established in 1974, Preserve NYS supports preservation efforts through information on best practices, pr ...

in 2019. In 2024,

The University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac (known simply as Notre Dame; ; ND) is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. Founded in 1842 by members of the Congregation of Holy Cross, a Catholic religious order o ...

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.” Peter Pennoyer Architects has been on ''

''s AD100 List, a listing of outstanding talent in architecture and interior design since 2012. The firm is included in ''New York Spaces'' Top 50 Designers List, and in ''Ocean Home'' magazine's Top 50 Coastal Architects list. Pennoyer was elected to the College of Fellows of the

American Institute of Architects The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for architects in the United States. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C. AIA offers education, government advocacy, community redevelopment, and public outreach progr ...

in 2014, and to the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen in 2016.

Representative projects

Peter Pennoyer Architects' projects include the following: * Wolong Bay Development, Dalian, China * 151 East 78th Street, New York City * Classical Villas, The Peak, Hong Kong * The

Metropolitan Opera Club The Metropolitan Opera Club is a private social club within the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Founded in 1893 and incorporated in 1899, the club maintains its own dining room (designed by Angelo Donghia and later renovated by Peter P ...

, New York City *

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society (NYG&B or NYGBS) is a non-profit institution located at 36 West 44th Street in New York City. Founded in 1869, it is the second-oldest genealogical society in the United States, and the only stat ...

, New York City * The New York Stock Exchange Luncheon Club, New York City *Proposal for the Redevelopment of Hudson Rail Yards *

Historic Hudson Valley Historic Hudson Valley is a not-for-profit educational and historic preservation organization headquartered in Tarrytown, New York. The organization gives tours and hosts events at five historic properties in Westchester County, in the lower Hudso ...

Pocantico Hills, New York Pocantico Hills is a hamlet in the Westchester County town of Mount Pleasant, New York, United States. The Rockefeller family estate, anchored by Kykuit, the family seat built by John D. Rockefeller Sr., is located in Pocantico Hills, as is the ...

* David Webb, New York City Flagship Store * The Mark Hotel, New York City * Hodsoll Mckenzie,

London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...

Pop Shop The Pop Shop was a store owned by pop artist Keith Haring. Haring opened the first Pop Shop in New York City in 1986 (which closed in 2005) and later one in Tokyo (which closed in 1988). Haring viewed the Pop Shop as an extension of his work. It ...

Keith Haring Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the Graffiti in New York City, New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual l ...

, New York City *

The Factory The Factory was Andy Warhol's art studio in Manhattan, New York City, which had four locations between 1963 and 1987. The Factory became famous for its parties in the 1960s. It was the hip hangout spot for artists, musicians, celebrities, and ...

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (;''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''"Warhol" born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer. A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol ...

The Hotchkiss School The Hotchkiss School is a private college-preparatory day and boarding school in Lakeville, Connecticut. It educates approximately 600 students in grades 9–12, plus postgraduates. Founded in 1891, it was one of the first English-style board ...

, 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 * Moynihan Train Hall Clock *The Benson, 1045 Madison Avenue, New York City *

Guild Hall of East Hampton Guild Hall of East Hampton in the incorporated Village of East Hampton on Long Island's East End, is one of the United States' first multidisciplinary cultural institutions. Opened in 1931, it was designed by architect Aymar Embury II and inclu ...

Personal life

In 1988, Pennoyer married Katherine Lee "Katie" Ridder, the daughter of Constance Ridder, a lawyer, and Paul Anthony Ridder, a director of

Knight Ridder Knight Ridder was an American media company, specializing in newspaper and Internet publishing. It was bought by McClatchy on June 27, 2006, allowing the latter to become the second largest newspaper publisher in the United States at the time ...

, and the granddaughter of Bernard Ridder, the former chairman of Knight Ridder. They have three children: Jane, Anthony, and Virginia, and reside in New York City on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

References

External links

Peter Pennoyer ArchitectsPeter Pennoyer Amazon Author Page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pennoyer, Peter 1957 births Living people Morgan family St. Bernard's School alumni St. Paul's School (New Hampshire) alumni Columbia College (New York) alumni Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation alumni New Classical architects 20th-century American architects 21st-century American architects Ridder family