page_title: Aymar Embury II
section_title: Military career
hierarchical_section_title: Aymar Embury II / Early professional career / Military career
caption_attribution_description: English: The University Club located at 1135 16th Street, N.W., in downtown Washington, D.C. Built in 1920 as the Racquet Club of Washington, the Colonial Revival clubhouse is designated as a contributing property to the Sixteenth Street Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
context_page_description: Aymar Embury II 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 as New York City Parks Commissioner. Many surviving examples of Embury's work are zoos, swimming pools, playgrounds, and other recreational structures in New York City parks.
context_section_description: Embury served for fourteen months during World War I as a captain in  the Fortieth Engineers, United States Army Corps of Engineers where he helped establish a unit of eight professional artists to document the activities of the American Expeditionary Force in France.  During this time, Capt. Embury designed the Distinguished Service Cross and the Distinguished Service Medal. Later, in 1932, he became a lieutenant colonel in the Officers Reserve Corps.
caption: The University Club of Washington, DC (1920)
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