Bhutanese Consulate & UN Mission

 consulate / consular section / consul residence, diplomatic / foreign mission / representation

6-story office building/diplomatic mission completed in 1928. It is clad in red brick with orange and red terra-cotta trim. The east facade facing the avenue has a grey granite water table, and a central entrance with glass-and-bronze double-doors framed by bronze piers. On either side is a 2-over-4 window with bronze framing. The upper floors have two bays of paired windows, with slightly-projecting brick piers around each bay. Orange terra-cotta lintels runs across the window pairs, and the spandrel panels between floors have red terra-cotta ornament in the form of 4x2 grids of spirals. The facade is crowned by a black metal roof cornice at the 5th floor, with brackets, modillons, dentils, and panels, and a stepped up center section; there are sunbursts in the two middle panels below the stepped-up section. The 6th floor is set-back, and hidden from view, although a brick chimney is visible on the north end of the roof.

The south facade overlooking the park abuts the stone wall that marks the north end of the park. Steps lead up to 43rd Street, where the ground level corresponds to the 3rd floor on the avenue. The facade has a bay of single-windows at each end. Next to the west end bay are three bays of paired windows, and next to the east end bay is a decorative shaft of beige stone arranged into five vertical strips. The terra-cotta spandrels are like those on the east facade, but the lintels are separated over each window. The ground floor (3rd floor) has a bronze-and-glass door at the far west end, and a similar double-door next to it, both covered by a green canvas canopy. The roof cornice continues onto this facade, with a stepped-up section near the west end.

The 6th floor is newer, set back and clad in red cast-stone scored into blocks. It has five single-windows on the south facade, and is topped by a metal coping, as is the smaller mechanical penthouse at the west end.

The building now houses the offices of the Consul-General of the Kingdom of Bhutan, and the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the United Nations in New York.

www.mfa.gov.bt/pmbny/