Hungarian Consulate & UN Mission (New York City, New York)

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

8-story Neo-Georgian diplomatic office building completed in 1890 as an apartment building. Emery Roth & Sons was the architect. It is clad in pale-pink brick above a limestone ground floor with a grey granite water table. There is also a central limestone section above the main entrance, flanked by symmetrical 4-bay wings, with an extra section at the east end.

The main entrance is recessed and flanked by four Doric columns with a pair of metal medallions above them. The wood-and-glass double-doors are set under a round-arched fanlight, with coffering on the underside of the arch, which is topped by a large keystone. A light fixture hangs in front of the fanlight. A rounded band course sets off the 2nd floor, which has four recessed multi-pane windows behind a shallow stone balcony fronted by bronze railings between five paneled stone plinths. Two of the serve as bases for round Doric columns that support the floors above, and the center plinth, directly above the keystone below, has a projecting flagpole mounted on it. There is light rustication on the limestone on the middle section of this floor, and those above. The 3rd-6th floors have paired windows in the middle, flanked by single-windows; all of them are large, multi-paned windows with white wooden framing. Below the windows on the 3rd-5th floors are white iron grilles with decorative designs. The setback atop the 6th floor is marked by a stone balustrade.

To either side of the central section, the ground floor has three windows with white iron grilles, and toward the ends are slightly recessed doorways with wood-and-glass double-doors, flanked by wall-mounted light fixtures. At the far east end is a segmental-arched garage door with a roll-down metal gate. Decorative ironwork fills the top of the arch.

The upper floors are bordered by brick quoins at the edges of both wings, and also at the extra section at the east. The 2nd floor of each wing has four round-arched Palladian windows with white wooden sash, brick lintels and limestone keystones. The floors above have paired double-windows flanked by single-windows (all multi-paned with white wooden sash). They have flat stone lintels, and all the windows, including the 2nd-floor Palladian windows, have decorative white iron grillwork below them, matching those on the limestone center section. The extra section at the east end has two Palladian windows at the 2nd floor, and three joined windows at the upper floors. A stone band runs below the 6th floor, with short, horizontal, recessed openings below some of the windows. Like the center section, the rest of the facade is topped at the 6th floor by a stone balustrade, enclosing a terrace with plantings.

The top two floors are set back, and shifted off-center to the right. They are clad in brick and organized into five sections. The middle section has two bays of single-windows around a central recessed panel, and rises higher than the other sections, with a mechanical penthouse level on top. The flanking sections have two bays of single-windows, and the end sections have double-windows flanked by single-windows.

The building is now occupied by the Consulate General of the Republic of Hungary in New York and the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Hungary to the United Nations.