Charles Floyd Noyes (July 19, 1878 – September 2, 1969) was an American real estate broker.
[3] Known to many on Wall Street as "the greatest of real estate brokers," at one time or another he bought or sold almost every commercial property in lower Manhattan.
[5] In 1947, in honor of his late second wife, he organized the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation to provide grants promoting equal access to quality education.
Jessie, the widow of Rowland Holbrook Smith and daughter of Benjamin Cooke, was a "champion for racial equality and an advocate for religious tolerance".
[6] Noyes died on September 2, 1969, at a nursing home in Greenwich, Connecticut and was buried at Yantic Cemetery in Norwich.