William Alciphron Boring (September 9, 1859 – May 5, 1937) was an American architect noted for co-designing the Immigration Station at Ellis Island in New York harbor.

[1] From 1887 to 1890, Boring studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris along with his friend Edward Lippincott Tilton.

Boring and Tilton returned to New York in 1890 to work in the office of McKim, Mead, and White.

The partnership's work culminated in the 1897 design for the new federal Immigration Station at Ellis Island.

As dean of architecture at Columbia Boring, and especially his successor Joseph Hudnut, encouraged the then-nascent modernism and incorporated studies in town planning.