The William H. Moore House, also known as the Stokes-Moore Mansion and 4 East 54th Street, is a commercial building in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.

The William H. Moore House is at 4 East 54th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.

[12] The original facade is divided horizontally into three sections: the ground-floor English basement, the three center stories, and the fifth-story attic.

[13] Russell Sturgis, writing for Architectural Record in 1900, described 4 East 54th Street as "tranquil, simple, and not ineffective", but he thought that the balcony outside the second floor should have been placed at a greater height.

The first story is faced with rusticated stone blocks, and it contains flat-arched display windows on the left and right bays, topped by keystones with volutes.

[13] The second through fifth stories facing 54th Street each contain three rectangular windows, which are surrounded by increasingly simple moldings on higher floors.

These stories are mostly clad with flat stone, but the extreme ends of the facade contain rusticated quoins.

The center window on the third story has a rectangular balcony, with a railing made of carved ironwork, and it is topped by a rounded pediment.

[2] The interior was outfitted with 21 fireplaces; marble floors, stairs, and pillars; mahogany, oak, and cypress decorative elements; wrought iron fretwork; and stained glass windows.

[20] William Earl Dodge Stokes was born in 1852 and helped develop many buildings on the Upper West Side in the late 19th century.

[25][15] The wedding was held at 47 West 48th Street, the Midtown mansion where Rita Acosta's parents Ricardo and Micaela lived.

[28][29] The buyer's name was initially not publicized,[29] but William Stokes hired McKim, Mead & White to design a five-story brick-and-stone residence on the site shortly after the sale.

[38] As of the 1910 United States census, the residents included not only the Moores but also nine servants, eight of whom were immigrants from Scotland, Sweden, Finland, and Ireland.

[25] William's grandson Paul Moore Jr., a bishop of the Episcopal Church, recalled that the house was filled with "Persian rugs, Victorian furniture, etc.

[41] After William Moore's death, Ada used the house for several events, such as a pre-Lent lecture,[42] a tea for the Society of Woman Geographers,[43] and a reception for Metropolitan Opera singers.

Paul Moore Jr. recalled that his grandmother's butler called the Stork Club's owner Sherman Billingsley regularly to complain about the noise from the restaurant.

[46] The Waxman Brothers had moved into the house by July 1960, when the company formed a new mortgage firm, the Jefferson Funding Corporation, with offices in the building.

[47] The America-Israel Cultural Foundation (AICF), a group founded by violinist Isaac Stern, acquired the house in 1966 and converted the building into its headquarters.

It hosted events such as an exhibit of artifacts from the "Land of the Bible",[49] a reception for Batsheva Dance Company performers,[50] a series of photographs about the 1948 Arab–Israeli War,[51] and a display of modern and ancient jewelry.

Famolare had initially intended to demolish the interior to make way for "white walls and sleek-looking insides".

The mahogany and stained glass interiors were thus retained, becoming Famolare Shoes' sales offices and showrooms.

Christopher Gray of The New York Times said the addition "completely negates any suggestion that the building is any longer a mansion but it is in no way offensive".

[25] After Banco di Napoli was acquired in Sanpaolo IMI Bank in 2000, it placed the building for sale in 2001 for $28.5 million.

The upper stories would be used for wholesaling, but Banco di Napoli had installed partition walls there, which Kiton planned to remove.