{"nrhp_refnum":"72000878","name":"Moore, William H., House","other_names":["American-Israel Cultural Foundation"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4 E. 54th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.76074154400004,"lon":-73.97479844999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1972-03-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-story stone townhouse at 4 East 54th Street in Manhattan, designed in 1898 by McKim, Mead and White and built between 1898 and 1900 for William H. Moore. It later housed the America-Israel Cultural Foundation.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the house as a work of the noted firm McKim, Mead and White and as a fine adaptation of a historical style, Renaissance Revival drawing on 18th-century English town houses, to the New York streetscape, helped by a double 50-foot lot. It also shows how noteworthy residences can be reused by philanthropic organizations once private families can no longer maintain them.","narrative":"Located at 4 East 54th Street in Manhattan, this five-story stone townhouse was designed in 1898 by McKim, Mead and White and built between 1898 and 1900. Its first occupant was William H. Moore, a Chicago industrialist who helped found the United States Steel Corporation and the American Can Company. The design draws on Renaissance Revival forms as interpreted from English town houses of the 18th century. A rusticated basement holds the entrance, smooth masonry rises above it, and the facade carries carved balconies, console brackets, quoins, and a projecting cornice with a balustraded parapet. The nomination praises it as a strong solution to the problem of fitting historical styles into the New York streetscape, aided by a double 50-foot lot. The house was later used as the headquarters of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, which the form cites as an example of reusing fine residences that private families can no longer maintain. The building is described as unaltered and in excellent condition.","period_of_significance":"1898-1900","architect_builder":"McKim, Mead and White (Charles Follen McKim, William Rutherford Mead, Stanford White)","architectural_style":"Renaissance Revival, interpreted from 18th-century English town houses","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in excellent condition and unaltered, on its original site; used as the headquarters of a cultural foundation.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.926892-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/72000878.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000878/003f0646f1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/72000878/003f0646f1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Americasroof at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William-moore-house.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Americasroof at English Wikipedia</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William-moore-house.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319740","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Moore_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8010519"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/moore-william-h-house-72000878/"}