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[[File:Interior Apartment Staircase - Modulightor Building Paul Ruldolph.jpg|alt=One of the staircases from the third to fourth floors. The stairs appear to float, and there are shelves with objects behind the stairs.|left|thumb|upright|The third and fourth floors are connected by stairs, which have treads that appear to float.<ref name="NYCL (2025) p. 12" />]]
The northern and southern halves of the fourth floor each have two bedrooms and a bathroom; these are connected by a north–south passageway to the east, which lead to the elevator and main stair.<ref name="NYCL (2025) p. 29">{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2025|ps=|page=29}}, diagram.</ref> The LPC labels them as north bedroom 1, north bedroom 2, south bedroom 2, and south bedroom 1 from north to south.<ref name="NYCL (2025) p. 7" /> There are two [[light well]]s overlooking the third floor, one adjoining each pair of bedrooms.<ref name="NYCL (2025) p. 29" /> North bedroom 1 spans the building's width and has a door to a small exterior terrace at its northeast corner, a door to the north bathroom at its southeast corner, and a stair to the northern balcony. Both the north and south number-2 bedrooms are located near the center of the house, with shelves on their western walls. Each bedroom adjoins a stairway, which leads to the light well and balcony on its respective side of the house, and can also be accessed from the passageway.<ref name="NYCL (2025) p. 7" /> South bedroom 1 spans the building's width and has a door to the south bathroom at its northeast corner, a link directly to the fourth-floor passageway,<ref name="NYCL (2025) p. 29" /> and a door at the southeast corner descending to the third-story alcove and the rear garden.<ref name="NYCL (2025) p. 7" /> The bathrooms
==History==
The building is named for the Modulightor lighting company, which Wagner and Rudolph had cofounded in 1976;<ref name="NYCL p. 10">{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2023|ps=.|p=10}}</ref><ref name="Rohan 2014 p. 209">{{cite book |last=Rohan |first=Timothy M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MkmPAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA209 |title=The Architecture of Paul Rudolph |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-300-14939-5 |page=209}}</ref> the firm built prototypes of lamps and other lighting fixtures designed by the two men.<ref name="House of Light 2006">{{Cite web |date=Mar 2006 |title=House of Light |url=http://modulightor.com/installations/house-of-light-article/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023181255/http://modulightor.com/installations/house-of-light-article/ |archive-date=2020-10-23 |access-date=2025-05-22 |work=Elements of Living |page=1}}</ref> Originally, the firm was located at 54 West 57th Street in [[Midtown Manhattan]].<ref name="Institute o972" /> Modulightor had manufactured lighting fixtures for [[23 Beekman Place]], Rudolph's Manhattan townhouse, as well as for his other structures. The company had a workshop in [[SoHo, Manhattan|SoHo]], but the workshop's lease was about to expire by 1988, when Wagner noticed that the structure at 246 East 58th Street was for sale.<ref name="NYCL p. 10" /> The owner, MIRA-X International Furnishings Inc,<ref name="NYCL p. 9" /> sold the building on February 24, 1989, to Rudolph and Wagner for $1.75 million.<ref name="Institute o972" />
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