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As designed, the showroom of the Modulightor company was intended to be on the first floor, while the story immediately above was to be Rudolph's office.<ref name="Devlin 2017 p. 230">{{cite book |last=Devlin |first=Polly |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SY8pDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT230 |title=New York Behind Closed Doors |publisher=Gibbs Smith |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-4236-4732-4 |page=230 |archive-date=January 16, 2024 |access-date=May 22, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240116025406/https://books.google.com/books?id=SY8pDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT230 |url-status=live}}</ref> The third and fourth floors were to contain two [[duplex apartment]]s<ref name="Devlin 2017 p. 230" /> (later combined into one).<ref name="NYCL (2025) p. 11">{{harvnb|Landmarks Preservation Commission|2025|ps=.|page=11 }}</ref><ref name="Kasingsing i153" /> Another apartment was added on the fifth and sixth floors in the 2010s;<ref name="6sqft" /><ref name="Institute o972">{{cite web |date=June 6, 2001 |title=1988.01 Modulightor |url=https://www.paulrudolph.institute/198801-modulightor |access-date=May 22, 2025 |website=Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture |archive-date=November 21, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241121014906/https://www.paulrudolph.institute/198801-modulightor |url-status=live}}</ref> these were part of Rudolph's original plans but not completed during his lifetime.<ref name="Kasingsing i153" /><ref name="NYCL p. 11" /> The Modulightor shop is connected to the upper floors via a stair in the rear.<ref name="Architectural Press Limited 2004 p." />

{{As of|2024}}, the building holds Modulightor's fabrication center in the basement and on the first floor.<ref name="Cereal d504">{{cite web |last=Gallow |first=Lauren |date=September 25, 2021 |title=The Modulightor Building |url=https://readcereal.com/modulightor/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927161834/https://readcereal.com/modulightor/ |archive-date=September 27, 2021 |access-date=May 22, 2025 |website=Cereal Magazine}}</ref> The store sells lighting fixtures, including lamps similar to those thatat Rudolph's house on 23 Beekman Place.<ref name="nyt-2007-10-07">{{Cite news |last=Bernstein |first=Fred A. |date=October 7, 2007 |title=Shining Moment |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/t-magazine/design/07shining.html |access-date=May 22, 2025 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=June 5, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150605042345/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/t-magazine/design/07shining.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The remaining spaces house the Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture,<ref name="Cereal d504" /> which hosts events and exhibits at the apartment.<ref name="Wainwright v727" /><ref name="Kasingsing i153"/> The institute gives periodic tours of the duplex,<ref name="Wainwright v727" /><ref name="Kasingsing i153"/> opening it to the public twice monthly.<ref name="Levingston r951">{{cite web |last=Levingston |first=Miranda |date=May 6, 2025 |title=This Upper East Side Duplex Apartment Is NYC's Newest Landmark |url=https://patch.com/new-york/upper-east-side-nyc/duplex-apartment-modulightor-building-gets-landmarked |access-date=May 22, 2025 |website=Upper East Side, NY Patch |archive-date=May 6, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250506175018/https://patch.com/new-york/upper-east-side-nyc/duplex-apartment-modulightor-building-gets-landmarked |url-status=live}}</ref> The Rudolph Foundation, which occupied the building until 2014,<ref name="Institute o972" /><ref name="NYCL (2025) p. 14"/> also hosted tours and rented out the space for events.<ref name="nyt-2004-07-08" /> The building's interior is the only Rudolph–designed space in New York City that is ordinarily open to the public.<ref name="Wainwright v727" /><ref name="LPC u503">{{cite web |date=May 6, 2025 |title=LPC Designates Manhattan's Modulightor Building Apartment Duplex as an Interior Landmark |url=https://www.nyc.gov/site/lpc/about/pr2025/lpc-designates-modulightor-interior-20250506.page |access-date=May 22, 2025 |website=Welcome to NYC.gov |archive-date=May 15, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250515231320/https://www.nyc.gov/site/lpc/about/pr2025/lpc-designates-modulightor-interior-20250506.page |url-status=live}}</ref>

==== Third- and fourth-floor duplex ====