Charles F. Noyes

Charles Floyd Noyes (July 19, 1878 – September 2, 1969) was an American real estate broker.

Early life Noyes was born on July 19, 1878, in Norwich, Connecticut. He was the son of Carrie Parthenia ( Crane) Noyes (1857–1933) and Charles Denison Noyes (1850–1940), the co-publisher of the Norwich Bulletin. He had two younger brothers, Frederick Kinney Noyes and Harrison Crane Noyes. His maternal grandparents were Stephen Crane and Mary Elizabeth ( Starr) Crane.

Charles graduated from the Norwich Free Academy in 1898.

Along with Schulte Realty, he undertook a project to build a 150-story skyscraper at the back of City Hall, but this was never realized.

In 1951, the Charles F. Noyes Co. brokered what was then the single largest real estate deal in the world when it sold the Empire State Building for $51.5 million, netting his firm a million dollars in brokerage and management fees. he retired and turned over all of the stock in his company to its employees.

Personal life On September 16, 1903, in Brooklyn, New York, Noyes was married to Eleanora Seward Halsted (1880–1921), a daughter of David Frost Halsted and Catherine Ann ( Chamberlain) Halstead. Before her death in 1921, they were the parents of two children, including:

Eleanora "Lorna" Adele Noyes (1904–1977), who married Duncan M. Findlay in 1932. They divorced and he later married Mary Adelaide ( Harding) Simmonds, widow of Albert C. Simmonds Jr. in 1964.

In 1926, Noyes married Jessie Patterson Cooke) Smith (1885–1936) and became stepfather to Dorothy Smith) Bedell, Alfred Smith, and Edith Smith) Muma. Jessie, the widow of Rowland Holbrook Smith and daughter of Benjamin Cooke, was a "champion for racial equality and an advocate for religious tolerance".