171 Duane Street (New York City, New York)

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5-story Italianate residential building completed in 1860, as an expansion of an earlier structure from 1803. The white cast-iron facade was installed during this alteration. The original window openings and molded lintels of earlier building are seen on the Staple Street facade. Faced in cast-iron, the Duane Street facade above the 1st floor has three bays of windows per floor with square heads on the 2nd and 4th floors and arched heads on the 3rd and 5th. The bays are framed by full-height pilasters culminating in the top arcade. The building is topped with a shallow cornice. The fixed metal awning was added in 1915.

In the late 19th century, the building housed coffee and spice wholesalers; by the early twentieth century it was leased to dairy merchants Enyard & Godley, and used for warehouse space and offices. In the mid-1940s it was occupied by M.J. King, Inc., egg wholesalers, who remained there through the mid-1970s. It has since been converted to residential use.