177 Duane Street | apartment building

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6-story Neo-Grec/Queen Anne-style residential building completed in 1885. Designed by Bloodgood & Bloodgood as a store-and-loft building, the ground floor is black cast-iron, with bay infill of historic transoms and paired wood and glass doors. Above the ground floor, the red brick facade has three bays of windows per story with square and segmental heads trimmed in brick and white stone, creating a staggered horizontal pattern. Stone sill courses and keystones further mark the design. The building is crowned by a brick parapet trimmed in terra-cotta. A metal fire escape runs down the center of the facade.

In the late 1880s this building housed Clark, Chapin & Burnett, wholesale grocers. By 1915 it was occupied by dairy merchants Duoste & Snyder. 20th century commercial tenants included Millsam Food Corporation, Jersey Coast Egg Producers, and the Spiritus Cheese Company. The building is currently residential above the ground floor, which houses a bakery.