165 Duane Street

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10-story Romanesque-revival/Neo-Grec cooperative-apartment building completed in 1881 as a warehouse, factory & offices. Designed by Stephen D. Hatch, it was originally named the Schepp Building, for businessman Leopold Schepp, it was one of New York's tallest when built. It was mainly used for coconut processing and packaging. It featured a mansard tower corner on the southeast corner, which was removed at some point between 1915 and 1928.

It has a granite base with large segmental-arched openings which originally served as loading bays. Above, the brick facade is separated into six arcaded bays per story on Duane Street and five on Hudson. Each bay of the 2nd floor has two round-arched window openings with stone springers flanked by granite colonnettes. The 3rd and 4th floors have segmentally-arched openings topped by keystones. Floors five through seven have three round-arched openings per bay; the 8th floor has four square-headed openings per bay and is topped by an elaborate corbelled brick cornice. Floors nine and ten have dormers with paired windows set into a slate mansard roof.

For many years the Schepp Building served as company headquarters and as a coconut processing plant. After his death Schepp's daughter assumed his interests, and the foundation maintained ownership of the building through the 1940s. The building was converted to co-op apartments in 1980.