178 Duane Street

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5-story Neo-Grec residential building completed in 1869. Designed by John B. Snook, it is part of a row of four nearly-identical Snook-designed buildings. Above a grey-green cast-iron base, it is clad in white-painted brick with white stone quoins lining each edge of the facade. The windows are segmental-arched, with brick headers featuring stone keystones and springers. The windows also have stone sill courses and corbelled feet. A narrow metal fire escape runs down the center of the facade. The iron cornice originally topping the 5th floor has been replaced by a patterned brick parapet. The ground floor has its original loading platform, and a suspended iron awning framework with sheet metal was added in 1924.

The building was purchased by the New York Egg Auction in 1944, which occupied it until its recent conversion to residential usage. The ground floor is occupied by Robert Mango art gallery.