180 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 red 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 The iron cornice originally topping the 5th floor has been replaced by a patterned brick parapet.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.

In the 1940s the present building was occupied by butter and eggs wholesalers such as William Schlechter and Charles Seidenwerg's Sons; from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s it was occupied by butter merchant W.J. Ludwig. It was then used for storage until being converted to apartments. The ground floor is occupied by Johnathan Burden restoration furniture.