44 White Street

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5-story residential building completed in 1866 as a store-and-loft building. It has a tall ground floor with fluted Corinthian columns and a dentiled cornice. The upper floors are clad in tan stone with round-arched windows recessed behind the enframements; those in the center have keystones. A silver metal fire escape runs down the left two-thirds of the facade, which is topped by a bracketed metal roof cornice above a row of dentils.

The building's early occupants, which are typical of the district, included Henry Glass & Company, manufacturers, importers, and converters of linens, cottons, and velvets; and Henry Goudchaux, a leading dry goods dealer. It was converted to residential sometime around the 1990s.