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Boyz II Men Barber Shop (The Bankers Health and Life Insurance Company)

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1958. 2302 Bull St.

With its ground-hugging horizontality and modernist abstraction, this single-story rectangular building contrasts with its taller early-twentieth-century neighbors. The exterior walls of vertical cast-stone panels and continuous horizontal clerestory windows are shaded by the overhanging flat roof. An off-center porch projects to the front and features a gently bowed screen of polished brown granite vertical panels spaciously set within aluminum frames. Typical of African American businesses in Savannah, hand-painted signage spells out the shop’s name on ribbons above and below a scene, drawn within an oval shape, that juxtaposes portrait busts with a stylized urban setting.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler
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Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Boyz II Men Barber Shop (The Bankers Health and Life Insurance Company)", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-12.11.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 212-213.

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