This narrow house originally mirrored its Italianate neighbor at number 112 to the west, but in 1963 was radically transformed for use as a law office by architects Gunn and Meyerhoff into an essay in minimalist forms of the International Style—white walls, cantilevered horizontal plane over the glazed entrance, groups of elongated single-pane windows evoking ribbon windows, and vertical copper ribs linking the stories together.
Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Law Office (House)", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-2.22.
Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 50-50.
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