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Levy Jewelers (Lerner Shops)

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1947, Cletus W. Bergen; 2012 renovation, Hansen Architects. 2 E. Broughton St.

Designed for the New York-based Lerner Shops apparel store chain, this International Style building (incorporating the east party wall of the previous building on the site) illustrates postwar retail philosophy with an all-glass ground floor to display merchandise, sheltering cantilevered canopy, and windowless upper stories to maximize display space. Variously spaced horizontal channels and (originally) the store name in large cursive script enlivened the large white stucco expanse. This Lerner Shops location closed in 1989. Restored by J. T. Turner Construction, the building now serves as the flagship store for venerable local retailer Levy Jewelers, established in 1900.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler
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Citation

Robin B. Williams with David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler, "Levy Jewelers (Lerner Shops)", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-3.6.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 71-72.

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