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

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.

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