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Sears Building (Sears Roebuck and Co.)

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1946, Shutze and Armistead; 1970–1971 alterations, Danielson and Paine, Architects. 2 E. Henry St.

The first suburban location for Sears after it moved from Broughton Street, this was a major early shopping plaza in Savannah and represents a transitional phase in the evolution of retail architecture. The building retains the Art Moderne style and projecting canopy over the Bull Street entrance in the manner of urban stores on Broughton, while exploiting its fully detached form with dynamic asymmetrical massing and incorporating a second entrance, also protected by a canopy, facing the off-street parking lot to the south, anticipating suburban malls of the future. The original sleek windowless facade allowed for expanded interior display space. In 1970 the plan was altered and windows added for an unrealized proposed conversion of the building into a nursing home. Beginning in 1974, the building housed government offices for several years; it is currently vacant.

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, "Sears Building (Sears Roebuck and Co.)", [Savannah, Georgia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/GA-02-10.13.

Print Source

Buildings of Savannah, Robin B. Williams. With David Gobel, Patrick Haughey, Daves Rossell, and Karl Schuler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, 187-188.

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