A red door is very meaningful in Savannah, Georgia:
It may have started in Scotland, but perhaps nowhere else in the world today do you see the symbolism of a painted red front door on a home or business than in Savannah Georgia.
In a world peppered with meaningless, ironic and often graphic imagery, a world that went from the quill inked hand penned letter, to type written note, to email, to text messaging, and now Emojicons, Savannah's red doors have a simple and truely symbolic meaning - If you paint the front door of your home or business red it means you have paid it off and are the 100% owner.
In a world peppered with meaningless, ironic and often graphic imagery, a world that went from the quill inked hand penned letter, to type written note, to email, to text messaging, and now Emojicons, Savannah's red doors have a simple and truely symbolic meaning - If you paint the front door of your home or business red it means you have paid it off and are the 100% owner.
- Kevin Simpson, "Can You Paint Your Door Red? A Lesson From Savannah", https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-you-paint-your-door-red-lesson-from-savannah-kevin-simpson/
Another source cites banks going door-to-door once a month to collect mortgages and red doors indicated that the mortgage was paid off and therefore no need to knock on the door.
And finally, our tour guide indicated that the city will paint doors red once the mortgage gets paid off, though I find no references to that.
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