David Cohen House Explained

David Cohen House
Location:	Savannah, Georgia, U.S.
Address:	108 East Jones Street
Coordinates:	32.0723°N -81.0928°W
Floor Count:	3

The David Cohen House is a home in Savannah, Georgia, United States. It is located at 108 East Jones Street and was constructed in 1853.^{[1] [2]}

The building is part of the Savannah Historic District,^[1] and in a survey for the Historic Savannah Foundation, Mary Lane Morrison found the building to be of significant status.^[3]

It was built for David Lopez Cohen (1820–1893),^[4] a successful ship builder from Charleston, South Carolina, and the nephew of David L. Lopez.^[5] He also built the Shearith Israel Synagogue at 34 Wentworth Street in Charleston.^{[4] [6]} He is interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery.^[7]

See also

• Buildings in Savannah Historic District

Notes and References

1. https://www.thempc.org/docs/lit/hist/maps/supplement.pdf Historic Building Map: Savannah Historic District
2. A Visitor’s Guide to Historic Savannah Homes, Tom Draffin (2017), p. 1857
3. Historic Savannah: Survey of Significant Buildings in the Historic and Victorian Districts of Savannah, Georgia, Mary Lane Morrison (1979), p. 297
4. http://americanjewisharchives.org/publications/journal/PDF/2012_64_01_00_stiefel.pdf "David Lopez Jr.: Builder, Industrialist, and Defender of the Confederacy"
5. http://sites.americanjewisharchives.org/publications/journal/PDF/2012_64_01_00_stiefel.pdf
6. https://mappingjewishcharleston.cofc.edu/1833/map.php?id=1038 Mapping Jewish CharlestonFrom The Colonial Era To The Present Day
7. https://books.google.com/books?id=Pl1aavDFhPUC&dq=Augustus+Bonaud+savannah+georgia&pg=PA289 Savannah, Immortal City: Volume One of the Civil War Savannah Series