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The building is part of the [[Savannah Historic District (Savannah, Georgia)|Savannah Historic District]],<ref name=mpc/> and in a survey for the [[Historic Savannah Foundation]], [[Mary Lane Morrison]] found the building to be of significant status.<ref>”Historic Savannah: Survey of Significant Buildings in the Historic and Victorian Districts of Savannah, Georgia”, [[Mary Lane Morrison]] (1979), p. 297</ref>

The building is part of the [[Savannah Historic District (Savannah, Georgia)|Savannah Historic District]],<ref name=mpc/> and in a survey for the [[Historic Savannah Foundation]], [[Mary Lane Morrison]] found the building to be of significant status.<ref>”Historic Savannah: Survey of Significant Buildings in the Historic and Victorian Districts of Savannah, Georgia”, [[Mary Lane Morrison]] (1979), p. 297</ref>

It was built for David Lopez Cohen (1820–1893),<ref name=aja>[http://americanjewisharchives.org/publications/journal/PDF/2012_64_01_00_stiefel.pdf “David Lopez Jr.: Builder, Industrialist, and Defender of the Confederacy”] – [[American Jewish Archives]]</ref> a successful ship builder from [[Charleston, South Carolina]], and the nephew of [[David L. Lopez]].<ref>http://sites.americanjewisharchives.org/publications/journal/PDF/2012_64_01_00_stiefel.pdf</ref> He also built the [[Congregation Shearith Israel (Charleston, South Carolina)|Shearith Israel Synagogue]] at 34 Wentworth Street in Charleston.<ref name=aja/><ref>[https://mappingjewishcharleston.cofc.edu/1833/map.php?id=1038 Mapping Jewish CharlestonFrom The Colonial Era To The Present Day] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606004240/https://mappingjewishcharleston.cofc.edu/1833/map.php?id=1038 |date=2020-06-06 }} – [[College of Charleston]]</ref> He is interred in [[Laurel Grove Cemetery]].<ref name=sheehy>[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”] – Barry Sheehy, Cindy Wallace, Vaughnette Goode-Walker (2011)</ref>

It was built for David Lopez Cohen (1820–1893),<ref name=aja>[http://americanjewisharchives.org/publications/journal/PDF/2012_64_01_00_stiefel.pdf “David Lopez Jr.: Builder, Industrialist, and Defender of the Confederacy”] – [[American Jewish Archives]]</ref> a successful ship builder from [[Charleston, South Carolina]], and the nephew of [[David L. Lopez]].<ref>http://sites.americanjewisharchives.org/publications/journal/PDF/2012_64_01_00_stiefel.pdf</ref> He also built the [[Congregation Shearith Israel (Charleston, South Carolina)|Shearith Israel Synagogue]] at 34 Wentworth Street in Charleston.<ref name=aja/><ref>[https://mappingjewishcharleston.cofc.edu/1833/map.php?id=1038 Mapping Jewish CharlestonFrom The Colonial Era To The Present Day] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606004240/https://mappingjewishcharleston.cofc.edu/1833/map.php?id=1038 |date=2020-06-06 }} – [[College of Charleston]]</ref> He is interred in [[Laurel Grove Cemetery]].<ref name=sheehy>[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”] – Barry Sheehy, Cindy Wallace, Vaughnette Goode-Walker (2011)</ref>

==See also==

==See also==

Historic house in Savannah, Georgia

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]

  1. ^ a b Historic Building Map: Savannah Historic District – Historic Preservation Department of the Chatham County-Savannah
    Metropolitan Planning Commission (November 17, 2011)
  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. ^ a b “David Lopez Jr.: Builder, Industrialist, and Defender of the Confederacy”American Jewish Archives
  5. ^ http://sites.americanjewisharchives.org/publications/journal/PDF/2012_64_01_00_stiefel.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  6. ^ Mapping Jewish CharlestonFrom The Colonial Era To The Present Day Archived 2020-06-06 at the Wayback MachineCollege of Charleston
  7. ^ Savannah, Immortal City: Volume One of the Civil War Savannah Series – Barry Sheehy, Cindy Wallace, Vaughnette Goode-Walker (2011)

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