page_title: Emanuel Cohen (businessman)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Emanuel Cohen (businessman) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Monster Clothing Store at south corner King William and Hindley streets, c. 1882
context_page_description: Emanuel Cohen was businessman in South Australia, and was responsible for the erection of several of Adelaide's premier buildings.
context_section_description: Cohen was born in London and emigrated to Australia, arriving in Melbourne aboard Coromandel in August 1852, and made his way to Adelaide in the same month. It was the time of the Victorian gold rush, and he joined the exodus to the diggings.
  He had no luck as a prospector, and worked and joined with a company supplying requisites to the diggers at Forest Creek, Barkers Creek, Loddon, Bendigo, Maryborough, Avoca and Tarrengower.
  At Bendigo (then named Sandhurst) he renewed acquaintance with author B. L. Farjeon who founded a newspaper there.
  In 1856 he returned to Adelaide, where he began speculating as a property developer. Among his notable activities were:
  Around 1863 he pulled down three shops opposite the Globe Hotel in Rundle Street and rebuilt them.
  From 1865 he operated a general store in Goolwa, living on Admiral Terrace. His business was taken over in 1873 by Thomas Goode.
  In 1877 he built a three-storeyed building at "Muirhead's Corner" of King William and Hindley streets, for a time tenanted by the "Monster Clothing Palace". Cohen opened a restaurant, "Shades", in its large cellar.
  converted two shops into the International Hotel in Rundle Street
  built a warehouse for McLean Brothers & Rigg in Hindley Street.
  converted the old Commercial Bank (King William Street, opposite Bank of Adelaide) into the Comstock Chambers suite of offices
  converted R. H. Wigg & Co.'s premises in King William Street into two shops, one being Taylor's oyster saloon.
  He was a member of the syndicate (with Wendt, Solomon and L. H. Behrens) that built the Adelaide Arcade, and in London personally selected the glass, the marble floor tiling, and the electric light fittings.
  He died at his residence, Gover Street, North Adelaide.
caption: Monster Clothing Store at south corner King William and Hindley streets, c. 1882
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