Historic Savannah Cotton Exchange for sale after more than a century and a half

SAVANNAH, Ga. — The historic Cotton Exchange in downtown Savannah is for sale for the first time in more than a century.

The building on Bay Street was at the center of the global cotton market during its peak. Throughout the 1880s, Savannah was ranked among the top merchant trading ports on the Atlantic coast.

The Cotton Exchange now stands in the middle of Savannah’s downtown and remains one of the city’s most recognizable landmarks.

“The woodwork is all hand carved, the stained glass was made specifically for the cotton exchange, coffer ceilings incredibly plaster columns, the detail is beyond compare,” said Dicky Mopper of Engel & Volkers Savannah.

For the last century and a half, the building has housed Solomon’s Lodge No. 1, the oldest Masonic lodge in the western hemisphere.

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