Streets
of
Camden, NJ

Lester
Terrace


LESTER TERRACE ran east from Broadway for one block, to South 6th Street, opposite the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyards, north of Morgan Street. Lester Terrace was one of the blocks in what was known as "The Terraces", four blocks of row houses built that included the 500 blocks of Woodland Avenue, Gordon Terrace, and Fairview Street. Many of these homes had been abandoned by 1990, and were all for the most part razed by the end of the decade. The balance of the homes, perhaps a dozen or so,  were acquired by local government had been taken down by the end of 2008. 
 

Do you have a Lester Terrace memory or picture? Let me know by e-mail so it can be included here.

 Phil Cohen


Intersection of Lester Terrace & Broadway
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500 Block of Lester Terrace
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  505 Lester Terrace

1947 James J. Reynolds

  506 Lester Terrace

1947 Paul Paleas

  507 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 Doris Corbin
1969
1980

  508 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 Stephen J. Budesa
1969
1980

  509 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 Albertus B. Jones
1969
1980

  510 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 Bernard Kennedy
1969
1980

  511 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 George W. Pyffer
1969
1980

  512 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 Edward J. Sears
1969
1980

  513 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 Horace C. Royster
1969
1980

  514 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 George Elicic

515 Lester Terrace

1915 Eva Sadtler

Philadelphia Inquirer
June 6, 1915

  515 Lester Terrace

1947 Harry F. Myers
1969
1980

  516 Lester Terrace

1944-1947
Allen Edward Van Deventer & Family

  516 Lester Terrace

Seaman First Class
Allen Harry Van Deventer

  516 Lester Terrace

1969
1980

  517 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 Angelo Bello
1969
1980

  518 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 Marko Kordich
1969
1980

  519 Lester Terrace

1932 John Uboldi

  519 Lester Terrace

1947
Alexander Slowey Sr. & Family

519 Lester Terrace

Private First Class
Alexander Slowey Jr.

  520 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 John H. Herrmann
1969
1980

  521 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 Thomas J. Waters

  522 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 George H. Goslin

523 Lester Terrace

1932 Mrs. Mary Bandaruk

Camden Courier-Post
June 7, 1932

Samuel M. Shay
John Uboldi

  524 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 Simon A, Jacob
1969
1980

  525 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 Vincent A. Welsh

  526 Lester Terrace

1947 Netter Higgenbotham

  527 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 John W. Monk

  528 Lester Terrace

1947
Fred J. Malone
paperhanger

  529 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 Mrs. Marie B. Doyle
1969
1980

  530 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 George A. Wyatt
1964 Raymond F. McClintock

  531 Lester Terrace

1947 George R. Esler

WOMAN DRINKS IODINE AFTER FAMILY QUARREL

Mrs. Nancy Veit, 20, of 532 Lester Terrace, was admitted to West Jersey Hospital last night after a family row allegedly led her to drink iodine in an attempt to take her life.

Detective Joseph Carpani lodged a detainer against the woman and said she would be charged with attempted suicide, when her husband, Charles, 22, said she drank the iodine after an argument. Hospital officials said Mrs. Veit's condition was not serious.

532 Lester Terrace

1935
Charles Veit & Family
Charles & Nacy Veit

Camden Courier-Post
October 29, 1935

  532 Lester Terrace

1947 Mrs. Olga Rey
1969
1980

  533 Lester Terrace

1947 William H. Fisk

  534 Lester Terrace

1947 James T. Kennedy

 

  535 Lester Terrace

1947 Charles Merritt Jr.
1969
1980

  536 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 Mrs. Bessie M. Veach
1969
1980

536, 540, 544 & 546
Lester Terrace

Photo Taken February 7, 2004

536, 540, 544 & 546
Lester Terrace

Photo Taken February 7, 2004

  537 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 John H. Flynn
1969
1980

  538 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 Mrs. Minnie Strunk
1969
1980

 539 Lester Terrace

1915 David Proctor

Philadelphia Inquirer
January 31, 1915

BABIES BORN IN APRIL GET B. & L. STOCK SHARES

The first payment on one share of stock in the Kearsarge Building and Loan Association has been offered to parents of the following children born in the Fourteenth ward during the month of April: 

Norman Turner, 824 Bulson Street; Kathryn Jeanette Mahoney, 709 Morgan Street; Anna Mae Hollowell, 550 Grant Avenue; Janice Fem Crossett, 551 Woodland Avenue; Thomas Joseph Dorsey, Jr., 2929 Constitution Road; June Lonkert, 1515 Collings Road; Donald Embley Corson, 2512 Morgan Boulevard; Eileen Francis Patton, 1212 Yorkship Square; Philip Edward Gruber, Jr., 1232 America Road; Jean Marie Fanslow, 1659 Alabama Road; John Campbell, 539 Lester Terrace; William Richard Hook, 1677 Alabama Road; Carole Marie Davis, 2788 Yorkship Square, and Earl Purnell Lewin, 1228 America Road

 539 Lester Terrace

1933 John Campbell

Camden Courier-Post
June 10, 1933

   539 Lester Terrace

1947 Herman Kehler
1969
1980

   540 Lester Terrace

1914
Joseph Robinson & Family
Joseph & Harriet Rovinson

1916
William Dawson & Family
William & Retta Dawson

540 Lester Terrace

1917-1920
Mrs. Carrie Bauer Devine & Family
Mark James "Marty" Devine
James J. Devine

540 Lester Terrace

1917-1920
Mark James "Marty" Devine

  540 Lester Terrace

1921-1922
Alfred C. Sockwell & Family
Alfred G. & Gladys Sockwell

1923
Henry F. Muckley & Family
Henry F. & Catherine B. Mukley
William J. Muckley

1924
James P. Green & Family
James P. & Jennie Green

1926
Mrs. Anna Rub

1927
Mrs. Matilda Van Horn
Edward Van Horn

1928
James K. Lewis Jr. & Family
James K. & Hilda M. Lewis

1931
James P. Green & Family
James P. & Jennie Green

1943-1947
Charles Banke & Family
Charles & Mary Banke

1969
1980

  541 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 Peter E. Fascenda
1969
1980

  542 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 Edwin C. Chamberlin
1969
1980

  543 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 Mrs. Myrtle M. Finke
1969
1980

  544 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 Mitchell Green
1969
1980

  545 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 Herbert Williams
1969
1980

546 Lester Terrace

1921 Mary Kelly

Camden Courier-Post
June 29, 1921

 

  546 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 Alfred L. Fean
1969
1980

  547 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 Thomas Roddy
1969
1980

  548 Lester Terrace

1929
1947 Edward H. Ortluff
1969
1980


Intersection of South 6th Street & Lester Terrace
   
Looking West from South 6th Street - February 7, 2004
Looking
Northwest from
South
6th
Street

February 7, 2004

 

   
   

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