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. |
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Intersection of Lester
Terrace & Broadway |
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500 Block of Lester
Terrace |
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Lester Terrace
1947 James J. Reynolds |
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506
Lester Terrace
1947 Paul Paleas |
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Lester Terrace
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Lester Terrace
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Lester Terrace
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Lester Terrace
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Lester Terrace
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Lester Terrace
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Lester Terrace
1915 Eva Sadtler Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Lester Terrace
1947 Harry F. Myers |
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Lester Terrace
1944-1947 |
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Lester Terrace
1969 |
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Lester Terrace
1929 |
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Lester Terrace
1929 |
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Lester Terrace
1932 John Uboldi |
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Lester Terrace
1947 |
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519 Lester Terrace |
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Lester Terrace
1929 |
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Lester Terrace
1929 |
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Lester Terrace
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Lester Terrace
1932 Mrs. Mary Bandaruk Camden Courier-Post Samuel
M. Shay |
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Lester Terrace
1929 |
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Lester Terrace
1929 |
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Lester Terrace
1947 Netter Higgenbotham |
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527
Lester Terrace
1929 |
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528
Lester Terrace
1947 |
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Lester Terrace
1929 |
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Lester Terrace
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531
Lester Terrace
1947 George R. Esler |
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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 Camden Courier-Post |
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Lester Terrace
1947 Mrs. Olga Rey |
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Lester Terrace
1947 William H. Fisk |
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Lester Terrace
1947 James T. Kennedy
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Lester Terrace
1947 Charles Merritt Jr. |
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Lester Terrace
1929 |
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536,
540, 544 & 546 Lester Terrace Photo Taken February 7, 2004 |
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536,
540, 544 & 546 Lester Terrace Photo Taken February 7, 2004 |
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Lester Terrace
1929 |
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Lester Terrace
1929 |
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Lester Terrace
1915 David Proctor Philadelphia Inquirer |
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 |
539
Lester Terrace
1947 Herman Kehler |
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540
Lester Terrace
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540
Lester Terrace
1917-1920 |
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Lester Terrace
1917-1920 |
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Lester Terrace
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Lester Terrace
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Lester Terrace
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Lester Terrace
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Lester Terrace
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Lester Terrace
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Lester Terrace
1921 Mary Kelly Camden Courier-Post
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Lester Terrace
1929 |
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Lester Terrace
1929 |
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Lester Terrace
1929 |
Intersection of South 6th Street & Lester Terrace | |
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Looking West from South 6th Street - February 7, 2004 | |
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Looking Northwest from South 6th Street February 7, 2004
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