Streets
of
Camden, NJ

Penn Street


PENN STREET did not appear in the 1863 Camden City Directory, but is listed in the 1867 edition. The street runs east from the Delaware River to North 12th Street. Much of Penn Street between North 3rd and North 5th Street was razed to make way for the expansion of Rutgers University, and several blocks of Penn Street disappeared when Route 676 was built through the heart of Camden to connect to the Ben Franklin Bridge toll plaza.

Do you have an Penn Street memory or picture. Let me know by e-mail so it can be included here.

 Phil Cohen


Intersection of Delaware River & Penn Street
Northwest Corner

1929 J. Eavenson & Sons
Soap Manufacturer
1929 Wilson & Company
Soap Manufacturer

Intersection of Ambler Street & Penn Street
34 to 48 Penn Street
  34 Penn Street
Intersection of Point Street & Penn Street
50 to 67 Penn Street
50 Penn Street

1902
William R. Brice & Family
William R. & Kate Brice

Camden Post-Telegram
November 28, 1902

MRS. AMANDA E. COLE

The funeral of Mrs. Amanda E. Cole, who died Friday, will be held at 1.30 p. m. tomorrow at her late home, 51 Penn Street. Burial will be at Fernwood, Pennsylvania. She was the wife of William H. Cole. 

51 Penn Street

1930s William & Amanda Cole

Camden Courier-Post
June 12, 1933

53 Penn Street

1922 Beatrice Aveyard

Philadelphia Inquirer
November 20, 1922

53 Penn Street

Furnished Rooms

Camden Courier-Post
June 7, 1933

55 Penn Street

1918-1919
Patrick Constance

Philadelphia Inquirer
December 29, 1918

St. John Street
Isaac Frisch

55 Penn Street

1941 Samuel Carey

Camden Courier-Post
July 1, 1941

Gene R. Mariano
Frank Maroccia
South 4th Street
South 5th Street

Division Street

 

 

56 Penn Street

1897 & 1900
Robert S. Bender

56 Penn Street

1927 Lester Anderson

61 Penn Street

1917
Clifford Grundy

Philadelphia Inquirer
June 17, 1918

67 Penn Street

1890 Sally Hunt

Camden Post
December 3, 1890

J.K.R. Hewitt
Wilson Jenkins
Carman Street
Harriet C. Smith
Fogarty Avenue

 

  67 Penn Street

1943-1947
George Leary & Family
George & Ellen Leary
Herbert Leary - Clifford Leary
George Leary - Elmer Leary
Elma Leary

  67 Penn Street

 


Intersection of North Front Street & Penn Street
Looking North
towards
Penn Street

July 6, 2010

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100 Block of Penn Street
100 to 123 Penn Street
100 Block of Penn Street

The Cooper Mansion was purchased by the City of Camden in December of 1898, and became the city's first public par. The three-story building on the property became the first home of Camden Free Public Library. In the 1910s the old mansion was razed to make room for the Johnson Library and Johnson Park

Philadelphia Inquirer
December 1, 1898

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101 Penn Street

1917-1919 Mary C.R. Hutchison

Philadelphia Inquirer
April 23, 1919

  101 Penn Street

1943-1947
George Leary & Family
George & Ellen Leary
Herbert Leary - Clifford Leary
George Leary - Elmer Leary
Elma Leary

101 to 123 Penn Street
101 Penn Street
&
103 Penn Street

July 6, 2010

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  103 Penn Street
105 Penn Street
to
121 Penn Street

July 6, 2010

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105 Penn Street

1884-1888
William Abels

  105 Penn Street

1910s-1930s
Alexander J. Milliette

 

 

107 Penn Street

1906-1913
Robert S. Bender

107 Penn Street

1940
George Smith & Family
George & Ethel Smith

3 WITH GUNS GET $80 IN BROADWAY HOLDUP

Three men, two of them wearing handkerchiefs over their faces, held up a gasoline station attendant at Broadway and Lansdowne Avenue yesterday and escaped with $80, according to detectives.

The police said the men entered the place at 2 a.m. and pointed guns at Robert Horner, 17, of 107 Penn street. The man who did not have his face covered tried to hide his identity by holding his handkerchief to his face.

Horner told Detective Sergeant Gus Koerner two of the men were in their shirt sleeves while the third wore a tan coat. William Risley, of 1380 Lansdowne Avenue, watchman at a nearby bag factory, said he saw the men "acting suspiciously" in the neighborhood and telephoned police headquarters.

107 Penn Street

1941 Robert Horner

Camden Courier-Post
July 1, 1941

Broadway
Lansdowne Avenue
Penn Street
William Risley
Gus Koener

  109 Penn Street
  111 Penn Street
113 Penn Street

1935-1941
Horace J. Wood & Family
Horace & Hilda Wood
Leonard Wood

Camden Courier-Post
July 30, 1940 & March 12, 1941

  115 Penn Street
Many Thanks to Jose L. Sanchez
for researching this address from 1878 to 1968

1878- E. T. Lees
bookkeeper

1881-1883 DeWitt Clinton France
Shirt Manufacturer

115 Penn Street
Many Thanks to Jose L. Sanchez
for researching this address from 1878 to 1968

1884-1890
George W. Grant & Family
cigarmaker, saloonkeeper
George W. Grant
Douglass Grant
Wlliam H. Grant
Mrs. Ellen Tippin

1884 City Directory Ad

  115 Penn Street
Many Thanks to Jose L. Sanchez
for researching this address from 1878 to 1968

1891
Andrew G. Duncan & Family
bookkeeper
 Alexander & Grace Duncan
Andrew Duncan
William Duncan
Bessie Duncan
Augustine Duncan
1891 Peter Ballingal

bookkeeper

115 Penn Street
Many Thanks to Jose L. Sanchez
for researching this address from 1878 to 1968

1892-1901
Edward H. Davies & Family
bookkeeper
Edward & Elizabeth Davies
Ernest Davies
Evelyn Davies
Maud Davies
Hubert Davies

Philadelphia Inquirer
January 19, 1901

  115 Penn Street
Many Thanks to Jose L. Sanchez
for researching this address from 1878 to 1968

1901
Lewis D. Dilks & Family
livery worker
Lewis & Ellen DIlks
Anna B.V. "Jennie" Brant
clerk

115 Penn Street
Many Thanks to Jose L. Sanchez
for researching this address from 1878 to 1968

1901
Allen Brown Menges & Family
ticket collector
Allen Brown Menges
C. Earle Menges
John Menges

Allen Brown Menges, a widower, remarried on December 29, 1990. His new wife was Bertha Elizabeth "Lizzie" Boyer, daughter of local businessman George Boyer. They moved to 545 Haddon Avenue shortly after the wedding.

 

  115 Penn Street
Many Thanks to Jose L. Sanchez
for researching this address from 1878 to 1968

1901-1902
Daniel Huster & Family
barber
Daniel & Anna Huster

1902 John Swanson
engineer
1902 Elizabeth Coller
widow of Daniel Collar

  115 Penn Street
Many Thanks to Jose L. Sanchez
for researching this address from 1878 to 1968

1903-1904
Hannah Purdy & Family
widow of Cornelius Purdy
Camille A. Purdy
schoolteacher
Lena R. Purdy
schoolteacher

  115 Penn Street
Many Thanks to Jose L. Sanchez
for researching this address from 1878 to 1968

1905-1906
Naomi G. Turner Howell & Family
widow of Edward Howell
Katie Howell
clerk

1905-1906
John Muir
brakeman



115 Penn Street
Many Thanks to Jose L. Sanchez
for researching this address from 1878 to 1968

1907-1920
Thomas B. Fitzgerald & Family
Thomas B & Ida Fitzgerald
A Curtis Fitzgerald
Annie H. Bodine (Sister of Ida)

1920 Marion M Bodine

Top Left: 1906 City Directory Ad
Middle Left: 1917 City Directory Ad
Bottom Left: Philadelphia Inquirer
September 10, 1920

  115 Penn Street
Many Thanks to Jose L. Sanchez
for researching this address from 1878 to 1968

1921-1923
George Moodie & Family
Fire Marshall at Victor Talking Machine Company
George & Elizabeth Moodie

  115 Penn Street
Many Thanks to Jose L. Sanchez
for researching this address from 1878 to 1968

1924-1943
Emil Mutschler & Family 
bank janitor
Emil & Louise Mutschler
Louise Mutschler

  115 Penn Street
Many Thanks to Jose L. Sanchez
for researching this address from 1878 to 1968

By 1947 the building was converted into three apartments

1947 Richard B. & Bessie D. Huffnagle 
1947 Joseph & Carrie Welsh
1947 William F. & Nancy Whalen

My name is Jose Sanchez, I currently reside in Puerto Rico. We, the Sanchez clan grew up in Camden, specifically at 115 Penn Street, from the 50s to about 1968. My family returned to Puerto Rico while I was in the Army from 1968 to 1970. When I returned from Vietnam they were all living in Puerto Rico so I came here also. 

We are all proud of our years in Camden and it always comes up in our conversation. We are products not only of our ethnic or cultural upbringing or background but also of our neighborhood ties and relationships with that neighborhood, as they say "IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO RAISE A CHILD'.

Thus we the Sanchez family are glad and proud to have lived in Camden. There is where our childhood memories lie and our sense of being and belonging were engraved in us.

In reference to Miss Casselman's letter I would like to say that I know of them. We lived on 115 Penn Street, and were next door neighbors to the Gramleys, my father and Mr. Gramley would often talk baseball. The sister who had a hearing impediment was named Mary she worked I believe as a as a secretary.  She mentions the Norris sisters, one of them Grace was my 4th grade teacher [at Cooper-Grant School - PMC]. I am sending a class picture of that class and also of  my 3rd grade class. I could identify some of the students in the back of the picture, I feel bad that I could not ID some of them but I was surprised that I could remember so many "off the bat". 

I worked for awhile after school and Saturdays at the grocery store she mentions on Friends Avenue. I believe the owners at the time were named Herman and Frieda. She mentions Dr. Ruttenburg, I was born with a perforated eardrum and he was my Doctor, he operated on me (Skin Graft). She also mentions The West Jersey Title and Guarantee Co., when I graduated from Woodrow Wilson I worked there, (my first REAL JOB) as a office boy/messenger.

Jose Sanchez
July 2010

 

 

 

115 Penn Street
Many Thanks to Jose L. Sanchez
for researching this address from 1878 to 1968

mid-1950s-1968
The Sanchez Family

115 Penn Street
Many Thanks to Jose L. Sanchez
for researching this address from 1878 to 1968

mid-1950s-1968
The Sanchez Family

December 1958. Santa brought me the machine gun and I was forever known as Machine gun Kelly-Sanchez.

Jose Sanchez
December 2014

  117 Penn Street
  119 Penn Street
  121 Penn Street
  121 Penn Street
  123 Penn Street

Intersection of North 2nd Street & Penn Street
  Northeast Corner 
  Northwest Corner 
  1933 Ritchie & Hall

200 Block of Penn Street
200 to 218 Penn Street
200 Penn Street

1900s-1940s
The Robeson
apartments
aka Robeson House
aka Hotel Camden
aka Milner Hotel

Photo Circa 1905

200 Penn Street

1900s-1940s
Hotel Camden
aka The Robeson
aka Robeson House
aka Milner Hotel

Photo Circa 1920

 

200 Penn Street

1900s-1940s
The Robeson
a
partments

1904-1907
S. Conrad Ott

200 Penn Street

1950s
Milner Hotel
apartments

Max J. Schilling

Camden Courier-Post
January 16, 1956

201-A Penn Street
1950s Charles B. Edwards
  203 Penn Street
  205 Penn Street
  207 Penn Street
  209 Penn Street
211 Penn Street

1932
Charles & Annie Gross

Camden Courier-Post
June 13, 1932

  213 Penn Street
  214 Penn Street

1933 M. Rosenkranz

  215 Penn Street
  216 Penn Street

1933 Grand Tailoring Company

217 Penn Street

1896 Henry C. Alexander

Philadelphia Inquirer
June 23, 1896

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  217 Penn Street
  218 Penn Street
Intersection of Friends Avenue & Penn Street
  219 Penn Street

1892-1899
Francis F. Patterson Sr. & Family
Francis Ford & Catherine Patterson
Francis Ford Patterson Jr.
Theodore Patterson
Wolcott J. Patterson

  219 Penn Street

1956 Jane Beer
1956 Jean Beer

  220 Penn Street

1914
Frank Chandler & Family
deckhand
Frank & Helen Chandler.

  220 Penn Street

1924 John C. Voll Jr.

  220 Penn Street

1929 CADES APARTMENTS

  221 Penn Street

1919-1922
John Winton Jr. & Family
builder
John & Viola Winton
John Winton III
Frank M. Winton
Beatrice Winton

 


Intersection of North 3rd Street & Penn Street
   
   
   
   

300 Block of Penn Street
300 to 332 Penn Street
  300 Penn Street

1900s-1910s Dr. Edmund C.Pechin

300 Penn Street

1954 Angel M. Rodriguez

Camden Courier-Post
January 23, 1954

Fernando Reyes
Carman Street

 

  301 Penn Street

1929-1943 CADES APARTMENTS

327 Penn Street
Apartment 7

1943
Dominick J. Persiani & Family
Dominick J. & Carmela Persiani
Elma Persiani
Carol Persiani

  304 Penn Street

1900s-1910s D. Trueman Stackhouse

304 Penn Street

1900s-1920s Minerva C. Stackhouse

  308 Penn Street

1933 Dorothy Kurtz

309 Penn Street

1887-1911
Leander W. Goldy & Family
vice-president Anderson Preserving Co.
real estate

Leander W. & Julia Goldy
Martha Goldy

Philadelphia Inquirer
October 6, 1895

312 Penn Street

1933 Ellen D. Ryan

  313 Penn Street

1929 CADES APARTMENTS

316 Penn Street

1942 CAMDEN APARTMENTS
Frank G. Hitchener, President

1942 Mrs. Kathryn Dugan

  318 Penn Street

1929 CADES APARTMENTS

  319 Penn Street

1932 Charles Fanelli

  320 Penn Street

1929 CADES APARTMENTS

YOUNG WOMAN CLEARS HER ESCORT IN ATTACK

A young Camden woman insisted so strongly that her escort was not the man who struck her yesterday that detectives, after questioning him several hours, released him from custody and agreed to forget the whole thing.

The escort, Frank A. Lyons, 32, of 519 Bergen Street, Gloucester, was seized after Miss Betty Schaeffer, of 321 Penn Street, was found semiconscious at Broadway and Mickle Street.

She was taken to Cooper Hospital but returned to police headquarters several hours later to exonerate Lyons. She told detectives an unidentified man struck her shortly after she and Lyons left a bus at Broadway and Mickle Street.

Miss Schaeffer said she and Lyons "had an argument" on the bus and that when they got off, Lyons was walking ahead of her when some one struck her from behind.

321 Penn Street

1938 Betty Schaeffer

Camden Courier-Post
February 4, 1938

322 Penn Street

1902
William S. Townsend & Family
N.J. State Inspector of Food & Drugs
William S. & Nellie Townsend

Philadelphia Inquirer
December 25, 1902

322 Penn Street

1929 CADES APARTMENTS
1938 Frank Luggi
1938 Evelyn Buffo
1938 John E. Horay

Camden Courier-Post
February 23, 1938

Front Street
Spruce Street
Kaighn Avenue
Curtis Taylor Jr.

 

  322 Penn Street
EDWARD KELLEY

Funeral services will be held at 9 a. m. tomorrow at the Church of the Immaculate Conception for Edward Kelley, 7, of 324 Penn Street who died yesterday.  

324 Penn Street

1929 CADES APARTMENTS
1933 Edward Kelley

Camden Courier-Post
June 15, 1933

2 JAILED FOR BEGGING MONEY FROM AUTOISTS

Charged with being drunk and disorderly, James Kelly, 34, of 324 Penn Street, and Charles Murphy, 59, of 423 Stevens Street, were each sentenced to 60 days in jail Saturday by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast.

They were arrested at Eleventh and Linden streets yesterday on complaint of motorists who said the men would wait until a red light flashed and then walk into the street and ask for money.

324 Penn Street

1929 CADES APARTMENTS
1933 James Kelly

Camden Courier-Post
June 25, 1933

325 Penn Street

George Gerry White & Family
George G. & Josephine White

Philadelphia Inquirer
December 16, 1917

Centenary M.E. Church

INVITATIONS ISSUED

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Lamon, of 326 Penn Street, have issued invitations for the marriage of their daughter, Miss Hazel Ireme Lamon, to Charles W. Goodwin, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Goodwin, of Barnesboro, on Saturday, June 24, at 4 o'clock, in the Barnesboro M. E. Church. A reception at the Penn Street home will follow. 

326 Penn Street

1933 William J. Lamon & Family

Camden Courier-Post
June 1933

  327 Penn Street

1883-1933
Isaac & Josephine Doughten

328 Penn Street

Richard K. Aitken

Miss Clara Aitken, of 328 Penn street, will entertain this evening for the following members of her Sigma Delta Nu Sorority: Miss Mildred Schorpp, Miss Myrtle Schorpp, Miss Patsy Wilkinson, of Camden; Miss Harriet Albertson, Miss Katherine Kling, Miss Marie Bergdoll and Miss Inez Harris, of Philadelphia.

328 Penn Street

1930 Clara Aitken

Camden Courier-Post
March 29, 1930

338 Penn Street

1913-1914 James White

Camden Post-Telegram
January 2, 1914

331 Penn Street

1887-1910
Dr. Alexander Marcy & Family
Dr. Alexander & Hannah Mecray Marcy

Dr. Frederick WIlliamson Marcy
Dr. Frederick W. & Fannie Van Buren Marcy

Philadelphia Inquirer
December 12, 1914

332 Penn Street

1914 Charles P. Bowyer

Philadelphia Inquirer
December 12, 1914

William T. Boyle

  331 Penn Street

1930-1933 Dr. Charles Byron Lesher
1930-1933 Dr. Mabel Grier Lesher
1930-1933 Mabel Lesher

332 Penn Street

1914 Charles P. Bowyer

Philadelphia Inquirer
December 12, 1914

William T. Boyle

335 Penn Street

1914
Charles P. Bowyer

Philadelphia Inquirer
December 12, 1914

William T. Boyle
Linden Street
Andrew Miller - John Miller

   

Intersection of North 4th Street, Main Street, & Penn Street
   
 
   
   

400 Block of Penn Street
400 to 436 Penn Street
  400 Penn Street
  401 Penn Street

-1928 Edward Roberts

  406 Penn Street

-1923
F. Wayland Ayer

1909-1938
Wilfred W. Fry & Family
Wilfred W. & Anna Ayer Fry
Dena Fry
Eleanor Kemp Fry

1935 "The Cabin"

MARRIAGE LICENSES
CAMDEN

Randall Hunt Decker, Jr., 22, of 159 Park street, Montclair, and Eleanor Kemp Fry, 23, of 406 Penn street.

406 Penn Street

1938 Eleanor Kemp Fry

Camden Courier-Post
February 16, 1938

Mrs. Wilfred W. Fry and Miss Eleanor Fry, of 406 Penn street, are registered at the Chalfonte Haddon Hall, in Atlantic City.

406 Penn Street

Camden Courier-Post
February 16, 1938

406 Penn Street

October 31, 2005

406 Penn Street

October 31, 2005

406 Penn Street

October 31, 2005

406 Penn Street

October 31, 2005

Rev. and Mrs. John Pemberton, Jr. of the Centenary-Tabernacle parsonage, 409 Penn Street, will sail on Saturday aboard the S.S. Bremen for a month's tour abroad.

409 Penn Street

Centenary-Tabernacle M.E. Church
parsonage

Camden Courier-Post
June 19, 1933

411 Penn Street

1895 Mrs. A. Parker

Philadelphia Inquirer
May 23, 1895

411 Penn Street

1909-1953
Arno R. Neuber & Family
Arno R. & Rebecca G. Neuber
Arno R. Neuber Jr.

Camden Courier-Post
May 14, 1952

  413 Penn Street

1930 Mrs. Frances WIlmerton
1930 Mrs. Mary Brown
1930 Mrs. Margaret Thomson 
1947 Mitchell H. Cohen

415 Penn Street

1905
Henry Clay Watts & Family
Henry Clay & Hester P. McNeal Watts
Malcolm Stewart McNeal Watts

Camden Daily Courier
May 8, 1905

International Smokeless
Powder and Dynamite Company

 

 

415 Penn Street

1935-1957
Maurice G. Johnson & Family
Maurice & Marion Johnson
Marion Johnson
Walter W. Johnson (Father)

Camden Courier-Post
March 26, 1957

Joseph Youker
Frank Youker

 

 

421 Penn Street

1930 Mrs. Susan Pratt Stiles

Camden Courier-Post
April 14, 1930

  421 Penn Street

1947 Russell J. Anderson

427 Penn Street

1895 William A. Millar

Philadelphia Inquirer
May 23, 1895

429 Penn Street

Photo from March 1940

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  430 Penn Street

1900
Dr. George M. Beringer Sr.

  433 Penn Street

1900 Samuel A. Kilpatrick

 

433 Penn Street

1912
Alfred Cramer

1912
Alfred Cramer

Camden Post-Telegram
December 16, 1912

434 Penn Street

1910
Samuel A. Fitzpatrick & Family
Samuel A. & Carrie Chalfont Fitzpatrick

  436 Penn Street

Intersection of North 5th Street & Penn Street
  Penn Street

500 Block of Penn Street
500 to 548 Penn Street
  500 Penn Street

1920s-1930s
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
grocery

501 Penn Street

First Presbyterian Church

Reverend A.D. Whitney Jr.

501 Penn Street

First Presbyterian Church

1954

  506 Penn Street

1900s Charles M. Abrahamson

3 BOYS ARRESTED, ONE AS BURGLAR
Others Captured on Roof of Vacant House; Oldest 13

Three small boys were arrested last night as lawbreakers.

John Greely, 13, of 419 Cedar Street, charged with malicious mischief and breaking and entering, was arrested by Detective John Kaighn on complaint of Carl H. Brummer, of 629 Clinton Street, manager of an American Store at Fourth and Elm Streets, who said he found the boy hiding in the cellar of the store.

The other boys, Victor Linkletter, 13, and William Hoy, 12, both of 506 Penn Street, are charged with trespassing. They were arrested by Detective Sergeant Gustave Koerner and Detectives Kaighn and Frank Crawford, who from windows of the detective bureau in new city hall, said they saw the boys on the roof of a vacant three-story building at 427 Market Street.

Climbing up the rear of the building they said they cornered the boys hiding behind a chimney, apparently planning to enter the building.

All three will be arraigned in police court today.

506 Penn Street

1933 Victor Linkletter
1933 William Hoy

Camden Courier-Post
June 29, 1933

PLANE PILOT'S LICENSE 'GRANTED CAMDEN MAN

Washington, Feb. 7.-The Bureau of Air Commerce today announced the award of a private airplane pilot's license to Raymond F. Clancy, 27, of 508 Penn street, Camden, N. J It expires January 31, 1939.

508 Penn Street

1938 Raymond F. Clancy

Camden Courier-Post
February 8, 1938

510 Penn Street

1941
John Murray & Family

Camden Courier-Post
July 31, 1950

510 Penn Street

1950 Katherine O'Neill

Camden Courier-Post
December 29, 1950

Heber McCord

  513 Penn Street

1896
Wilson H. Jenkins
Wilson & Marzy Jenkins
lawyer, prosecutor

  516 Penn Street

1914
James Barr & Family
retired farmer
James & Mary Barr
Edward Barr
driver
Joseph Barr
Forman

My great-grandfather James F. Barr lived at 723 Penn Street in 1914 and he was a foreman for Garden State Dairies. He died in 1919 from Spanish influenza. My great great grandfather was James Barr who lived at 516 Penn Street and he was a retired farmer. My great-uncle Uncle Edward also lived at 516 Penn. I believe he was a milk wagon driver. My other great Uncle Joseph lived at 516 Penn also and was a foreman at Joseph Campbell Soup. 

Steve Barr
June 2012

'Dad, Won't You Come Back?' 

Mrs. Julia Joyce, of 516 Penn street, appealed to the Courier-Post and the police yesterday to aid in a search for her husband, Jesse, who disappeared from his home, last Saturday. Barbara, 5, and Stanley, 18 months, pictured above, join in the appeal for their missing parent's return. 

516 Penn Street

The Joyce Family

Camden Courier-Post
June 10, 1933

Family Is Destitute As Father Is Hunted 
North Camden Mother of Two Small Children Asks Aid
in Search for Husband Who Disappeared Last Saturday 

Within the modest walls of a small North Camden home a young mother and her two children stoically await the return of a missing husband and father. 

Left without light or food, the once happy family sits in quiet fortitude hoping against hope that each hour will return to them the one to whom they have always been able to turn. 

Faithfully and almost futilely trying to provide, food for her young ones, Mrs. Julia Joyce, 30, of 516 Penn Street, Thursday asked the police to find her missing husband, Jesse, 32.

He went out Saturday morning to try to get a job," she sobbed to Detective William Boettcher, of the missing persons bureau, "and I have not seen him since. The only food I have is that which is given to us by the relief and now that my husband is gone. I am afraid they will take our order away from us. 


     "Our gas and electric was shut off two weeks ago and I have been cooking on a coal range and using candles for light. I don't know who to turn to and I am so worried I don't know what I will do." 

The two children are Barbara, five, and Stanley, 18 months. The daughter is the child of another marriage. Mrs. Joyce married for the second time after a divorce from her first husband two years ago. 

"I don't see how Jesse could have done this to me and the children. It was hard getting along with him here but without him it looks still blacker. , 

"I have had to go to Cooper hospital for treatment since my husband left and the children are not in the best of health either. Ever since he lost his job in a restaurant six months ago, he has been discouraged and worried over how we would get along. 

"Through the kindness of the relief we have managed pretty well but right now it looks as though I am staring a blank wall in the face," 

Mrs. Joyce described her husband as being about five feet, 11 inches tall, of slender build, weighing about 138 pounds. He has dark brown hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a gray soft hat, a gray summer suit and black oxfords. He has a scar on the right hand and one on the right ear. 

Wife on Bus Spots Missing Husband Sitting in Park

The sharp eyes of Mrs. Julia Joyce, 30, of 516 Penn Street, resulted in the return of her missing husband yesterday.

Weeks after she reported his disappearance to the police, Mrs. Joyce saw her husband, Jesse, sitting in Franklin Square while she was riding on a bus.

  She alighted from the bus and persuaded her husband to return to their home where she and her two children have been trying to get along on a food order supplied by the city emergency.

  Joyce, after agreeing to return home, said that he left because he was worried over the financial affairs of his household.

516 Penn Street

The Joyce Family

Camden Courier-Post
June 24, 1933

 

  517 Penn Street

1880s-1890s
H.B. Hanford & Family
H.B. &
Alice Hanford

COURT SENDS GIRL, 15, TO HOME OF HER SISTER

One of the five children of Joseph White, a former Camden hotel proprietor, who have been county charges, found a home yesterday.

White, who lives at 517 Penn Street, was rebuked in police court by Judge Pancoast last week, for buying expensive clothing and wearing diamonds while his ten children were in need. Welfare workers said he failed to contribute to the support of the five children in homes here and in Trenton.

The recent hearing was a result of White bringing his 15-year-old daughter, Dorothy, into court as an incorrigible. The charge was disproved today in the opinion of Judge Samuel Shay, sitting in juvenile court. He granted the request of Dorothy's married sister, Mrs. Catherine Graham, of Magnolia, to have the girl live with her

517 Penn Street

Joseph White

Camden Courier-Post
October 21, 1931

 

517 Penn Street

1964
Harry N. Layer & Co.
optician

Camden Courier-Post
May 19, 1964

518 Penn Street

1897
Mrs. WIlliam Most

Philadelphia Inquirer
December 28, 1897

519 Penn Street

1913 Helen Chew

Camden Post-Telegram
June 13, 1913

May M. Bryan - John Cromie Jr.
Edwin C. Hall - Beethoven Club

TWO WOMEN EXILED BY LIBERMAN ORDER

Two young women were ordered to leave Camden by Police Judge Lewis Liberman yesterday when they were charged with disorderly conduct on a complaint made by Acting Detective John V. Wilkie.

Miss Dorothy Mendenhall, 24, and Miss Peggy Schultz, 24, both of whom gave addresses of 523 Penn Street, were arrested by Wilkie Saturday night after he received a complaint from a boarding house proprietor at the Penn street address.

Three men also were arrested as a result of the investigation made by Wilkie. Two were released with a warning while the third was fined $10.

Wilkie testified he went to the address in response to a radio call and was told by Mrs. Harry Barton, the proprietor, that Miss Mendenhall and Leonard Angelastro, 28, of 258 Pine Street, created a disturbance when she ordered them to move. The Schultz woman went to live in the room with Miss Mendenhall Wednesday, Wilkie said.

Wilkie testified both girls had been arrested before. Judge Liberman said if they were found in Camden again they would be given six months. Both girls denied that Angelastro lived at the room they occupied. Angelastro was fined $10.

523 Penn Street

1936 Mrs. Harry Barton
1936 Dorothy Mendenhall
1936 Peggy Schultz

Camden Courier-Post
February 17, 1936

 

527 to 537
Penn Street

October 31, 2005

 

529, 535, & 537
Penn Street

October 31, 2005

531 Penn Street

1926-1938
Abraham Browning Council 122
Junior Order
United American Mechanics

Photograph taken 1926

2005 Gone

 

531 Penn Street

1926-1938
Abraham Browning Council 122
Junior Order
United American Mechanics

Camden Courier-Post
February 23, 1938

 

531 Penn Street

1941
Washington Camp No. 117
Patriotic Sons of America

Camden Courier-Post
July 24, 1941

534 Penn Street

1897
Temple College Academy

Philadelphia Inquirer
May 22, 1897

George Wade
Engine Company 2
Jacob Kellum

535 Penn Street

1893-1910
Charles R. Bacon & Family
NJ editor, Philadelphia Record
Charles & Etta Bacon
Franklin F. Bacon

Camden Post-Telegram
March 9, 1908

535 & 537 Penn Street

October 31, 2005

535 & 537 Penn Street

October 31, 2005

536 Penn Street

1929
Mrs. Bertha Madera
boarding house
Frank Whitelaw

Camden Courier-Post
June 27, 1928

 

  542 Penn Street

1914
Ernest V. Chamberlin & Family
editor
Ernest V. & Mary E. Chamberlin
William H. Chamberlin
student

1947
Mrs. Adele E. Cox
widow of John Cox

  545 Penn Street

1927-1928 James O'Donnell

546 Penn Street

1970s-1980s Empire Securities Inc.

  548 Penn Street

Intersection of North 6th Street & Penn Street
Click on Images to Enlarge
 
Penn Street West of North 6th Street - 1912
Penn Street
West of North 6th Street

1954

 

Penn Street
West of North 6th Street

1954

 

Penn Street
West of North 6th Street

October 31, 2005

Penn Street
West of North 6th Street

October 31, 2005

  Southeast Corner

1929 North Camden Trust Co. 
1929 Michael Jubanyik
contractor
1929-1947 Kenworthy & Clark
Bennett Clark
law firm
General Radio Supply
1950s-1970

Destroyed by fire March 30, 1970

  1933 Publicity Delicatessen

600 Penn Street - The Miracle of Easter - March 30, 1970

***

Manpower of two Engine Companies get big line into service and give fire "a dash" from the street before attempting interior attack at Fourth Alarm, North 6th & Penn Streets, March 30, 1970.


Fourth Alarm for fire and collapse at electronics supply house, North 6th & Penn Streets, center city in March 1970. Scene depicts exterior operations at height of fire as heavy smoke vents from building. Roof and top floor of building collapsed trapping members of Engine Company 1

Members access basement and prepare to advance handline through sidewalk cellar doors during overhaul at Fourth Alarm, North 6th & Penn Streets- 3-30-1970


All hands anxiously await their turn on the inside during rescue operations following collapse of fire building on Easter Monday, March 1970. At time of collapse Engine 1 was operating handline on second floor while overhauling. Without warning roof and second floor pancaked into first floor and basement. Captain Phillip Maycott and Fire Fighters Alston, DeHart, Maroldo and Winters were buried amid tons of rubble. All members managed to extricate themselves except for "the Officer and the Probie".


Removed from ruins of collapse is Probationary Fire Fighter John Maroldo. Maroldo narrowly escaping certain death after being entombed for over an hour is seen shouting at members to "find my captain". 

Captain Vincent Orme, Engine Company 7 reassures Maroldo that continuing rescue operations are underway.


Captain Maycott as last member removed from collapse is carried to waiting ambulance. Units at scene breached walls and performed tunneling and shoring operations to reach trapped members. Both Maycott and Maroldo miraculously escaped with just bruises and sprains. Remaining members of Engine 1 were treated for cuts and scrapes following near catastrophe on March 30, 1970.


600 Block of Penn Street
600 to 618 Penn Street

 

600 Penn Street

1929 North Camden Trust Co. 
1929 Michael Jubanyik
contractor
1929-1947 Kenworthy & Clark
Bennett Clark
law firm
General Radio Supply
1950s-1970

Destroyed by fire March 30, 1970

FR. TURNER TO SPEAK AT RETREAT MEETING
Knights of Columbus Plan to Enroll 100 Here
in Laymen's Movement

The second meeting of the Camden Knights of Columbus Retreat Club will be held at their home, 603 Penn Street, tonight at 8-30 p. m.

The Knights are sponsoring the Laymen's Retreat movement in Camden and have set their goal at 100 men. The retreat will be held at San Alfonso Retreat House at West End, the weekend of July 23.

Tonight's meeting will be known as "East-Side night," and a delegation of men from St. Joseph's parish will welcome Father Joseph Turner, C. S. S. R., who will be the principal speaker.

Father Turner is one of the pioneers of the Laymen's Retreat movement in this country, being responsible for the establishment of the Retreat House at West End.

San Alfonso Retreat House was opened in 1927, with less than 50 laymen retreatants and has steadily grown each year. During the year of 1937 a total of 1800 retreatants was reached. Much of this progress is due to the efforts of Father Turner, who was the Retreat master for a period of more than two years.

Past Grand Knight Reynolds is the Retreat captain.

603 Penn Street

1938 Camden Knights of Columbus
Retreat Club

Camden Courier-Post
February 7, 1938

617 Penn Street

1915
Frank Miller & Family

Philadelphia Inquirer
December 23, 1912

Click on Image for PDF File
of Complete Article

   

Intersection of Broadway & Penn Street
  Southwest Corner

1929 North Camden Trust Co. 
1929 Michael Jubanyik
contractor
1929-1947 Kenworthy & Clark
Bennett Clark
law firm
General Radio Supply
1950s-1970

Destroyed by fire March 30, 1970


600 Block of Penn Street
622 to 646 Penn Street
622 Penn Street

1955
Camden Foundation Co., Inc

1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone
Yellow Pages Ad

622 Penn Street

1955
Penn Jersey Detective Agency

1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone
Yellow Pages Ad


632 Penn Street

1947-1959
Spiros Vallianos & Family
Owner of Garden State Restaurant
at 224 North Broadway

Spiros & Helen Vallianos
Gregory Vallianos
Helen Vallianos

Camden Courier-Post
November 27, 1959
&
November 28, 1959

  634 Penn Street

1957-1970s Dr. Jose A. Sosa

  636 Penn Street

1917-1927
Edward A. Preisendanz & Family
Edward & Claudia Preisendanz
Annie Preisendanz

638 Penn Street

1922-1924
 George P. Landwehr & Family
George P. & Alida Landwehr
Mrs. Pauline Landwehr

The shower given to Mrs. Martha Weber in June of 1922. She gave birth to a son, Carl W. Weber, in August.

638 Penn Street

1955
D.A. Henderson & Compnay

1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone
Yellow Pages Ad

  646 Penn Street

Intersection of North 7th Street & Penn Street
 

 

Looking North - July 16, 1965
Photo By Bob Bartosz
   

703 Block of Penn Street
703 to 731 Penn Street
701 Penn Street

1904-1925
Louis C. Coates & Family
music teacher
Louis & Sarah Coates

Philadelphia Inquirer
January 17, 1910

703 to 731 Penn Street

Aerial Photo - July 16, 1965
Photo By Bob Bartosz

  703 Penn Street
706 Penn Street

1909-1940
Frank Parker & Family
locomitive engineer
Frank & Ellen "Nellie" Parker
Helen Parker - Gertrude Parker
Mary Parker - Frank PArker

Camden Post-Telegram
January 25, 1915

  710 Penn Street

1915-1917
Mrs. Mary Sherman

'In the Money'

MRS. MARION BLACK

Waitress, of 711 Penn street, Camden, who holds a ticket on Zingaro, an entry In the Irish Hospital  Sweepstakes and a chance to win $147,000. Even if her entry does not run Mrs, Black is certain of collecting; $1828

711 Penn Street

1935 Mrs. Marian Black

Camden Courier-Post
October 29, 1935

711 Penn Street

1956 Emily Magee

Camden Courier-Post
February 2, 1956

Etta Pfrommer
North 31st Street
Bessie Griffith
Newton Avenue

  712 Penn Street

1941
Wilfred Dube Jr. & Family

712 Penn Street

William W.L. Dube

713 Penn Street

1952 Frank Burton

Philadelphia Inquirer
February 2, 1952

Camden Lodge No. 293
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks

715 Penn Street

1952 Edmund Bossett

Philadelphia Inquirer
April 2, 1952

716 Penn Street

1947
Wilfred Dube Jr. & Family
Wilfred J. & Henrietta Dube
Henrietta Dube

November 18, 1947

  717 Penn Street

1947-1952 Austin Stevenson

  719 Penn Street

1947-1952 William J. Hartman

  723 Penn Street

1914-1915
James F. Barr & Family
James F. & Ellen Barr

My great-grandfather James F. Barr lived at 723 Penn Street in 1914 and he was a foreman for Garden State Dairies. He died in 1919 from Spanish influenza. My great great grandfather was James Barr who lived at 516 Penn Street and he was a retired farmer. My great-uncle Uncle Edward also lived at 516 Penn Street. I believe he was a milk wagon driver. My other great Uncle Joseph lived at 516 Penn Street also and was a foreman at Joseph Campbell Soup. 

Steve Barr
June 2012

  725 Penn Street

1933 Samuel & Mabel Ermelious

  727 Penn Street

1932 Rayfield Hartman

  731 Penn Street
   

Intersection of North 8th Street & Penn Street
   
Looking North - July 16, 1965
Photo By Bob Bartosz
   

800 Block of Penn Street
800 to 898 Penn Street
  800 Penn Street
805 Penn Street

1955
B & B Cleaners & Launderers

1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone
Yellow Pages Ad

  809 Penn Street

1924
Anson Kelley & Family
Camden Police Department
Anson & Mary Carle Kelley
Anson James Kelley

  811 Penn Street
817 Penn Street

1947-1952
Joseph V. Todd & Family
Joseph & Doris Todd
Allen L. Todd
- Joseph Todd
Albert Todd - Robert Todd
William Todd - Evelyn Todd
Florence Todd - Anna Todd

  821 Penn Street

1911
Isaac Anderson

821 Penn Street

1932-1933
Edward S. Scheflen

Camden Courier-Post
June 3, 1932

  832 Penn Street

1920s
Charles J. Fox

833 Penn Street

1901-1905
James Truman Robertson & Family
James T. & Annie Robertson
Truman Christie Robertson - Lizzie Robertson
Agnes Robertson - Mary Robertson
Josephine Robertson

Camden Post-Telegram
September 16, 1905

835 Penn Street

1882-1888
Amedee S. Middleton & Family
Amedee & Mary Middleton
Rena Middleton

Left: Amedee S. Middleton

837 Penn Street

1890-1892
Amedee S. Middleton & Family
Amedee & Mary Middleton
Rena Middleton

Left: Amedee S. Middleton

  888 Penn Street

1894-1898
Samuel Kesler

  898 Penn Street

1933
Pio Marozzi

  898 Penn Street

1955
Branco's Delicatessen

1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone
Yellow Pages Listing


Intersection of North 9th Street & Penn Street
   

900 Block of Penn Street
900 to 946 Penn Street
  900 Penn Street

Car Hits Standard

Mrs. Margaret A. Wagner, 26, of 906 Penn street, suffered bruises of both legs when a car driven by her husband, William H. Wagner, 29, struck a traffic standard at Third Street and Cooper Streets as he was attempting to turn the corner.

900 Penn Street

Camden Courier-Post
February 7, 1938

  901 Penn Street
902 Penn Street

1917
John J. Callahan & Family

Philadelphia Inquirer
March 15, 1917

Philip Knauff

  902 Penn Street
  903 Penn Street
  904 Penn Street
  905 Penn Street
  906 Penn Street
  907 Penn Street
  908 Penn Street
909 Penn Street

1952
Thomas P. Bibighaus Sr. & Family
Thomas P. & Pauline Bibighaus
Thomas P. Bibighaus Jr.
Joseph C. Bibighaus

Camden Courier-Post
April 2, 1952

  910 Penn Street
  911 Penn Street
  912 Penn Street
  913 Penn Street
  914 Penn Street
  915 Penn Street
916 Penn Street

1917
George Collett & Family

Philadelphia Inquirer
February 9, 1917

DEMOCRATS MEET MONDAY

There will be a meeting of the Second Ward Democratic Club at 8 p. m. Monday at 916 Penn street. There will be two prominent Democratic speakers present.

916 Penn Street

Second Ward Democratic Club

Camden Courier-Post
June 3, 1933

SECOND WARD CLUB HEARS ALBERT MARVEL

Party loyalty was stressed last night at a meeting of the Second Ward Democratic Club by Albert S. Marvel, new chairman of the Camden County Democratic Committee.

He expressed optimism over the outcome of the coming campaign. He offered his time and services to the club. The club decided to hold a river excursion in July and a block party in August.

916 Penn Street

Second Ward Democratic Club

Camden Courier-Post
June 6, 1933

  917 Penn Street
  918 Penn Street
  918 Penn Street
919 Penn Street

1920-1962
John B. Prucella & Family
Camden Fire Department
John & Hattie Prucella
Raymond Prucella
Elizabeth Prucella

Camden Courier-Post
October 1, 1962

Camden Lodge 111, Loyal Order of Moose

921 Penn Street

Built in 1899

Photograph Taken March 13, 2012

921 & 923 Penn Street

Photograph Taken March 13, 2012

  922 Penn Street

1901-1950
Cornelius Healy & Family
Cornelius & Isabelle Healy
John F. Healy

923 Penn Street

Photograph Taken March 13, 2012

Walter T. Ridgeway, of 924 Penn Street, reported the theft of a heater and radio speaker from his automobile while it was parked in his garage on Twelfth Street near Lawrence. Ridgeway said the lock on the garage had been forced.

924 Penn Street

1938 Walter T. Ridgeway

Camden Courier-Post
February 7, 1938

925 Penn Street

Photograph Taken March 13, 2012

  925 Penn Street

1917-1930s
John H. Andrus & Family

  925 Penn Street

1934-1944
Daniel S. Moore & Family
Margaret Mary Moore
Peter Joseph Moore
Joseph Vincent Moore

  925 Penn Street

Private Joseph Vincent Moore

  925 Penn Street

1934-1946
Daniel S. Moore & Family
Margaret Mary Moore
Peter Joseph Moore
Joseph Vincent Moore

925 & 927 Penn Street

Photograph Taken March 13, 2012

  926 Penn Street
927 Penn Street

Photograph Taken March 13, 2012

  928 Penn Street
929 Penn Street

Photograph Taken March 13, 2012

929 & 931 Penn Street

Photograph Taken March 13, 2012

  930 Penn Street
931 Penn Street

Photograph Taken March 13, 2012

932 Penn Street

1904
George Alexander & Family
George & Anna Alexander
Raymond S. Alexander

Philadelphia Inquirer
September 22, 1904

Martin L. EIsenberg
Ann ELiza Eisenberg

  932 Penn Street
933 Penn Street

1917-1953
Howard M. Smith & Family
Camden Police Department
Howard M. & Helen G. Smith
Howard K. Smith
George Smith
Laura V. Smith
Elsie Janice Smith

933 Penn Street

1917-1953
Howard M. Smith & Family
Camden Police Department
Howard M. & Helen G. Smith
Howard K. Smith
George Smith
Laura V. Smith
Elsie Janice Smith

World War I Draft Card

933 Penn Street

Photograph Taken March 13, 2012

933 & 935 Penn Street

Photograph Taken March 13, 2012

  934 Penn Street

1895-1899 William W. Pattterson
Camden Fire Department

935 Penn Street

Photograph Taken March 13, 2012

936 Penn Street

1890-1897
Charles C. Old & Family
Charles C. & Emma J. Old
Ethel C. Old
Edgar L. Old

936 Penn Street

1890-1897
Charles C. Old & Family
Charles C. & Emma J. Old
Ethel C. Old
Edgar L. Old

933 Penn Street

1915-1926
Walter Smith & Family
Camden Police Department
Walter & Elizabeth Smith
Augustus Hamilton Smith

World War I Draft Card

937 Penn Street

Photograph Taken March 13, 2012

Woman, 75, Hurt On Stairway
Lies 8 Hours Senseless

A North Camden woman is in Cooper Hospital suffering from injuries received when she fell down stairs and lay unconscious for more than eight hours.

Mrs. Clara Clayton, 75, of 937 Penn Street, was found unconscious yesterday by her son, Richard Prickett, a watchman at State Street bridge, at Cooper River, who returned from duty at 7 a.m. 

Prickett telephoned to police headquarters and the First district ambulance took the injured woman to the hospital, where she was found to have suffered bruises of the head and body and possible concussion of the brain. .

937 Penn Street

Mrs. Clara Clayton
Richard Prickett

Camden Courier-Post
June 13, 1933

937 & 939 Penn Street

Photograph Taken March 13, 2012

  938 Penn Street
939 Penn Street

Photograph Taken March 13, 2012

939 Penn Street

Built in 1899

Photograph Taken March 13, 2012

Scheduled for Demolition in March of 2012

  940 Penn Street
941 Penn Street

Built in 1899

Photograph Taken March 13, 2012

942 Penn Street

1955
Collins Refrigeration Service

1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone
Yellow Pages Ad

Click on Image to Enlarge


942 Penn Street

1955
Collins Refrigeration Service

Camden Courier-Post
November 25, 1955

  944 Penn Street

1936-1947
John W. Rowley & Family
John W. & Helen Rowley
Edward A. Rowley
Thomas J. Rowley
Robert F. Rowley
James M. Rowley 
Edith Rowley Rehrig
Florence Rowley Grimes
Catherine Rowley

Camden Courier-Post
January 18, 1952

944 Penn Street

1952
Mrs. Helen Govaert

Camden Courier-Post
January 18, 1952

946 Penn Street

1919-1931
Mrs. L. Virginia Jones

Camden Courier-Post
August 25, 1931

  946 Penn Street

1933 Steinberg's Pharmacy


Intersection of North 10th Street & Penn Street
  Penn Street

1000 Block of Penn Street
1001 to 1013 Penn Street
  1000 Penn Street

Built After 1905
2011 Gone

  1001 Penn Street

1933 Lepp Company

THREE MEN NABBED IN NORTH CAMDEN ROW
One Gets 60 Days for Attack on Plain Clothes Cop

Three young men were found guilty of disorderly conduct in police court this morning when they were charged with creating a disturbance In front of a restaurant near Sixth and Market streets.

Fiore Rossi, 23 years old, 329 Mickle Street, brother of ‘Pee Wee’ Rossi, local pugilist, was sentenced to 60 days in the county jail. Thomas O’Neill, 22 years old, 204 Berkley Street, was fined $20 and sentence was suspended on John Develin, 21 years old, 1002 Penn Street.

Rossi was charged with severely beating August Fortune, a policeman assigned to special duty at the restaurant.

Patrolman Fred Mueller testified that at 3:30 o’clock Sunday morning he had told the men to “move on” from Fifth and Market Streets when he found them creating a disturbance. The men walked away and in front of the restaurant again became boisterous. Moeller and policeman Marshall Thompson then arrested O’Neill who had become “sassy”. The other two objected to the arrest, and when Fortune came from inside the building to assist his brother officers, he was struck in the face and knocked down by Rossi. The three succeeded in taking the men to headquarters.

Rossi this morning admitted hitting Fortune but said he did not know he was an officer and “thought he was a wise guy trying to go big with a woman’.

1001 Penn Street

1927- 1928 John Devlin

Camden Courier-Post
January 2, 1928

  1002 Penn Street

Built After 1905
2011 Gone

  1003 Penn Street

Built After 1905
2011 Gone

  1004 Penn Street

Built After 1905
2011 Gone

1005 Penn Street

Built in 1899

1906 Mrs. Ella Vanhart

Photograph Taken October 16, 2011

Click on Image to Enlarge

1005 & 1007
Penn Street

Photograph Taken October 16, 2011

Click on Image to Enlarge

  1006 Penn Street

Built After 1905
2011 Gone

1007 Penn Street

Photograph Taken October 16, 2011

Click on Image to Enlarge

  1008 Penn Street

Built After 1905
2011 Gone

1008 & 1010
Penn Street

1938 Norman K. Hubbard
1938 Vinnie C. Martin

Camden Courier-Post
February 19, 1938

1009 Penn Street

Photograph Taken October 16, 2011

Click on Image to Enlarge

1009 Penn Street

1900s-1918
Elmer E. Burkett & Family
Elmer E. & Maggie Burkett
Marie Burket
Florence Burkett

Philadelphia Inquirer
June 11, 1913

Lawrence Street

 
1009 Penn Street

 

1906-1918
Elmer E. Burkett
& Family
Elmer E. & Maggie Burkett
Marie Burket
Florence Burkett

1009 & 1011
Penn Street

Photograph Taken October 16, 2011

Click on Image to Enlarge

  1010 Penn Street

Built After 1905
2011 Gone

3 SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN DROWNING OF MAN

A mother's persistent entreaties that the Camden police further investigate the death of her son resulted yesterday in the arrest of two women and a man on suspicion of manslaughter.

The arrests were made by City Detective George Zeitz in connection with the drowning Saturday night a week ago of Briggs Miller, 26, colored, of 2820 Mitchell street. The body was found last Monday in Cooper creek at the head of Twelfth street.

Since the death of her son, Mrs. Sallie Robinson, twice married, communicated with the police several times, telling of her suspicion that her boy was pushed from a boat.

Under arrest are Regina Ganges, 32, of 1011 Penn street; Shetta Johnson, 37, of 311 Chester street, and Solomon Waples, 33, of 2820 Mitchell street, all colored.

1011 Penn Street

Regina Ganges

Camden Courier-Post
August 8, 1933

1011 Penn Street

Built in 2000s

Photograph Taken October 16, 2011

Click on Image to Enlarge

1011 Penn Street

Photograph Taken October 16, 2011

Click on Image to Enlarge

  1012 Penn Street

Built After 1905

1918
John B. Prucella & Family
Camden Fire Department
John & Hattie Prucella
Raymond Prucella
Elizabeth Prucella

2011 Gone

  1013 Penn Street

Intersection of Chester Street & Penn Street
Click on Images to Enlarge
  Penn Street
Northwest Corner - October 16, 2011
Looking North on Chester Street - October 16, 2011
Northeast Corner - October 16, 2011
   
   

1000 Block of Penn Street
1014 to 1027 Penn Street
  1014 Penn Street

Built After 1905

1911-1917
John B. Prucella & Family
Camden Fire Department
John & Hattie Prucella
Raymond Prucella
Elizabeth Prucella

2011 Gone

1015 Penn Street

1906 Isaac Anderson

2011 Gone

  1016 Penn Street

Built After 1905

1912-1923
Anson Kelley & Family
Camden Police Department
Anson & Mary Carle Kelley
Anson James Kelley

  1016 Penn Street

2011 Gone

1017 Penn Street

Built in 1879

-2011
Vivian Gaddis

Photograph Taken October 16, 2011

Click on Image to Enlarge

1017 Penn Street

-2011
Vivian Gaddis

  1018 Penn Street

Built After 1905
2011 Gone

1019 Penn Street

1894
Benjamin Middleton

2011 Gone

1019 Penn Street

1894-1895
John W. Vanhart
John & Ella Vanhart
Mary Vanhart

2011 Gone

1020 Penn Street

1951 Augusta S. Dickinson

Camden Courier-Post
September 15, 1951

Harry L. Archie

1021 Penn Street

1899 Harold Cronce

Philadelphia Inquirer
November 17, 1899

John Haas - Joseph Nowrey
Andrew Lyons - E.A. Armstrong
Willard Street

  1021 Penn Street

2011 Gone

  1022 Penn Street

Built After 1905
2011 Gone

SLEEPING MAN NABBED

Samuel Boykin, 39, of 1022 Penn Street, was arrested on a drunk and disorderly charge last night after police found him asleep in. his car parked in a bus zone at Tenth and Penn streets. He was held in $15 security for a hearing today.

1022 Penn Street

1933 Samuel Boykin

Camden Courier-Post
June 15, 1933

NAP IN PARKED AUTO BRINGS 30 DAYS IN JAIL

Because Samuel Boykin, 29, of 1022 Penn Street, insisted on sleeping in an automobile parked in a restricted area, he will pass the next 30 nights in jail. Police Judge Pancoast, in sending Boykin to jail on a charge of being drunk and disorderly, also indicated he would spend the same number of days in jail.

Motorcycle Policeman Walter Vecander testified he went to Broadway and Market street on complaint of a motorist who said a man was sleeping in his car. Boykin was taken to police headquarters but released when the motorist refused to sign a complaint. 

Fifteen minutes later Boykin was sound asleep in the same automobile, Vecander said. Boykin admitted he had been drinking but denied he had been driving while intoxicated or that he was disorderly. A charge of illegal parking was dismissed.. 

1022 Penn Street

1933 Samuel Boykin

Camden Courier-Post
June 16, 1933

1023 Penn Street

1900
Isaac Anderson

2011 Gone

1024 Penn Street

Built After 1905

1920
David R. Ellis

  1025 Penn Street

1938 Floyd Lancaster
2011 Gone

  1026 Penn Street

Built After 1905
2011 Gone

2011 Gone
1027 Penn Street

1891-1892
William J. Maguire

 

  1027 Penn Street

1912 Mrs. Anne Baxter & Sons
Anne Baxter
David James Baxter
William Baxter


Intersection of Summit Street & Penn Street
  Penn Street

1000 Block of Penn Street
1028 to 1041 Penn Street
  1028 Penn Street

Built After 1905
2011 Gone

  1029 Penn Street

2011 Gone

1030 Penn Street

Built After 1905

1910-1914
Bertram Billsborough & Family
Bertram & Ida Franckle Billsborough
Lewis Lee Billsborough
Bertha Billsborough
Olga Billsborough

Philadelphia Inquirer
March 25, 1915

Mitchell Kane
Charles V.D. Joline
Sidney Jones
George W. Frost
Trenton Avenue

  1030 Penn Street

2011 Gone

1031 Penn Street

1933 Harry Davis

Camden Courier-Post
August 12, 1933

 

  1031 Penn Street

2011 Gone

  1032 Penn Street

Built After 1905
2011 Gone

  1033 Penn Street

2011 Gone

  1034 Penn Street

Built After 1905
2011 Gone

  1035 Penn Street

2011 Gone

  1036 Penn Street

Built After 1905
2011 Gone

  1037 Penn Street

2011 Gone

  1038 Penn Street

Built After 1905
2011 Gone

  1039 Penn Street

2011 Gone

  1041 Penn Street

2011 Gone

   

Intersection of North 11th Street & Penn Street
   

1100 Block of Penn Street
1100 to 1199 Penn Street
  1102 Penn Street

1947 Dick's Mobil Service

1109 Penn Street

1916
Anson Heiser

Philadelphia Inquirer
March 17, 1916

Lawrence Street
John Minneg
O. Glen Stackhouse
Charles H. Fitzsimmons

1111 Penn Street

Private Frank Henry Valentine

  1111 Penn Street

1910s-1920s
Mrs. Catherine Valentine & Family
Mrs. Catherine Valentine
Frank Henry Valentine
John Valentine

  1113 Penn Street

1910 James Baxter Family
James & Anne Baxter
David James Baxter
William Baxter

1113 Penn Street

1887
Edward Jubb

1128 Penn Street

1913 Mrs. May Sherlock

Philadelphia Inquirer
September 4, 1913

May Sherlock - Penn Street
Cooper Hospital
George Lehman -
Carpenter Street
Frank Sapp

Charles G. Garrison
Walnut Street
Ethel McCormick - Mary Mistral
Sycamore Street - Kostanty Ostrowski

1129 Penn Street

1914 Frank H. Smith
1914-1915 Mary Facht

Philadelphia Inquirer
November 11, 1914

BUS JUMPER JAILED

Arrested by George Jefferis, a motorcycle policeman, to break his mania for jumping on the back of buses, Samuel Harper, colored, 21, of 1136 Penn street, yesterday was sentenced by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast to 30 days in jail in default of a $25 fine. 

1136 Penn Street

1933 Samuel Harper

Camden Courier-Post
June 17, 1933

1140 Penn Street

1909-1910
Edward James & Family
Edward & May James
Florence Hirst (boarder)

Camden Daily Courier
August 22, 1910

Click on Image to Read
the
Complete News Article

 

1141 Penn Street

1918-1919
Walter Sparks & Family
Walter & Sara Sparks
Walter Sparks

Philadelphia Inquirer
January 16, 1919

 

  1147 Penn Street

1900-1901
Franz "Frank" Breininger & Family
Frank & Sophie Goehringer Breininger
Anna Goehringer
Mary Goehringer
George Goehringer
Harry Goeringer

  1150 Penn Street

1900s-1910s W.W. & Isabella Ross
1900s-1910s Everett W. Staley

  1152 Penn Street

1929 George Nicktern

  1153 Penn Street

1947 Christian C. Miller
gas station

1157 Penn Street

1912 James Kelly

Philadelphia Inquirer
December 23, 1912

Charles Fitzsimmons
Frank Lee Dickinson

Click on Image for PDF File
of Complete Article

1159 Penn Street

1943 No Listing

1947-1960s
Camden Auto Body Company
Ralph Martinis & Harry Marishak

1955
New Jersey Bell Telephone Directory
Yellow Pages Ad

POLICE ASKED TO HUNT 2 MOORESTOWN GIRLS

Camden police last night were asked to assist in the search for Julia Paoli, 20, and her sister, Gilda, 18, who have been missing from their home, 214 Mill Street, Moorestown, for the past two years.

The request came from relatives of the girls on behalf of their mother, Mrs. Marguerite Juliana, who is seriously ill at the Mill street address.

The sisters left home after an argu­ment with their stepfather, Joseph Juliana. A sister, Mrs. Valerie Brooks lives at 1170 Penn Street.

1170 Penn Street

Mrs. Valerie Brooks

Camden Courier-Post
March 25, 1930

  1170 Penn Street

1947 James R. Mathes

1180 Penn Street

Robert L. Thomas

  1189 Penn Street

1947 William T. Morton

  1189-1/2 Penn Street

1947 Harvey R. Dunn

  1190 Penn Street

1947 Robert W. Shelton

  1191 Penn Street

1947 Mrs. Gertrude Parker

  1191-1/2 Penn Street

1947 Nathaniel M. Pheonix

My mother, 3 siblings and I moved to Camden in February 1954: 312 Summit Street in North Camden, a small street sandwiched between 10th and 11th Penn Street. Went to the old Clara S. Burrough Jr. High on Haddon Avenue. In 1955, we moved to 1191-1/2 Penn Street, again in North Camden, directly behind Admiral Wilson Blvd.

Summit Street reminded me of photos I had seen of Hiroshima after the bomb. There were no more than 3 or 4 houses. Ours was the only one with an indoor facility. The rest of the street was rubble (bricks) from homes that had been demolished, a few cars parked but the scene was bleak. We were delighted to move.

 

George Kennedy
April 2010

1191-1/2 Penn Street

1954-1955
The Kennedy Family

  1192 Penn Street

1947 James Barnes

1193 Penn Street

Julius Taylor

Philadelphia Inquirter
March 10, 1899

Joseph Maxwell
Samuel S. Elfreth
Henry L. Bonsall
David Baird Sr.
George M. Beringer

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  1193 Penn Street

1947 Teagle Fleming

  1193-1/2 Penn Street

1947 Mrs. Ada Brown

  1194 Penn Street

1933 Sarah Stone
1947 No Return

1956
Herbert Micklin & Family
Herbert & Ida Micklin
grocery

  1195 Penn Street

1947 Mrs. Willa A. McCall

  1195-1/2 Penn Street

1938 Robert Payton
1947 James A. Young

1196-1198 Penn Street

Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church

Photo from 2007

  1199 Penn Street

1947 Lee Beverly


Intersection of North 12th Street & Penn Street
   

Penn Street & Linden Street
Camden Courier-Post * July 26, 1941

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