Streets
of
Camden, NJ

Riley
Street


RILEY STREET ran south from 419 Washington Street for one block to Berkley Street. There were ten two story brick rowhouses on Riley Street, five to each side, numbered 431 to 440. The E.A. Stevens School's lot backed against the houses on the east side of Riley Street. 

Camden City Directories as far back as 1875 show listings on Riley Street. By 1947 only four houses were standing. The 1969 New Jersey Bell Telephone Directory shows one house, 436 Riley Street, still occupied, and the party that had the telephone had moved by October of 1970. It is possible that the last house on Riley Street fell victim to the rioting of 1969.

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

 Phil Cohen
Friday, November 30, 2018

Riley Street
Sanborn Map Published in 1891

The map was published with the image at left at a 90 degree angle. Thus, please note that Berkley Street is to the south, and Washington Street is to the north.


Intersection of Washington Street & Riley Street

   
   
   
   


400 Block of Riley Street

 

431 Riley Street

1877 Edwin Carles
1878 Samuel String
1880 Robert WIble
1900 Charles Kauffman
1904 Adolph Schick
1908-1924 Malachi Adams
1921-1930 Henry Hughes
1930 Samuel Booker

431 Riley Street

1947-1950
Jack Bush & Family
Jack & Rosetta Collier Bush
Janie Woodard-Bush 
William Bush
Mozell Bush

431 Riley Street

1947-1950
Jack Bush & Family
Jack & Rosetta Collier Bush
Janie Woodard-Bush 
William Bush
Mozell Bush

1955 Senatus Lodge 76, IOOF
 care of William Dreher

Camden Courier-Post
March 17, 1955

RILEY IS A GOOD NAME to mention today - St. Patrick's day - but this structure at 431 Riley Street is nothing the Irish could brag about. Neither can Camden City, which condemned this property on April 28, 1954 as "flagrantly unsafe, unsanitary and a grave fire hazard." City records list the owner as Senatus Lodge 76, IOOF care of William Dreher, of 832 Elm Street. Built in 1875, this two-story home once "boasted" of an outside toilet and a dirt basement

 

432 Riley Street

1947 Gone

433 Riley Street

1885
Edward Jubb

Camden Fire Department

2 ARRESTED AS POLICE SEIZE STILL IN HOME

Samuel Thompson, 70, and his brother, Henry, 57, of 433 Riley Street, were arrested late last night when police raided their home and seized a 150-gallon still and a quantity of mash.

They were held for violation of the city disorderly house ordinance and will be arraigned in police court today. The raid was made by Lieutenant Herbert Anderson and Detectives Walter Smith, John Trout and Harry Kyler.


BROTHERS, 60 AND 57, JAILED IN STILL RAID

Samuel Thompson, 60, and his brother, Henry, 57, both of 433 Riley street, were sentenced to jail for 90 days by Police Judge Pancoast yesterday when they were unable to pay tines of $100 which were imposed on charges of operating a still.

The brothers were arrested Monday night following a raid on their home in which police seized a 150-gallon still and a quantity of mash. They pleaded guilty.

433 Riley Street

1933 Samuel Thompson
1933 Henry Thompson

Camden Courier-Post
June 6, 1933 & June 7, 1933

 

 

433 Riley Street

1947 Wilber Sedden

434 Riley Street

1875
William H. Doughten
Camden Fire Department

 

434 Riley Street

1947 Gone

 

435 Riley Street

1947 Gone

 

436 Riley Street

1947 Herman D. Jordan
1969 J.A. Washington

 

437 Riley Street

1887
William C. DuBell & Family
teamster, working at Volney Bennett's lumber yard
William C. & Sarah DuBell
Charles G. DuBell

 

437 Riley Street

1947 Gone

 

438 Riley Street

1876-1878
John R. Coulter Jr.
painter

438 Riley Street

1914 Mrs. Ethel White

Philadelphia Inquirer
April 1, 1914

West Jersey Hospital
Lawrence Doran

 

438 Riley Street

1947 John Goodman

439 Riley Street

1880
James Stanton & Family
James & Emma Stanton
Walter A. "Weep" Stanton

 

Left: Walter A. "Weep" Stanton

439 Riley Street

1884 Peter Giebler

Philadelphia Inquirer
April 27, 1884

 

439 Riley Street

1947 Gone

 

440 Riley Street

1947 Gone


Intersection of Berkley Street & Riley Street

   
   
   
   

Camden Courier-Post * June 9, 1950
Rescue Company 1
William Bush
Riley Street
Washington Street
Thomas Brown
Raymond Hickman
Dennis Conway
Fern Street
Harry Wagner
Dr. Llewelyn Hunsicker
Scott Smith Cadillac
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