Camden Streets - Taylor Avenue

TAYLOR AVENUE, known in earlier times as Taylor's Avenue, was already laid out when Camden's first City Directory was published in 1850. It ran from South Front Street to 8 Hudson Street, just south of Federal Street. There were a few businesses, most notable perhaps the ketchup factory of F.P. Lawson in the 1880s and 1890s, and the Kerby families, bicycle factory, the federal Manufacturing Company in the last century.

After World War I, Taylor Avenue acquired a "reputation", as many ladies of the night were active there, especially in the 300 block. This went on for quite some time.

Around 1970 the City of Camden began acquiring much of the land on which Taylor Avenue lay, and the avenue has been for all intents and purposes off the map since the late 1970s. Most of the 300 block lies "underneath" the Camden County Jail and Hall of Justice. From South 4th Street to Hudson Street it is a parking lot. About the only evidence of Taylor Avenue in 2005 was the alley behind the Camden Free Public Library in the 300 block of Federal Street, which was originally the Public Service Gas & Electric Company building.

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

Phil Cohen

100 Block of Taylor Avenue
	110 Taylor Avenue 1887-1888 Ellen Reed Widow of Charles Reed 1887-1888 William Reed Telegraph Operator, Pennsylvania R.R. Gone by 1947
	110 Taylor Avenue 1898 James Guilford Philadelphia Inquirer October 20, 1898 Gone by 1947 Click on Image for PDF File
	112 Taylor Avenue 1872-1873 Henry Frost 1878-1888 John Fallan & Family John & Kate Fallen Gone by 1947
	114 Taylor Avenue 1887-1888 Louis Bierle Laborer Gone by 1947
	116 Taylor Avenue 1887-1888 Samuel L J Rodman Messenger, Pennsylvania Railroad 1887-1888 William S. Rodman fruit Gone by 1947
	117 Taylor Avenue 1887-1888 William Canning Shoemaker William H. Canning Jr. Gone by 1947
	124 Taylor Avenue 1887-1888 John Bowers Carpenter 1887-1888 Richard H. Bowers Clerk
	124 Taylor Avenue 1889 William McCann Philadelphia Inquirer November 12,1889 Gone by 1947 Click on Image to Enlarge
	126 Taylor Avenue 1887-1888 William Bateman Carpenter Gone by 1947
	128 Taylor Avenue 1883-1888 James McCann Laborer, Pennsylvania Railroad Gone by 1947
	130 Taylor Avenue 1879-1882 James McCann 1887-1888 George H. Hisler Laborer Gone by 1947
	134 Taylor Avenue 1869 Abram Lower Gone by 1947

200 Block of Taylor Avenue
	201 Taylor Avenue
	201 Taylor Avenue 1887 John Campbell
	205 Taylor Avenue 1880-1885 Anson H. Kelly & Family Anson H. & Katherine Mathews Kelley Anson Kelley
	206 Taylor Avenue
	207 Taylor Avenue
	208 Taylor Avenue Camden Daily Courier March 2, 1924
	208 Taylor Avenue
	209 Taylor Avenue 1878 William J. Maguire 1902-1907 Henry Whittington & Family Henry & Cornelia Whittington Harrison Whittington Stanley Whittington Charles Whittington Mary Whittington Laura Whittington
	209-1/2 Taylor Avenue
	210 Taylor Avenue 1869 John Durkin
	210 Taylor Avenue 1910 Mrs. Emma Thompson Philadelphia Inquirer December 23, 1910 John Brothers
	212 Taylor Avenue
	213 Taylor Avenue
	214 Taylor Avenue 1900s-1910s Antonio Oliveto & Family Antonio & Maria Oliveto William Oliveto Felice Oliveto Anna Maria Oliveto Catherine Oliveto Dominick Oliveto Rose Oliveto Angelina Oliveto Lucy Oliveto Daniel Oliveto
	214 Taylor Avenue 1956 Rita Procacci Camden Courier-Post February 3, 1956
	215 Taylor Avenue
	215 Taylor Avenue 1887-1888 1888 William Nefton Philadelphia Inquirer June 20, 1888 Taylor's Avenue Fogarty Avenue Channing Terrace Camden Iron Works Cooper Hospital Captain Stahr
	216 Taylor Avenue
	218 Taylor Avenue
	222 Taylor Avenue 1949-1954 The Smalls Family Abraham Smalls
	226 Taylor Avenue
	227 Taylor Avenue
	228 Taylor Avenue
	229 Taylor Avenue 1894 James McCann
	230 Taylor Avenue 1881-1884 John Campbell
	230 Taylor Avenue 1888-1889 Ellen McLaughlin laundry 1888-1889 John McLaughlin laborer
	230 Taylor Avenue 1928 William Hill aka William Dill Henry Wilson Camden Courier-Post February 18, 1928
FALSE ALARM LEADS TO ARREST OF THREE Girl Accused of Vagrancy When Found in Closet of House With Smoking Stove A passerby who thought he saw a house afire on Taylor Avenue near Third street, turned in an alarm that brought four fire companies on a monkey run yesterday. It required more than five minutes to find the house reported a fire when the apparatus pulled up at the alarm box at Third and Federal streets. Two policemen, Sergeant Nathan Petit and Marshall Thompson, who followed firemen to the scene were quicker than that for they found the house and a young woman hiding in the closet on the second floor. She was arrested along with a woman and a man. Taken to police headquarters the young woman, who identified herself as Margaret Pone, 17, of Park Avenue, Maple Shade, was held on a charge of vagrancy. Margaret Johns, and Louis Archer, 39, both Negroes, who were also found in the three-story dwelling at 230 Taylor Avenue, were also held as material witnesses. The reported fire turned out to be the smoking stove.	230 Taylor Avenue Camden Courier-Post February 21, 1936 Margaret Pone Margaret Johns Louis Arhcer
	231 Taylor Avenue 1890s-1910s William P. Elberson
	233 Taylor Avenue Raymond Campbell Campbell's Tavern 1930 Census

300 Block of Taylor Avenue
	302 Taylor Avenue William W. Thoman Hat manufacturer 1887-1891
	303 Taylor Avenue 1893-1907 Mary Sines & Family
	304 Taylor Avenue Camden Courier-Post August 14, 1933 Jennie Worana Burns Street Jesse Brown John Hobbs John Curry Thomas Keely
	306 Taylor Avenue 1898-1903 Mary Sines & Family Harry Sines Philadelphia Public Ledger May 4, 1898
	306 Taylor Avenue 1899-1901 John Milton Sines & Family
	306 Taylor Avenue 1898-1903 Mary Sines & Family Philadelphia Public Ledger March 26, 1903
	306 Taylor Avenue Camden Rescue Mission January 1928
	307 Taylor Avenue
	309 Taylor Avenue
	311 Taylor Avenue
	314 Taylor Avenue Armstead Saunders 1931
	313-315 Taylor Avenue Federal Manufacturing Company bicycles & velocipedes 1947
	316 Taylor Avenue 1887-1888 Jesse Sweeten Shoemaker Gone by 1947
	317 Taylor Avenue Gone by 1947
	319 Taylor Avenue James & Alice Coleman daughters Mary Ann,Catherine and Alice 1856-1863
	320 Taylor Avenue A shed stood here n 1885 Gone by 1947
	321 Taylor Avenue Gone by 1947
	323 Taylor Avenue Gone by 1947
	324 Taylor Avenue Gone by 1947
	324 Taylor Avenue F.P. Lawson Ketchup & Preserves Factory 1885-1891
	326 Taylor Avenue 1887-1891 Howard H. Currie & Family Howard L. Currie Gone by 1947
	326-328 Taylor Avenue 1914 B.F. Schroeder & Sons warehouse
	327 Taylor Avenue 1889 Mrs. Louisa Rudolph Philadelphia Inquirer June 13, 1889 Lewis Rively - James M. Cassady
	328 Taylor Avenue Gone by 1947
	329 Taylor Avenue James F. Farnon Shoemaker 1888-1889 Gone by 1947

400 Block of Taylor Avenue 18 Houses in this block were destroyed by fire on May 13, 1900
	401 Taylor Avenue Gone by 1947
	402 Taylor Avenue
	403 Taylor Avenue 1876-1899 James Read & Family James & Emily Read James Read Walter F. Read Frank F. Read Gone by 1947
	404 Taylor Avenue
	406 Taylor Avenue Amanda Collins dressmaker 1888-1889 Catherine Jensen dressmaker 1888-1889 Amelia Kirk dressmaker 1890-1891
	406 Taylor Avenue 1906-1922 John Kleinfelder & Family John & Julia Kleinfelder Harry Kleinfelder
	408 Taylor Avenue Michael F. Kelly 1920s-1950
	410 Taylor Avenue 1907 Michael Kelly Philadelphia Inquirer January 27, 1907 Click on Image for PDF File of Complete Article
	412 Taylor Avenue 1952 Mrs. Lillian Simons
	414 Taylor Avenue George W. Priest George W. Priest & Son riggers 1887-1890 Mrs. Sallie Melvin widow of Frederick Melvin 1887-1890
	414 Taylor Avenue John A. Horne & Family Camden Courier October 23, 2894
	416 Taylor Avenue Staff Sergeant Robert C. Redding
	418 Taylor Avenue
	420 Taylor Avenue 1888 John Carrigan Family Martin B. Carrigan
HOSPITAL CASES COOPER Lewis Raupp, 53, 833 North 6th Street, dog bite of right index finger Anna Veroline, 34, 318 Walnut Street, sprained ankle Albert Passarella, 15, 433 Spruce Street, sprained ankle Thomas J. Owens, 35, 420 Taylor Ave., bruised wrist and knee Joseph Manfredi, 14, 335 Chestnut Street, infected palm. Margaret Cramer, 9, 323 Erie Street, infected finger Laurence Wiggle, 5, 505 South 6th Street, cut hand Joseph Carbone, 18, 336 Walnut Street, cut chin Thomas DiRenzo, 13, 522 Clinton St., splinter in left foot. Cecelia Homan, 32, 511 Ray Avenue, foreign body in eye Mary DiVincenzo, 10, 311 Beckett St., foreign body in eye WEST JERSEY Theresa Marolda, 59, 1713 South 4th Street, cut finger Benjamin Druasowictz, 34, 1282 Van Hook St., cut finger Charles Mangold, 52, 3 North 4th Street, cut finger Stanley Kaminski, 25, 1119 Liberty Street, cut hand Marie Birsch, 15, 697 Van Hook St., foreign particle in eye Willard Dickson, 3, 1739 Railroad Ave., puncture wound of thigh	420 Taylor Avenue 1938 Thomas J. Owens Camden Courier-Post February 14, 1938
	421 Taylor Avenue
	422 Taylor Avenue 1899, 1910 John H. Lutts
	424 Taylor Avenue 1871-1874 William H. Osler & Family William H. & Rebecca Osler
	424 Taylor Avenue 1890-1894 Frederick Himmelein Jr. & Family Frederick & Minnie Himmelein Minnie Himmelein Frederick Elwood Himmelein Lillian Himmelein
	425 Taylor Avenue
	426 Taylor Avenue
	427 Taylor Avenue Gone by 1947
	428 Taylor Avenue Gone by 1947

500 Block of Taylor Avenue 509 to 523 Taylor Avenue were destroyed by fire May 13, 1900
	500-510 Taylor Avenue Samuel W. Davis Livery 1887-1887 John Seagraves Livery 1888-1889 William T. Stanton 1890-1891 Gone by 1947
	511 Taylor Avenue 1893 John Fitzgerald Philadelphia Inquirer August 30, 1893 1923 1947 Gone
	512 Taylor Avenue Gone by 1947
	513 Taylor Avenue 1895-1952 John A. Wilson & Family Engineer on the Pennsylvania Railroad John A. & Katie Zechman Wilson Paul Wilson - Esther Wilson Mary Wilson - Andrew Wilson John Wilson - William Wilson Walter Wilson John A. Wilson was born in 1870 in Camden. His wife Katie was born in Reading, Pennsylvania.
	514 Taylor Avenue Gone by 1947
	515 Taylor Avenue 1885-1888 James Lennox & Family James & Katherine Lennox John H. Lennox - William Lennox J. Edgar Lennox - Edward Lennox Maggie Lennox - Samuel Lennox Harry Lennox - Hugh Lennox Mary Lennox - Robert Lennox
POLICE RAID HOUSE Taylor Avenue Man Sent to Jail for 50 Days When Unable to Pay $50 Fine Thomas Fleeyne, 54, of 515 Taylor Avenue, who was arrested when police raided his home, was sent to jail for 50 days in default of a $50 line Saturday by Police Judge Pancoast. Fleeyne entered a plea of guilty to permitting disorderly persons to congregate at his home. He said he had been without work since coming to Camden. Fleeyne's wife, Margaret, 42, was unable to appear in court on account of illness, and her $25 bond was returned; Josephine Lorento, 30, of 350 Tree Street, Philadelphia, also held as a material witness, was freed when she said she had visited the house to see Mrs. Fleeyne, Michael Bratses, 49, of 210 Market street, and Thomas Kretekos, 48, of 529 South Broad street, Philadelphia, were fined $25 each as inmates. John Kershaw, 32, of 515 Taylor Avenue, forfeited $25 bail when he failed to appear. The raid was made by Lieutenant George Ward, commander of the First district police, and Patrolman John Trout, on complaint made by Dominick Madden, 46, of 455 Haddon Avenue.	515 Taylor Avenue Thomas & Margeret Fleeyne John Kershaw Camden Courier-Post March 28, 1932 Gone by 1947
	516 Taylor Avenue James Dunn Saloon 1885-1889 Cecelia Dunn Saloon 1890-1891 James Jennings bartender 1890-1891 Mary Dunn Saloon 1904 Gone by 1947
	517 Taylor Avenue Mary Foley Grocery 1888-1889 Gone by 1947
	519 Taylor Avenue Gone by 1947
	521 Taylor Avenue Gone by 1947
	523 Taylor Avenue Stephen Wallace Grocery 1887-1888 Ann Wallace Grocery, widow of Stephen 1890-1891 Gone by 1947
	525 Taylor Avenue 1870 Mary Jane Cox Philadelphia Inquirer March 18, 1870
	525 Taylor Avenue Peter Quinn Carpet Weaver Shop 1885-1888' Gone by 1947
	526 Taylor Avenue Gone by 1947
	527 Taylor Avenue Gone by 1947
Intersection of Park Place & Taylor Avenue
	528 Taylor Street 1910-1916 Harry Maher & Family Harry & Theresa Maher Margaret Maher Helen Maher Charles Maher Camden Daily Courier June 23, 1913
	528 Taylor Avenue
	529 Taylor Avenue Gone by 1947
	531 Taylor Avenue 1884 Isaiah Collins Gone by 1947

Intersection of South 3rd Street & Taylor Avenue
	Northeast Corner 14 South 2nd Street Private Home in 1885
	Southeast Corner 18 South 2nd Street Private Home in 1885
	Northwest Corner 13-17 South 2nd Street Private Homes in 1885
	Southwest Corner 21 South 3rd Street Private Home in 1885

Intersection of South 4th Street & Taylor Avenue
	Northeast Corner 16 South 4th Street Private Home in 1885
	Southeast Corner 18 South 4th Street Saloon 1885-1891 Samuel Durand 1890-1891
	Northwest Corner 13 South 4th Street Private Home in 1885
	Southwest Corner 15 South 4th Street Cigar Store 1885

Intersection of South 5th Street & Taylor Avenue
	Northeast Corner 500-510 Taylor Avenue Samuel W. Davis Livery
	Southeast Corner St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church 1859-1864 Thomas M.K. Lee Post No. 5 GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC 1880s - after 1931
	Northwest Corner 15 South 5th Street Private Home in 1885
	Southwest Corner 17 South 5th Street Private Home in 1885
	First Police District headquarters -1970s