28 Haddon Avenue was open as a saloon prior to Prohibition's 1919 enactment. John W. Sutton is listed in the Camden City Directories as operating the bar in the years 1918 through 1921. John W. Sutton appear to have been the business name of John W. Suthel, who is listed as the building's owner in the 1920 and 1930 Census. Suthel, or Sutton, depending on how one wants to think of him, was 82 years old at the time of the 1930 census. Also living there was his wife Stella, then 54,  a son John B. Suthel, and John B.'s wife Margaret. 

John W. Suthel was born in Delaware around 1848. He appears to have been in Camden by 1880, when a "James Suthel" was living in the 300 block of Arxch Street and working as a ships carpenter. The 1888-1889 Camden City Directory shows a John W. Sutton operating a bar at the corner of South 2nd and Line Streets. The 1890-1891 Directory shows John W. Sutton in the bar business at South 3rd and Berkely Streets. 

By 1931 H. Roy Steele was in business at 28 Haddon Avenue. Within a few years he had acquired a nearby bar, at 560 Carman Street, and would do business through at least 1959 there under the name Roy Steele's Tavern. The 

Henry Roy Steele was born in Pennsylvania around 1885. The 1930 Census shows him living in Collingswood NJ with wife Georgina, daughter Edna, and sons Bruce K. and Henry Roy Jr. At the time of the Census, April of 1930, he was not in the bar business, which would indicate that he became involved shortly after that point, as he was operating the bar by the time the 1931 Camden City Directory was compiled. Roy Steele passed away before 1947. His wife and son Bruce remained in the tavern business.

The Camden Courier-Post newspapers reported in June of 1939 that Mrs. Delia Suthel had received a liquor license renewal for 28 Haddon Avenue, and the 1943 Camden City Directory shows a Stella Suthel at the location. I believe the "Delia" indicated in the news article was probably Stella Suthel, and that the Suthel family, who owned the building, had gone back into the active operation of the bar after Roy Steele had left.

When the next directory was published, for 1947, the bar had been named the Century Bar. Sidney E. Herold and Morrey Lachtman were named as the proprietors. The Century Bar remained in business at this location through at least 1967. 

In June of 1967, a Marguerite DuRocher applied for the liquor license renewal, as president of Dobur, Inc. Other officers named in the application were Betty Davis of 1245 North 25th Street and Terrence Zakerowski of 2901 Polk Avenue, both in Camden's Cramer Hill neighborhood.

The property was razed in one of the ill-conceived urban renewal projects of the 1970s which did as much as the riots to devastate downtown Camden.

A New Jersey State Office Building, built around 1990, now occupies the site.