Camden Streets - Birch Street

BIRCH STREET at one time ran from Front Street through to Ninth. Various projects over the years have taken pieces of Birch Street off of the map over the years.

When the Delaware River Bridge was built in the early 1920s, the south side of Birch Street was razed from Front to Third Street. Fourth through Eighth Streets were taken in their entireties over the years as the Delaware River Port Authority required more space for administrative and maintenance buildings, and the Northgate Apartment Buildings were built.

Aviation Machinists Mate Third Class Livio Joseph Banda, born and raised on Birch Street, was killed in action while serving with the United States Navy during World War II.

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

Phil Cohen

100 Block of Birch Street

108 Birch Street

1890 George Frederick Kappel
1890 George W.A. Kappel
1947 Gone

111 Birch Street

1947 Paul Coulter

113 Birch Street

1947 Harvey H. Esslinger
paperhanger

117 Birch Street

1947 Petro Ortiz

117 Birch Street

October 14, 2003

Bravest Respond to
Camden City, NJ Working Fire

by Ted Auig

In the early hours of Saturday, the Camden City Fire Department was dispatched to a reported house fire at 117 Birch Street.

Battalion 2 arrived to find heavy fire conditions in a vacant twin with fire through the roof. Battalion 2 struck the all-hands on arrival.

Interior attacks were changed to exterior operations at the command of Battalion 2 with danger of the front wall threatening to collapse. A second ladder company was called to service for the tower.

No injuries were reported. This was the city's second working job in two hours.

Units involved:
Battalion 2, Battalion 1
Engine 1, Engine 6, Engine 11
Ladder 1, Ladder 3
Rescue 1

119 Birch Street

1947 Nazzerano Pulvano

121 Birch Street

1947 Edward O'Neal

123 Birch Street

1947 Mrs. Ruth DeFlorio

125 Birch Street

1910s-1920s Biagio Banda Family
1947 Mrs. Annie Hickman

127 Birch Street

1947 James W. Bonner

129 Birch Street

1947 Mrs. Edna M. Hyatt

131 Birch Street

1947 Francis J. Cloran

133 Birch Street

1947 Else Feucht

200 Block of Birch Street
	Birch & North 2nd Streets *Under the Bridge*
	Birch Street East from North 2nd Street April 18, 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge
	Birch Street East from North 2nd Street April 18, 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge
	Birch Street East from North 2nd Street April 18, 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge
	207 Birch Street 1947 Frederick H. Bennett
	209 Birch Street 1947 Mrs. Mary Leonard
	211 Birch Street 1947 Joseph Wisniewski
	213 Birch Street Private David H. Ross
	213 Birch Street 1924-1930 George H. Sanders driver, William S. Scull Company
WILLIAM H. DAVIS Funeral services for William H. Davis, 56, of 213 Birch Street, who died Sunday, will be held at 10- a.m. tomorrow at the Schroeder funeral chapel, Broadway and Royden Street. Burial will be in Mays Landing Cemetery. He is survived by his wife, Mamie.	213 Birch Street 1933 William H. & Mamie Davis Camden Courier-Post June 6, 1933
	213 Birch Street 1947 Mrs. Elsie G. Foss
	215 Birch Street 1947 Daniel W. Saarinen
	217 Birch Street 1947 Charles S. Woodward
	219 Birch Street 1947 Faust Lancia
	Birch Street West from North 3rd Street April 18, 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge
	Birch Street West from North 3rd Street April 18, 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge
	Birch Street West from North 3rd Street April 18, 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge

300 Block of Birch Street By 1980 the entire block was gone, taken by Delaware Valley Port Authority
	310 Birch Street 1887-1890s James H. Long
	310 Birch Street 1947 Cancetto J. Gelomini
	311 Birch Street 1947 Harry A. Donnelly
	312 Birch Street 1947 Edward V. Penney
	313 Birch Street 1870s-1880s Charles S. Wolverton
	313 Birch Street 1880s Charles A. Wolverton
	313 Birch Street 1880s Walter P. Wolverton
	313 Birch Street 1947 Granville Garrison
	314 Birch Street 1890s-1900s Garrett Cowls 1947 Clayton E. Brooks
	315 Birch Street 1947 Carl W. Elton 1947 Henry Urban
	317 Birch Street 1947 Svend Andersen
	318 Birch Street 1947 Albert Needham
	319 Birch Street 1947 Mrs. Lillian H. Theil
	320 Birch Street Aviation Machinists Mate 3rd Class Livio Joseph Banda
	320 Birch Street 1930s-1947 Biagio Banda
	321 Birch Street 1900 Mark & Lizzie Quinn 1947 Louis Exler
	322 Birch Street 1947 James M. Agnew
	323 Birch Street 1947 George A. Williams
	324 Birch Street 1947 Elmo P. Elton
	325 Birch Street 1947 Walter J. Blair
	326 Birch Street 1947 Merrit L. Bruce
	327 Birch Street 1947 Paul Meckle

400 Block of Birch Street By 1980 the entire block was gone, taken by Delaware Valley Port Authority
	402 Birch Street 1947 Mrs. Anna Torry
	404 Birch Street 1947 Theo Dorofee
	406 Birch Street 1947 Bernard Skain
	408 Birch Street 1947 Wilbur Wright ice
Pancoast Proves 3.2 ·Beer Did Not Make Man Tipsy Police Judge Pancoast is firmly convinced that 3.2 beer is not intoxicating. He emphatically expressed himself so to George Shuts, 34, of 410 Birch Street, Saturday when Shuts, who was charged with drunkenness, said he had been drinking beer. Detective Clifford Carr said he found the man "down and out." "You never got in the condition in which you were found by drinking 3.2 beer," the court said. "Right now in New York there is a drinking contest being waged in which the contestants have been drinking a bottle of beer every 15 minutes for the past two weeks and they are not drunk yet." Shuts then admitted that he had "a few liquors" on top of the beer. "1 thought so," Judge Pancoast said. "The man who be comes intoxicated on the new beer is either very weak physically or very imaginative mentally." He suspended sentence on Shuts with the admonition to "stick to the 3.2".	410 Birch Street 1933 William Shuts Camden Courier-Post June 19, 1933
	410 Birch Street 1947 William Baxter
	412 Birch Street 1947 Clifford A. Lambdon
	414 Birch Street 1920s-1930s Earl Wright
	414 Birch Street 1947 Mrs. Ella Plum
	416 Birch Street 1947 Henry B. Hess
	416 Birch Street 1947 Lena Hess I had a girlfriend that lived at 4th and Birch named Lena Hess. She introduced me to my wife Jim Bessing July 2004

500 Block of Birch Street By 1980s the entire block was gone, taken by Northgate II Townhomes
	513 Birch Street 1890s-1900s Charles Daniels
	513 Birch Street 1890s-1900s Charles T. Daniels
	513 Birch Street 1947 Jose E.N. Morales
	515 Birch Street 1947 John V. Mellor
	517 Birch Street 1947 Mrs. Rosa Peris
	519 Birch Street 1947 James N. Showers
	521 Birch Street 1947 Verda Rusaw
	523 Birch Street 1947 Randolph Parker
	525 Birch Street 1947 William S. Dempsey
	527 Birch Street 1947 Volney Vanneman
	529 Birch Street 1947 James H. Wallace 1947 Henry H. Joseph Jr.
	531 Birch Street 1947 Russell J. Tatem trucking
	533 Birch Street 1947 Juan Montis
	535 Birch Street 1947 Mrs. Anna B. Sibbitt
	537 Birch Street 1933 Robert Farland Camden Courier-Post June 23, 1933
	537 Birch Street 1947 vacant
	539 Birch Street 1947 Evelyn Rehrig
	541 Birch Street 1947 James F. Singhas

600 Block of Birch Street By 1980s the entire block was gone, taken by Northgate II Townhomes
	601 Birch Street 1947 Harry S, Helfrich
	603 Birch Street 1947 Mrs. Anna McNally
	605 Birch Street 1947 Frank Marishak
	607 Birch Street 1947 Ralph C. Gregory
	609 Birch Street 1947 James C. Dilks
	611 Birch Street 1947 Ingolv Klungland painter
	613 Birch Street 1947 Robert C. Pershing
	615 Birch Street 1947 Raymond W. Parsons
	617 Birch Street 1947 Harry B. Wright
	619 Birch Street 1947 Mrs. Margaret Williams
	621 Birch Street 1900s-1910s Charles Daniels
	621 Birch Street 1900s-1910s Charles T. Daniels
	621 Birch Street 1947 Frances Ruff
	622 Birch Street 1910s-1920s James C. Edwards Family 1947 Mrs. Mary B. Siegel
	623 Birch Street 1947 Walter E. Kennedy
	624 Birch Street 1933 Bracewell's Express
	624 Birch Street 1947 Theresa Gramley
	625 Birch Street Private Enos S. Kimble
	625 Birch Street 1947 William G. Winterbottom
	626 Birch Street 1947 James Edwards
	627 Birch Street 1947 Harry F. Flippen
	628 Birch Street Sergeant James A. Edwards
	628 Birch Street 1947 John T. Everingham
	629 Birch Street Private John Otto Boyson
	629 Birch Street 1947 Orris W. Schaeffer
	630 Birch Street 1947 Edward W. Rossell
	631 Birch Street 1947 Hattie Ashley-Tainton
	632 Birch Street 1947 George J. Ritner
	633 Birch Street 1947 Martha Dorton
	634 Birch Street 1947 Robert C. Henderson
	635 Birch Street 1947 John F. Carter
	636 Birch Street 1947 William H. Shimp
	637 Birch Street 1947 Louis V. Schmidt
	638 Birch Street 1947 Raymond T. Rossell
	639 Birch Street 1947 Harold Kistner

700 Block of Birch Street By 1970s the entire block was gone, taken by Northgate II high-rise apartment building

	705 Birch Street 1947 Stanley Skokowski
	706 Birch Street 1947 Anthony Whitehead
	707 Birch Street 1947 James E. Parkinson
	708 Birch Street 1947 Michael H. Goy
	709 Birch Street 1947 Tony O. Franzello
	710 Birch Street 1947 Edgar Brenig
	711 Birch Street Private Ted R. Bunalski
	711 Birch Street 1947 Joseph A. Jones
	712 Birch Street 1947 Howard Mauser
	713 Birch Street 1947 George E. Davis
	714 Birch Street 1947 William K. Peters
	715 Birch Street 1947 Joseph J. Miller
	716 Birch Street 1947 Mabel H. Jones
	717 Birch Street 1947 Daniel Forte
	718 Birch Street 1947 Mrs. Ethel Gilmartin
	719 Birch Street 1947 Jerry Quinlan
	720 Birch Street 1947 Edward H. Rettberg
	721 Birch Street 1947 Robert Barracliffe
	722 Birch Street 1947 No Return
	723 Birch Street 1947 Walter Yates
	724 Birch Street 1947 Bernard R. McLaughlin
	725 Birch Street 1947 Clarence H. Potter
	726 Birch Street 1947 Louis F. Nuzzi
	727 Birch Street William Warner Camden Courier-Post October 20, 1931
	727 Birch Street 1947 Martin J. Barrett
	728 Birch Street 1947 Florence C. Elwell
	729 Birch Street 1947 Newton T. Smith
	730 Birch Street 1933 Louis C. Wurst
	730 Birch Street 1947 Edward Turmer
	731 Birch Street 1947 Edward P. Biggard
	732 Birch Street 1928 Charles Morgan Camden Courier-Post February 25, 1928 Frank F. Neutze Rocco Palese 112th Field Artillery Armory
	732 Birch Street 1947 Sarah Randles
	734 Birch Street 1947 Anthony J. Buonomo
	736 Birch Street 1947 Edward Love

800 Block of Birch Street
	804 Birch Street 1929 Mrs. Annie Gumbrell 1947 George Gumbrell
	805 Birch Street 1929 Vacant 1947 Edward P. Jasinski
	806 Birch Street 1938 Gertrude L. Higgins 1947 William Prasch
	807 Birch Street 1947 Otto W. Riess
	808 Birch Street 1947 Frank E. McDonnell
	809 Birch Street 1947 Jospeh E. Grittin
	810 Birch Street 1947 Harry J. Dempsey
	811 Birch Street 1947 Blaine F. McPherson
	812 Birch Street 1947 Charles S. Richards
	813 Birch Street 1947 George B. Schaffer
	814 Birch Street 1929 Edward Koehler 1929-1947 Oscar Koehler
	815 Birch Street 1929 Vacant
CAMDEN YOUTH HELD IN ARMY PISTOL THEFT U. S. Marshall Bernard J. Tracy last night arrested Martin J. Corbert, 23, of 122 Pearl Street, Camden, in connection with the theft of a .45 caliber automatic pistol from the 157th Field Artillery Armory on Wright Avenue at Ninth street. He was lodged in Camden city jail for a hearing before U. S. Commissioner Wynn Armstrong this morning. As the result of a Federal Bureau of Investigation probe. Carl Weber, 21, of 815 Birch Street, was arrested two weeks ago, charged with larceny of government property and was held in Federal custody. According to Camden police, Weber implicated Corbert.	815 Birch Street 1938 Carl Weber Camden Courier-Post February 1, 1938
	815 Birch Street 1947 John Savich
	816 Birch Street 1947 Edward R. Fithian
	817 Birch Street 1928 The Gillis Family Camden Courier-Post February 20, 1928 Birch Street South 2nd Street Bernard Bertman Harry Kreher Artilo Alleva
	817 Birch Street 1947 Elmer S. Campbell
	818 Birch Street 1947 George Cox
	819 Birch Street 1947 Norman R. Campbell
	820 Birch Street 1947 Elton H. Ackley
	821 Birch Street 1947 Mrs. Emily B. Barracliffe
	822 Birch Street 1947 Ernest L. Delaney
	823 Birch Street Sergeant George T. Senior
	823 Birch Street 1947 James J. Senior
	824 Birch Street 1947 Daniel C. Flemming
	825 Birch Street 1947 vacant
	826 Birch Street 1947 Charles C. Bray
	827 Birch Street 1947 Howard G. Carey
	828 Birch Street Private First Class George J. Villano
	828 Birch Street 1947 Mrs. Gladys M. Gaffney
	829 Birch Street 1947 Elwyn L. Carter
	830 Birch Street 1947 Mrs. Mary J. Brown
	831 Birch Street 1947 Alex R. Szabo
	832 Birch Street 1947 Thomas H. Knight
	833 Birch Street 1947 Francis E. Leonard
	834 Birch Street 1947 Edmund W. Hubler
	835 Birch Street 1947 Julia Bolston
	836 Birch Street 1947 John H. Dill
	837 Birch Street 1947 Stephen L. Pelphrey