Streets
of
Camden, NJ

Carpenter Street


CARPENTER STREET first appears in City Directories in 1867. The street is not listed in the 1863-1864 Directory. Carpenter Street was a narrow street originally ran from 118 North 8th Street eastwards until it ran into Cooper Street where Cooper angles towards it's intersection with Federal Street near the Cooper River bridges. An alley adjacent to 1129 Carpenter Street provided access to Cooper Street. 

Carpenter Street at one time was interrupted at North 9th Street by the Hollingshead Factory and a railroad crossing. The Hollingshead factory was destroyed on July 30, 1940 in a spectacular fire. Several homes in the 900 block of Carpenter Street went up in flames with the factory. By 1947 only one family that had been living on Carpenter Street in 1924 was still living on the street.

In later years most of Carpenter Street beyond North 9th Street was razed to make way for Interstate 676. Today virtually all that remains is the 800 block, with no buildings standing on it. For many years Carpenter Street was best known as being "the alley behind the Towne Park Motel".

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

 Phil Cohen


Carpenter Street - 1946


 800 Block of Carpenter Street 

 

 809 Carpenter Street

1924 Mrs. Mildred C. Loving

 

 811 Carpenter Street

1924 Harry C. Emore

 

 813 Carpenter Street

1924 Vacant

 

 815 Carpenter Street

1888-1910s Michael McCaffrey
1924 Walter D. Hamilton

 

 816 Carpenter Street

1980s-1890s Daniel Carter
1880s-1890s
Peter B. Carter
1924 Gone

 

 817 Carpenter Street

1924 Mrs. Anna M. Johnson

 

 818 Carpenter Street

1887-1888 Jesse Johntra
1924 Gone

 

 819 Carpenter Street

1924 William S. Tehn

 

 821 Carpenter Street

1924 Clarence A. Gibbs

 

 823 Carpenter Street

1924 Edward J. Beglin

 

 825 Carpenter Street

1870s-1890s Thomas A. Daley
proprietor, milk delivery business
1924 Philip MacDonald

 

 827 Carpenter Street

1924 William H. Allen

 

 829 Carpenter Street

1924 Mrs. Margaret Burkett

 

 831 Carpenter Street

1924 Mrs. Alice A. Stafford

 

 833 Carpenter Street

1924 Frank McGuckin

 

 835 Carpenter Street

1924 Jesse D. Sawyer
1947 Mrs. Gertrude M. Sawyer
(widow)

 

 842 Carpenter Street

1924 Mrs. Mary J. Hamilton
1947 George W. Webber

 

 844 Carpenter Street

1924 Not Listed
1947 Vacant


Camden Courier-Post - July 20. 1949

Tired of playing in dirt and filth littering the thoroughfare, children in the 800 block of Carpenter Street are shown cleaning it after they organized their own volunteer brigade. The youngest of the cleanup squad, two-year-old Howard Handy, is shown in the arms of his sister Patsy, 9 (at rear of automobile). The children, numbering about 20, started the job at 8 a.m. and had the street spic and span four hours later


Hollingshead Factory Fire - July 30, 1940

Looking East on Carpenter Street
A Scene repeated many times throughout the neighborhoods surrounding the fire, dwellings were dwarfed by the immense size of the burning factory complex. Hot and windy weather, low water pressure, flying embers, and severe radiant heat conditions joined forces to spread the fire in all directions among several city blocks. 


Intersection of North 9th & Carpenter Streets


900 Block of Carpenter Street 

 

 917 Carpenter Street

1924 Mrs. Annie Eichenberg
1947 gone

 

 919 Carpenter Street

1924 Vacant
1947 gone

 

 921 Carpenter Street

1924 Harry Kier
1947 gone

 

 923 Carpenter Street

1924 Vacant
1947 gone

 

 924 Carpenter Street

1924 Vacant
1947 gone

 

 925 Carpenter Street

1924 Walter S. Baldwin
1947 gone

 

 926 Carpenter Street

1924 Vacant
1947 gone

 

 927 Carpenter Street

1924 Jennie Slaughter
1947 gone

 

 928 Carpenter Street

1924 George T. Potter
1947 gone

 

 929 Carpenter Street

1924 Charles Baners
1947 gone

 

 930 Carpenter Street

1924 Samuel Barrett
1947 gone

 

 931 Carpenter Street

1924 John M. Turner
1947 gone

 

 932 Carpenter Street

1924 Vacant
1947 gone

 

 933 Carpenter Street

1924 Vacant
1947 gone

 

 934 Carpenter Street

1924 George F. Crowe

 

935 Carpenter Street

1914 Melvin & Nettie Gleason
1914
Lester A. Gleason
1924 Vacant

 

 936 Carpenter Street

1924 George F. Dueschle

 

 937 Carpenter Street

1924 Mrs. Mary Miller

 

 938 Carpenter Street

1924 Joseph Johnson

 

 939 Carpenter Street

1924 Vacant

 

 940 Carpenter Street

1924Mrs. Annie Martin

 

 942 Carpenter Street

1924 James W. Monroe

 

 944 Carpenter Street

1924 Robert B. Rich

 

 946 Carpenter Street

1924 Not Listed
1947 Alfred Dannibale


Intersection of North 10th & Carpenter Streets


 1000 Block of Carpenter Street 

 

 1004 Carpenter Street

1924 George S. Lewis

 

1006 Carpenter Street

1924 Jacob Newman

 

1008 Carpenter Street

1924  Mrs. Amanda Welch

 

 1009 Carpenter Street

1924 Vacant

 

 1010 Carpenter Street

1924 Henry M. Turner

 

 1011 Carpenter Street

1924 Frank J. Moore

 

1012 Carpenter Street

1924 William A. Mapes

 

1013 Carpenter Street

1924 John W. Howell

 

 1014 Carpenter Street

1924 Mrs. Alice Mentz

 

 1015 Carpenter Street

1924 George Lye
1944
Zellie Ellis rental property

 

 1017 Carpenter Street

1924 Harold F. Roberts

 

1019 Carpenter Street

1924 Conrad A. Gerhart

 

1021 Carpenter Street

1924 Vacant

 

 1023 Carpenter Street

1924 Vacant

 

 1024 Carpenter Street

1924 Vacant

 

1025 Carpenter Street

1924 Musghy Zonenian

BOYS ON ROOF ACCUSED OF PLOT TO ROB STORE

Two 15-year-old boys were arrested last night on charges of breaking and entering and attempted larceny. 

The boys, Fred Powell, of 1025 Carpenter Street, and John McCloskey, of 33 North Twenty-fifth street, were arrested by Policeman Everett Joslin and John Taylor on the roof of a shanty in the abandoned Humphrey Lumber yard, Point and Pearl Street, which is occupied by William L. Rice, of 206 York Street, as an ice cream and candy store. The boys had broken off a section of the roof and were about to enter the store, the police said. They will be arraigned today. 

1025 Carpenter
Street

1933 Fred Powell

Camden Courier-Post
June 19, 1933

 

 1026 Carpenter Street

1924 Christian L. Gerney

 

 1027 Carpenter Street

1924 Charles J. Packer

 

1028 Carpenter Street

1924 Emory Saunders

 

 1029 Carpenter Street

1924 Rudolph Funk

 

 1030 Carpenter Street

1924 Daniel Beverly

 

 1031 Carpenter Street

1924 Frank Nelson

 

 1032 Carpenter Street

1924 Charles S.R. Hile

 

 1033 Carpenter Street

1924 William Crowell

 

 1034 Carpenter Street

1924 Mrs. Etta Conrow

 

 1036 Carpenter Street

1924 Karop Tashjian

 

 1038 Carpenter Street

1924 John R. Ruby

 

 1040 Carpenter Street

1924 Charles Kobel

 

 1042 Carpenter Street

1924 James Corrigan


Intersection of North 11th & Carpenter Streets


Intersection of Cooper Street & Carpenter Street

1100 Block
of
Carpenter Street

1885

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1100 Block
of
Carpenter Street

1891

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 1100 Block of Carpenter Street 

 

 1107 Carpenter Street

1924 Robert J. Landis

 

 1107 Carpenter Street

1924 Robert J. Landis

 

1108 Carpenter Street

1924 Russell Saulsbury

 

1109 Carpenter Street

1924Mrs. Elizabeth Pinn

 

 1110 Carpenter Street

1924 Mrs. Martha Williams

 

 1111 Carpenter Street

1924 David Stephens

 

1112 Carpenter Street

1924 Manuel J. Reaves

 

1113 Carpenter Street

1924 Vacant

 

 1114 Carpenter Street

1924 Frederick Foster

 

 1115 Carpenter Street

1924 Albert Johnson

 

 1116 Carpenter Street

1924 Vacant

 

 1117 Carpenter Street

1924 Daniel Stephens Jr.

 

 1118 Carpenter Street

1924 Mrs. Mary Meginnis

 

1119 Carpenter Street

1924 Edward McGill

 

1120 Carpenter Street

1924 Leroy E. Simpson
1933
Jessie Fife

 

 1121 Carpenter Street

1924 Frederick Thompson

 

1122 Carpenter Street

1924 Mrs. Hattie Bulla

 

1123 Carpenter Street

1924 Mrs. Bessie Green

 

 1124 Carpenter Street

1924 Henry Green

 

 1125 Carpenter Street

1924 Vacant

 

 1126 Carpenter Street

1924 Vacant

 

 1127 Carpenter Street

1924 Vacant

 

 1128 Carpenter Street

1924 Frank Cook

 

 1129 Carpenter Street

1924 Albert west

 

1131 Carpenter Street

1924 Mrs. Ella JAckson

 

 1136 Carpenter Street

1924 Vacant

 

 1138 Carpenter Street

1924 Vacant

 

1140 Carpenter Street

1924 Vacant

 

 1142 Carpenter Street

1924 Vacant

 

 1144 Carpenter Street

1924 Vacant


Intersection of Cooper Street & Carpenter Street

   

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