Streets
of
Camden, NJ

Clare Street


CLARE STREET is a one block thoroughfare that runs south, from 338 Pine Street to 335 Division Street, in South Camden. It was originally called Pine Avenue, and appears to have been renamed between 1878 and late 1889 or early 1890. 

Concerning the Clare Street listings in the 1887-1888 and 1888-1889 directories, the house number patterns are inconsistent with the location. The 1890-1891 directories have the proper house numbers.

By 2010, if not sooner, there were no homes remaining on Clare Street. Clare Street was renamed Jesthroe Hunt Sr. Lane by the City of Camden to memorialize former Camden Fire department member Jesthroe Hunt Sr. after his passing in 2005. 

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

 Phil Cohen


1946 Map of Camden

Clare Street can be seen in upper left portion of the map, running south to north between Pine Street & Division Street.


 Unit Block of Clare Street

 

 2 Clare Street

1887-1888 Charles McCarthy

 

 3 Clare Street

1888-1889 Adolph Marquotte
stone mason
1888-1889 Henry Marquotte
stone mason

 

 4 Clare Street

1887-1888 Andrew Evans
lather
1887-1888 Isaac Evans
lather
1887-1888 Joshua T. Evans

1888-1889 Charles A. Knowles
machinist
1888-1889 William S. Morris
painter

 

 5 Clare Street

1887-1888 Fred Martle
butcher

 

 6 Clare Street

1887-1888  Martin Sloman
tailor
1888-1889 John Doran
steamfitter

 

 7 Clare Street

1888-1889 Mrs. Amanda Miller
widow of Joseph Miller

 

 8 Clare Street

1878-1880s
Joseph Alloway & Family
carpenter
Joseph & Amanda Alloway
Charles Alloway
Joseph Alloway
Ida May Alloway

 

 9 Clare Street

 Mrs. Mary Brown
widow of William Brown
1887-1889 William E. Brown
machinist, Samuel M. Shreve

1888-1889 George R. Worrell
House Painter


Intersection of Pine Street & Clare Street

 Looking South
on

Clare Street

August 5, 2011

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Clare & Pine Streets - August 2011

 800 Block of Clare Street (after 1890)

 811 Clare Street

1896 Benjamin Cavanaugh

Camden Daily Courier
November 17, 1896

Ella Mitchell aka Bella Clark
John L. Westcott

 811 Clare Street

1911-1915
Joseph Giordano & Family
Joseph & Rose Giordano
Rocco Giordano

Camden Daily Courier
June 23, 1913

 811 Clare Street

1917-1918
John DiMaggio & Family
John & Mary DiMaggio
Santo DiMaggio
John DiMaggio
Anthony DiMaggio

Left: Santo DiMaggio

 811 Clare Street

1924
Robert Sapimora
laborer

Rocco & Bertha Sapimora

Camden Daily Courier
September 18, 1923


 811 Clare Street

1932
James Gimello & Family
Joseph Gimello

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 811 Clare Street

1938 Rev. H.J. Johnson

Camden Courier-Post
May 13, 1938

 


 811 Clare Street

1947
Mrs. Edith Chambers

 

 813 Clare Street

1890-1891
Edward W. Howard
assistant janitor

 813 Clare Street

1914 Dominic Giordano

Camden Daily Courier
March 10, 1914

Harry Waterhouse
Baring Street
William M. Kennedy
Liberty Street 
Anna Kennedy
John Brothers

O. Glen Stackhouse
Tony Nardello - South 4th Street
Joseph Travis
Fred Travis - 430 Spruce Street
P. Paradine 824 Spruce Street
Joseph Viggiano - 233 Pine Street
Roscoe Grassi - 407 Division Street
Dominic Auletto 845 Locust Street
Harry Denny - Pine Street
Dominic Giordano - Clare Street
Frank Sapanera
Joseph Condi
Joseph Burns
Antonio Mecca

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 813 Clare Street

1915 Aimiggizata Coppola

Camden Post-Telegram
March 2, 1915

William D. Brown
Clare Street
Vincenzo Marandino -
Pine Street
Charles H. Hiers -
Washington Street
Aliace Poirene -
Locust Street
Walter M. Price -
Cedar Street
Gertrude Skinner -
Linwood Street
Alfred B. Christiansen
Emily Coates -
Fulton Place
Albert Farber -
Market Street
Clarence Brown -
Chestnut Street
Alice Dixon -
Railroad Avenue

 

 813 Clare Street

1924
Mrs. Angeline Saparanoro
widow of John
Philip Saparanoro
laborer

 

 813 Clare Street

1947
Leslie Cutler

 815 Clare Street

1904 Isaac Chambers

Camden Post-Telegram
June 8, 1904

Isaiah Nickerson - South 3rd Street
Charles M. Baldwin
Frank T. Lloyd Sr.

 

817 Clare Street

1917 Joseph Davis

Camden Daily Courier
June 15, 1917

Richard McAllister
Harry Kay -
Elm Street
Frank Shawk -
Wood Street
John Dare -
Sheridan Street
Albert Smith -
Roberts Street
Herbert Dewees -
High Street
John McTaggart - Broadway
W.T. Haggerty -
High Street
Frederick Dill -
Carman Street

 

815 Clare Street

1924
Thomas Tolson

815 Clare Street

1939 Hilda Bayliss
1939 Stanley Evans

Camden Courier-Post
October 7, 1939

Clarence R. Peters
North 24th Street

 

 

 815 Clare Street

1947
Columbus Jones

 817 Clare Street

1913 Rosetta Johnson

Camden Daily Courier
September 11, 1913

Georgianna Copper - 342 South 4th Street
John SMith - 40
North 3rd Street
John Anderson - 514
Ray Street
Ralph White - 221
Benson Street
Emma Davis - 244
Cherry Street
Fannie Broadhurst - 1220
North 9th

817 Clare Street

1918 Edward Brown

Camden Daily Courier
May 13, 1918

Henry Butler - South 2nd Street
Carrie Washington -
Federal Street
Rhoda Montgomery - Marie Gibbs
Locust Street - Washington Street
Hazel Shipman

 817 Clare Street

1921 Curly McGee

Camden Post-Telegram
September 17, 1921

John Kowal - John Skolski
James Smith

 817 Clare Street

1921 Curly McGee

Camden Post-Telegram
September 17, 1921

John Kowal - John Skolski
James Smith - John Hallowell
Rosetta Blue
Baxter Street
Mary Gross
Rebecca Baylor

 

 817 Clare Street

1924
Henry & Gussie Bailey
laborer

1947
Mrs. Josephine Pritchard

 

 819 Clare Street

1890-1891
Mrs. Margaret Smith
widow of Philip Smith

819 Clare Street

1908 Harrison Merchant

Camden Post-Telegram
December 19, 1908

Henry A. Kulp
Owen Gale

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819 Clare Street

1912 Angelo Tario

Camden Post-Telegram
September 21, 1912

Sulo Home - Milton Street
John Taylor
Officer Gideon
N.Z. Garves Company
Clare Street

 

 

819 Clare Street

1914
Mary Water

Camden Post-Telegram
January 17, 1914

Hezekiah Allen
Henry Moffett
O. Glen Stackhouse
George V. Murry
Spruce Street

 

819 Clare Street

1914 William Davis

Camden Daily Courier
June 9, 1914

Henry C. Moffett - George V. Murry
Samuel Hibbert
Mrs. Peacock
Penn Street
Chester Street
O. Glen Stackhouse
Clare Street

 

819 Clare Street

1918 David Pratt

Camden Post-Telegram
March 30, 1914

Anna Duncan - Mulford Street
Alfred Cole Jr. - Haddon Avenue
Emma E. Prescott - Henry Street
Sallie J. Selby - North 6th Street
Firman G. Walz - Penn Street
William D. Brown

 

 819 Clare Street

1924
James & Mary Brown
gardener

1947
Howard Bayles

 

 821 Clare Street

1924
Joseph & Anna Bush
carpet cleaner

1947
Samuel Liberati

 

 823 Clare Street

1890-1891
Stephen Conaghy
shoemaker

 823 Clare Street


1896
John Dolan & Family
John & Ann Dolan

Camden Daily Courier
June 12, 1896

Cresson Street - Grant Street

 823 Clare Street


1913 Miss L. Augustus

Camden Post-Telegram
March 31, 1913

 823 Clare Street


1915
George Graham & Family
George & Augusta Graham
Nelson Graham
Elwood Wiggins

Camden Post-Telegram
June 18, 1915

Fiore Troncone

 

 823 Clare Street


George Graham & Family
George & Augusta Graham
Nelson Graham
Elwood Wiggins

Camden Daily Courier
July 9, 1915

William Knight

 

 823 Clare Street

 
1924
Dominick & Frances Corrado
assistant undertaker

 

 823 Clare Street

 
1927
Mrs. Marian H. Stowe
Marion Stowe

 

 823 Clare Street

1947
Mrs. Alice Greth

 

 825-827 Clare Street

1967
Young Men's Catholic Club
social club
(also had an address at
331-333 Division Street)

 

 827 Clare Street

Charles McCarthy
grocer
1890-1891

Clare & Pine Streets - August 2011

Clare & Division Streets - March 19, 2012

Looking North on Clare Street
March 19, 2012

Looking North on Clare Street - March 19, 2012

Clare & Division Streets - March 19, 2012

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Camden Courier-Post
January 26, 1932

Garfield S. Pancoast - Ralph Bakley
Pine Street - South 3rd Street
Daniel Soldo - Edgar Dorsey
James Leon  - Chestnut Street
Frank Durso - Van Hook Street
James Tortu - Royden Street
Ellick Tate - South 3rd Street
Frank Wairo - William Eldrige
Queenie Fauntleroy - North 11th street
Marion Miller - Francis Street
James Gimello - Clare Street
Herman Bird - Gladys West 
James Jones - West Street 
Lawrence McKenna - South 2nd Street
Hattie Barclay - Robert Dorsey - Locust Street
George Butler - Kaighn Avenue
Patrick Calfina - Emma Street



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Camden Courier-Post
February 4, 1932

Joseph Gimello
Clare Street
Albert E. Polasky
Magnolia Avenue
Stanley Adams
Morton Street


Camden Courier-Post
February 4, 1932

Louis Cistern
Cooper Street
Joseph Gimello
Clare Street
Garfield S. Pancoast

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