Streets
of
Camden, NJ

Elm Street


ELM STREET is another of Camden's "tree" streets, running west from the foot of the Delaware River to 11th Street. It was not laid out until after 1850, as it does not appear in the City Directory published for that year. It does appear in the 1863-1864 Camden City Directory. 

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

 Phil Cohen


Intersection of Delaware Avenue & Elm Street
  Camden Foundry Company
1940s
Riverfront State Prison
1980s-2006
Riverfront State Prison
1980s-2006
Intersection of Point Street & Elm Street

Southwest Corner

Warren Webster & Company
1893-1923

Factory as it appeared in 1895. The front door of the factory was on Elm Street.

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  Northeast Corner
600 Point Street

William G. Merkle
saloon
1900s-1910s

Caesar Campana Sr.
Caesar's Grille-Caesar's Sandwich Shop
1936-1943 
Johnny Moore's
1946-1970 

  Northwest Corner
601 Point Street

Peter Campana Family
Caesar Campana Sr.
1910s-1930s

Intersection of North Front Street & Elm Street
  Northwest Corner
521 North Front Street
David Payne
Coal
1880s-1890s

Intersection of North Front Street & Elm Street
  Elm Street

100 Block of Elm Street
  100 Block Street

North Baptist Church
1859-1860s

  106 Elm Street

Vincent A. Tydeman
1947

108-126 Elm Street

Looking West
on
Elm Street
from
North 2nd Street

April 18, 2004

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  108 Elm Street

Glenmore Stackhouse
1887-1888

Owen Stackhouse
1887-1891
Both were Camden Policemen

  110 Elm Street
  112 Elm Street
  114 Elm Street
  116 Elm Street
  118 Elm Street
  120 Elm Street
121-127 Elm Street

April 18, 2004

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  121 Elm Street
  122 Elm Street
  124 Elm Street
  125 Elm Street
  126 Elm Street
  127 Elm Street
  198 Elm Street
Looking West
on
Elm Street
from
North 2nd Street

April 18, 2004

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Looking West
on
Elm Street
from
North 2nd Street

April 18, 2004

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Intersection of North 2nd Street & Elm Street
Northeast Corner
 North 2nd & Elm Street

April 2, 1912

  Northwest Corner
 North 2nd & Elm Street

Imex Corporation
imprinters
1947


200 Block of Elm Street
200 to 212
  Elm Street

Looking East
on
Elm Street
from
North 2nd Street

April 18, 2004
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211 to 231
  Elm Street

Looking East
on
Elm Street
from
North 2nd Street

April 18, 2004
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200, 202 & 204
  Elm Street

Looking East
on
Elm Street
from
North 2nd Street

April 18, 2004
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200, 202 & 204
 Elm Street

Looking East
on
Elm Street
from
North 2nd Street

April 18, 2004
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200 Elm Street

April 18, 2004

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200 Elm Street

Samuel D. Payne
Payne Print Shop
1920s-1959

200-202 Elm Street

April 18, 2004

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  202 Elm Street

Sergeant Max F. Moritz
1940s-1950

Sergeant Moritz was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery in action during World War I

  202 Elm Street

William & Ella Hume
1940s-1950s

200-202 Elm Street

April 18, 2004

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204 Elm Street

Charles Jefferson "Jeff" Kay
1900s-1910s

  206 Elm Street
  208 Elm Street
210 Elm Street

Millwood Truscott
1890s

211 Elm Street

Samuel E. Johnson
1940s-1960s

  212 Elm Street
  213 Elm Street
  215 Elm Street
  217 Elm Street
  219 Elm Street
  221 Elm Street

Joseph A. Vermeeren Family
1920s-1960s

227 & 231
Elm Street

April 18, 2004

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217 to 231 Elm Street;
601-603 N. 3rd Street

April 18, 2004

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Intersection of North 3rd Street & Elm Street
  600 North 3rd Street

Pasquale 'Pat' Iarossi

227 & 231 Elm Street;
601-603 N. 3rd Street

Mancine's Liquor Store

April 18, 2004

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227 & 231 Elm Street;
601-603 N. 3rd Street

Mancine's Liquor Store

April 18, 2004

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300 Block of Elm Street
  305 Elm Street
310-320 Elm Street

Looking East
on
Elm Street
from
North 3rd Street

April 18, 2004
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  310 Elm Street
  312 Elm Street
  314 Elm Street

1950s-1958 Russell J. Anderson

  316 Elm Street
  318 Elm Street
  320 Elm Street

Harry B. Maxwell
Camden Fire Fighter
1929

  322 Elm Street
  324 Elm Street
  326 Elm Street
  328 Elm Street

Intersection of North 4th Street, Main Street, & Elm Street
  Elm Street

400 Block of Elm Street
  403 Elm Street
  405 Elm Street

D. Somers Risley
Conveyancer, real estate, and insurance Treasurer- West Jersey Title & Guaranty Company
Sarah Risley
Wallace Risley
1880s-1890s

  407 Elm Street
  408 Elm Street

John A. Rogers
1900s-1910s

  409 Elm Street

William J. Lorigan
1890s

  411 Elm Street
  412 Elm Street
  413 Elm Street
  414 Elm Street
  415 Elm Street
  416 Elm Street
  418 Elm Street
  420 Elm Street
  422 Elm Street

Intersection of North 5th Street & Elm Street
  Elm Street

500 Block of Elm Street
510 Elm Street

Elm Theatre

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510 Elm Street

Elm Theatre

Of course that reminds me of the Elm Theatre. Place was about three seats wide and five blocks long. Only it seemed that way!!! 

John Ciafrani
December 2005

  511 Elm Street
  512 Elm Street
  513 Elm Street
  514 Elm Street
  515 Elm Street
  516 Elm Street
  517 Elm Street
  518 Elm Street

MRS. HATTIE COTTON

The funeral of Mrs. Hattie Cotton, 49, of 519 Elm Street, who died Thursday, will be held at 2 p. m. Monday at Chambers Avenue and Washington Street. Burial will be private in New Camd en Cemetery. Mrs. Cotton was the wife of Frederick Cotton.

519 Elm Street

1933 Frederick & Hattie Cotton

Camden Courier-Post
June 3, 1933

  520 Elm Street
  521 Elm Street

1933 Frank Smith

  523 Elm Street
  524  Elm Street

1917 David J. Baxter Family
David J. & Leta B. Baxtere
Leta E. Baxter

  525 Elm Street
  526 Elm Street

Thomas Homan
1910s-1920s

  527 Elm Street
  528 Elm Street

Elisha A. Gravenor
1890s-1900s

  529 Elm Street
  530 Elm Street

Otto & Wilhelmina Dreher Family
Otto Dreher
William G. Dreher
Henry R. Dreher
Clara Dreher
Minnie Dreher
1900s-1930s

  530 Elm Street

Sergeant Otto Dreher

  531 Elm Street
  532 Elm Street

HE'S NOT QUITE CERTAIN

William P. Sweeten, 66, of 1245 Washington Street*, was treated at Cooper Hospital yesterday for cuts of the nose and head after he had been found wan4erlng in the vicinity of Fifth and Royden streets.

Detective Benjamin Simon declared Sweeten told varied incoherent stories of being robbed.

* This is an incorrect address. It does not exist. William Sweeten had lived at 533 Elm Street in the 1920s and early 1930s.

533 Elm Street

1920s-1930s William P. Sweeten

Camden Courier-Post
June 25, 1933

  533 Elm Street

W. Earl Doan
1940s

  534 Elm Street
  535 Elm Street
  536 Elm Street
  537 Elm Street
  538 Elm Street
  539 Elm Street

MRS. IDA STARLIPER

Funeral services will be held to morrow at 2 p. m. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Morris H. Shinn, 539 Elm Street, for their daughter, Mrs. Ida Starliper, who died Tuesday. Burial will be in Arlington Mausoleum. Mrs. Starliper is also survived by her husband; Robert.

539 Elm Street

1933 Morris H. Shinn

Camden Courier-Post
February 3, 1933

   

Intersection of North 6th Street & Elm Street
  Southwest Corner
538 North 6th Street

John L. Colsey
Dry Goods
1880s-1890s

Arthur Colsey
1880s-1890s
Samuel Molotsky
1947

  Southeast Corner

Northgate II Apartments
1950s-2006


600 Block of Elm Street
  601 Elm Street
  608 Elm Street
  609 Elm Street
  611 Elm Street
  613 Elm Street
  615 Elm Street
  616 Elm Street
  617 Elm Street
618 Elm Street

Private William Stanley Ablett

  618 Elm Street

James John Ablett Family
1910s-1920s

Benjamin F. Reighn
Trucking
1947

  619 Elm Street
  620 Elm Street
  621 Elm Street
  622 Elm Street
  623 Elm Street
  624  Elm Street
  625 Elm Street

Raymond C. Frech

  626 Elm Street
  627 Elm Street

Dr. V.R. Stone
1890s

  628 Elm Street
  629 Elm Street
  630 Elm Street
  631 Elm Street
  632 Elm Street
  633 Elm Street
  634 Elm Street
  635 Elm Street
  636 Elm Street

Conrad Hoer
1910s-1920s

  637 Elm Street
  638 Elm Street
  639 Elm Street
  641 Elm Street

Albert York
1900s-1920s
Mrs. Julienne Callahan
1947

  643 Elm Street
  645 Elm Street

Frank & Emma Wandsleben
1920s-1940s
Joe "Joe Wandy" Wandsleben
1920s-1930s

  600-638 Elm Street

Everything standing on the south side of the 600 block of Elm Street was razed in the 1960s so that Northgate II could be built.


Intersection of North 7th Street & Elm Street
  Southwest Corner

Northgate II Apartments
1950s-2006


700 Block of Elm Street
  706 Elm Street
  708 Elm Street
  709 Elm Street
  710 Elm Street
  711 Elm Street
  712 Elm Street
  713 Elm Street
  714 Elm Street
  715 Elm Street
  716 Elm Street
  717 Elm Street
  718 Elm Street
  719 Elm Street
  720 Elm Street
  721 Elm Street
  722 Elm Street
  723 Elm Street
  724  Elm Street
  725 Elm Street
  726 Elm Street
  727 Elm Street
  728 Elm Street
  729 Elm Street
  730 Elm Street
HERBERT DUFFIELD

Herbert Duffield, 44, of 731 Elm Street, employed as an instrument maker at the Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, died yesterday in West Jersey hospital. He had lived in Camden all his life. He is survived by his widow, Hilda. Funeral services will be held Thursday, p.m., at the funeral home of Joseph H. Murray & Son, 408 Cooper Street. Burial will be in New Camden cemetery.

731 Elm Street

1938 Herbert Duffield

Camden Courier-Post
February 8, 1938

  732 Elm Street
  733 Elm Street
  734 Elm Street
  735 Elm Street
  736 Elm Street
  737 Elm Street
  739 Elm Street

Intersection of North 8th Street & Elm Street
  Southwest Corner
547 North 8th Street

Litwin's Market
1940s-1960s

  Southwest Corner
801 Elm Street

Litwin Brothers' Market
1960s-2000s


800 to 814 Elm Street
  801 Elm Street

Litwin Brothers' Market
1960s-2000s

  803 Elm Street
  804 Elm Street
  805 Elm Street
  806 Elm Street
  807 Elm Street
  808 Elm Street
  809 Elm Street
  810 Elm Street
  811 Elm Street
  812 Elm Street
  813 Elm Street
  814 Elm Street

Intersection of Willard Street & Elm Street
   

815 to 831 Elm Street
  815 Elm Street
  816 Elm Street
  817 Elm Street
  818 Elm Street
  819 Elm Street
820 Elm Street

Fred Rossi
aka
Pee Wee Ross
1940s

  821 Elm Street
  822 Elm Street
  823-825 Elm Street

Wesleyan Methodist Church
 February 1938
Bible Presbyterian Church
1947
Camden Bible Tabernacle
2004

  824 Elm Street
  826 Elm Street
  827 Elm Street

 

  828 Elm Street
  829 Elm Street
  830 Elm Street

The John Lord Kaighn Family
John R. Kaighn
Lewis S. Kaighn
1910s-1920s

  831 Elm Street

Intersection of Linwood Street & Elm Street
  Elm Street

832 to 844 Elm Street
  832 Elm Street
  833 Elm Street

1947 John Bianchi
1969 Arthur Wood
1980 A. Class

833 Elm Street

1980s
Doña Tita Candelaria & Family
Nereida Candelaria
Julio Candelaria
Tata Candelaria
Carmin Candelaria
Maribel "Chiquita"  Candelaria
Amparo Candelaria
Olga Candelaria
Lucy Candelaria
Virginia Candelaria

  834 Elm Street
  835 Elm Street
  836 Elm Street

1947-1977 George E. Houck

  837 Elm Street
  838 Elm Street
  839 Elm Street

Neil Deighan
Richard Deighan
1910s-1920s

  839 Elm Street

Private John T. Deighan

840 Elm Street

Private First Class
Robert E. Watkins

THIEVES ROB BAKERY AND GROCERY STORE

While bakers were at work in an other part of the building, thieves entered the bakery of William Spengel, 825 Broadway, at 6.30 a. m. yesterday and stole $18 from a cash drawer. The theft was discovered when an employee, about to give change to a customer, found the money gone.

Thieves who entered the grocery store of Herman Kaimowitz, Ninth and Elm Streets, during the night, tore a pay telephone station from the wall and took it with them. A quantity of cigarettes also was stolen.

The windshield from the automobile of Earl Calhoun, Haddon Heights, was stolen while the machine was parked on Broadway near Market Street.

841 Elm Street

Hyman P. Kalmowitz
(also spelled Karmowitz & Kaimowitz)
Grocery
1933-1947

Courier-Post
June 29, 1939

JOHN W. PETERS

Funeral services for John W. Peters, 64, of 842 Elm Street, who died last Saturday in Cooper Hospital. will be held tomorrow, 2 p. m., at 453 South Sixth Street. He was a resident of Camden all his life. Surviving are his widow. Mary, two sons, John W. Jr., and William, four daughters; Mrs. Wallace Phifer, Mrs. John Stipps, Miss Anna Peters and Miss Anna Vandergrift, and a brother, William Peters. Burial will be in New Camden Cemetery.

842 Elm Street

John W. Peters
1938

Courier-Post
February 9, 1938

  844 Elm Street

Intersection of North 9th Street & Elm Street
  Elm Street

Intersection of Ray Street & Elm Street
  Elm Street

914 to 928 Elm Street
  914 Elm Street
  916 Elm Street
  918 Elm Street
  920 Elm Street
  922 Elm Street
  923 Elm Street
  924 Elm Street
  925 Elm Street
  926 Elm Street

1929 Edward Chambers

Use of 'Cheaters' Fails to Deceive Judge's Memory

The changeable eyesight of chronic offenders doesn't fool Police Judge Gene R. Mariano one bit.

Two men arrested as drunk and disorderly tried It In police court today but didn't get to first base. Instead, they got jail terms.

Several weeks ago Wesley Pigwood, 44, of 2390 Farragut Avenue, received a suspended sentence. Yesterday he appeared before Judge Mariano wearing smoked glasses.

"You can't fool me," Mariano said. "You were arrested three weeks ago and I gave you a chance. Now you’ll go to jail for 30 days."

Henry Brownson, 58, of 926 Elm Street, tried the same trick, with reverse English. Wearing glasses, he received a suspended sentence several weeks ago. Yesterday without glasses, he was haled before the court again. Mariano recognized him and sentenced him to 15 days.

926 Elm Street

1938 Henry Brownson

Camden Courier-Post
February 1, 1938

  926 Elm Street

1947 Arthur A. Olsson
Albert Olsson
George A. Ollson

  927 Elm Street
  928 Elm Street

Intersection of Borton Street & Elm Street
  Elm Street

929 to 947 Elm Street
  929 Elm Street
  930 Elm Street
  931 Elm Street
  932 Elm Street
  933 Elm Street
  934 Elm Street
  935 Elm Street
936 Elm Street

Woodrow & Marie Fairess
1937-April 1943

Shirley, Marie, Woody, Warren
and Bud Fairess
Location unknown, 1951

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  936 Elm Street
  937 Elm Street
  938 Elm Street
  939 Elm Street

James McSparrin
1947
William McSparrin
1939

  940 Elm Street
  941 Elm Street

Frank Sheridan
1932

  942 Elm Street
  943 Elm Street
  944 Elm Street
  945 Elm Street
  947 Elm Street

Intersection of North 10th Street & Elm Street
  Elm Street

Intersection of North 11th Street & Elm Street
  Elm Street

Chief of Department Edward Michalak steps back and takes a look at the "big picture" as heavy smoke pushed out of a cockloft area on a row of occupied dwellings in the 500 block of Elm Street. Fire occurred on May 31, 1967 and required a 3rd Alarm to control. Photo Courtesy of Bob Bartosz.


600 Block of Elm Street - July 4, 1972

"Master streams from street level go into service ion upper floors of fire dwellings, as "Truckies" in background prepare for main ladder service. Units operating at front of properties in above photo are Engine Company 1 and Ladder Company 3. Apparatus appearing in photo is a "Reserve series Ladder" on loan to the Camden Fire Department from the City of Brotherly Love. Fire occurred on 4 July 1972 at 6th and Elm Streets on Camden's North Side, and damaged ten dwellings before being confined, a Second Alarm for Box #1213 was required to control this worker." Photo Courtesy of R. Bartosz.

"Above photo clearly illustrates magnitude of fire at rear of properties in the 600 block of Elm Street on 4 July, 1974.  A common cockloft and a "good start" were responsible for the above scene, which produced a tough service for all hands involved. Fire resulted in one civilian death and numerous injuries to members." Photo courtesy of R. Bartosz"


Camden Courier-Post - February 6, 1934

BANDIT'S BULLET HALTS PURSUERS
Two Youths Escape After
Robbing North Camden Grocery Store

A bullet whizzing past them caused several men to cease pursuit of two bandits on Elm street near Ninth Saturday night after the pair had obtained $18.75 in the holdup of a grocery store proprietor at 841 Elm Street.

The victim was Herman Kalmowitz, whose store was broken into and robbed twice recently. Kacmowitz said the two youths, about 17 years old, entered and asked for candy. When he started to get it, one pointed a pistol at him and demanded that he "stick 'em up."

While the one "covered" him the with the weapon, the other robbed the cash register. As they fled, Kalmowitz ran after them screaming. His alarm attracted the attention of several men passing, who started in pursuit of the bandits east on Elm  street. One fired a pistol, however, and the men abandoned the chase.

The youths were about five feet five, Kalmowitz said, and wore gray caps. One had a dark gray overcoat and the other's was a light gray.

Detectives Joseph Carpani and Sylvester McGrath are investigating.

A purse-snatching and theft of a leather bag from an automobile also were reported to police. The theft of brass and copper fittings also is under investigation with a 17-year-old youth under arrest.

Anna Whiteman, 16, 1606 Pershing Street, reported that two boys, about 15, snatched her purse containing $1 while she walked with a companion, Ada Hans, 16, of 1342 Lansdowne Avenue, on Lansdowne near Norris Street. She pursued the boys but was compelled to give up the chase when she slipped and fell.

A black leather bag was stolen from the car of Frank Grotaski, of Cape May, parked Saturday night at Fifth and Arch Streets. The door of the car was forced open. The empty bag, minus clothes and letters it had contained, was found later by two boys in an alley on South Sixth street, near Stevens.

At liberty, under $500 bail, George Dotterer, 17, of 928 North Twenty-fourth street, is charged with larceny, although the brass and copper fittings he is suspected of stealing have not been identified as to ownership.

Dotterer was arrested by Patrolman Herbert Bott when the youth asked for aid in recovery of the fittings from a junk man to whom he had "sold" the goods. He said the man, George Elliott, of Twenty-fourth and Pierce avenue, kept the fittings and refused to pay him.

Bott presumed after examining the fittings "they could not have been picked up as junk" and arrested the youth in the belief they had been stolen from the Pavonia railroad shops. Detective Sergeant Joseph Tully declared the fittings had not been stolen from the shops. The boy is to face Police Judge Garfield Pancoast this morning.


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