Streets
of
Camden, NJ

Fern
 Street


FERN STREET runs east for three blocks from North 7th Street to North 10th Street between Linden and Pearl Streets in North Camden. Fern Street is probably best remembered for the bar at 800 Fern, known over the years as Clancy's Cafe, the New Mill Bar & Grille, Stew's Bar & Gril, and the Fern Grille. Much of Fern Street is no longer standing.

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

 Phil Cohen


1946 Map of Camden
Fern Street runs east from 7th Street, between Linden and Pearl Streets.


700 Block of Fern Street
  707 Fern Street

1924
1929 Frank Robinson
1947 Carlton Warwick

  709 Fern Street

1924
1929 Ernesrt E. McGee
1947 Charles Seeger

  711 Fern Street

1924
1929 John Olman
1947 Woodrow W. Ferrell

  713 Fern Street

1924
1929 Vacant
1947 Mrs. Florence L. Stiles

  714 Fern Street

1924
1929 Victor Grey
1947 Frank Kawecki
1947 Joseph H. Kawecki

  715 Fern Street

1894 John & Mary Irving
1894 Harry Irving
1929 Mrs. Margaret Peterson
1947 Vacant 

  716 Fern Street

1924
1929 Vacant 
1947
Mary Bernard

  717 Fern Street

1924 
1929 William F. Otto
1947 Mrs. Anna B. Conway

  719 Fern Street

1924
1929 Thomas A. Smith
1947 Mrs. Cecelia J. Homan

  721 Fern Street

1924
1929 Richard J. Furlong
1947 Vacant

  723 Fern Street

1924
1929 Vacant 
1947 William J. Tomlinson

  725 Fern Street

1924
1929 Vacant
1947 Mrs. Carrie L. DeRogatis

  727 Fern Street

1924
1929-1947 Mrs. Kathryn Merkle

  729 Fern Street

1924 
1929 No Listing
1947 Oscar J Miller

  731 Fern Street

1924
1929 James K. Lewis
1947 Edwin F. Taylor

  733 Fern Street

1917 Frederick Ballighoff Family
Frederick & Sadie Ballinghoff
Evelyn Ballinghoff
Arthur F. Ballinghoff

  733 Fern Street

1924-1929 John Humphreys
1947 Harold J. Swain

  735 Fern Street

1924
1929 Lawrence Lyman
1947 Robert Jarvis

  736 Fern Street

1924
1929 William H. Prickett
1947 Theodore Rettberg Jr.

  737 Fern Street

1920 Frederick Ballighoff Family
Frederick & Sadie Ballinghoff
Evelyn Ballinghoff
Arthur F. Ballinghoff

  737 Fern Street

1924Ralph Skill
1929 Mrs. Marian Smith
1947 No Return

  738 Fern Street

1929 Harry W. Anderson
1933 Samuel Schultz
1947 Thomas W. Loveland


800 Block of Fern Street
  800 Fern Street

1880s-1887 Rebecca Smith
boardinghouse
1888-1891 Dennis O'Leary
grocery
1902- September 1903 Jerry Sullivan
saloon
September 1903 Peter F. Morgan
saloon
1906 John Graham
saloon
1908-1910s John McGovern 
1910s-1924 Catherine McGovern
saloon
  1926-1936 Hugh P. Reilly
bar

800 Fern Street

1938-1949 Clancy's Cafe

Left: Mrs. Mary Clancy

Photo courtesy of
Cynthia Ackley Nunn

  800 Fern Street

1947 Albert Saunders
1947Robert M. Lawson

1954-1956 New Mill Bar & Grille  
1959 Stew's Bar & Grill 
1963-1968 Fern Grille
2004 Gone

  802 Fern Street

1924
1929 William Smith
1947 Arthur J. Lucha

  804 Fern Street

1924
1929 Bertram F. Matthe

1947 Richard F. Moll

  806 Fern Street

1924
1929-1947 Charles H. Brown

808 Fern Street

1918-1930s
Charles N. & Mary Ackley
Mary Ackley died in 1922
1930 Mildred Ackley McDonnell
1930 James Mc Donnell
1930 Charles Ackley Jr.
1930 Cynthia Ackley
1930 Regina Ackley
1930 Arthur Ackley

Left: Charles N. Ackley

 

  808 Fern Street

1947 Mrs. Ella M. Ferrell 

  809 Fern Street

1924
1929 Alma B. Miller 
1947 Venerando Cantarella 

  810 Fern Street

1924
1929 Vacant
1947 Jacob W. Lacey

  811 Fern Street

1924
1929 Carl M. Hubler
1947  Mrs. Minnie L. Beverage

  812 Fern Street

1924
1929 Norman L. McDonough
1947  Jacob Updegraff

  813 Fern Street

1924
1929 Edward M. Broderick
1947 Helen R . Pietrezyk

  814 Fern Street

1924
1929
1947

  815 Fern Street

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1929
1947

  816 Fern Street

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1947

  817 Fern Street

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1947

  818 Fern Street

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1929
1947

  819 Fern Street

Private Alfred W. Dilks
1900s-1910s

  819 Fern Street

Private Elmer Higgins Hunt
19
17

  819 Fern Street

1924
1929
1947

  820 Fern Street

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1929
1947 

  821 Fern Street

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1947

  822 Fern Street

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  824 Fern Street

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  825 Fern Street

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  826 Fern Street

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  827 Fern Street

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1929
1947

  828 Fern Street

1924 David J. Baxter Family
David J. & Leta B. Baxter
Leta E. Baxter
George P. Baxter

  829 Fern Street

1924
1929
1947

  830 Fern Street

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  831 Fern Street

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  832 Fern Street

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  833 Fern Street

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  834 Fern Street

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  835 Fern Street

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  836 Fern Street

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  837 Fern Street

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  838 Fern Street

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  839 Fern Street

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  840 Fern Street

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  841 Fern Street

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  843 Fern Street

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  845 Fern Street

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  847 Fern Street

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  849 Fern Street

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1947


Intersection of Fern Street & North 9th Street
   

900 Block of Fern Street
  907 Fern Street

1924
1929
1947 

  909 Fern Street

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1929
1947 

  911 Fern Street

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1929
1947

  913 Fern Street

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1929
1947

  914 Fern Street

1924
1929 Wilson Hambrose
19
31 William Elberson
1947

  915 Fern Street

1924
1929
1947

  916 Fern Street

1924
1929
1947

  917 Fern Street

1924
1929 Vacant
1947

  918 Fern Street

1924
1929 Vacant
1947

  919 Fern Street

1924
1929 Vacant
1947

  920 Fern Street

1924
1929 William M. Jenkins
19
32 Alda Prickett
1947

  921 Fern Street

1924
1929 Vacant

  921 Fern Street

Staff Sergeant Ronald J. Pearce
1929-1930s

  921 Fern Street

1947 

  922 Fern Street

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1924
1947

  923 Fern Street

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1929
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  924 Fern Street

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  925 Fern Street

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  926 Fern Street

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  927 Fern Street

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  928 Fern Street

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  929 Fern Street

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  930 Fern Street

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  931 Fern Street

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  932 Fern Street

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  933 Fern Street

1924
1929

THREE WIN DIVORCES ON STORIES IN COURT
2 Wives and a Husband Find . Complaints Unanswered; Elopement Annulled

Three divorces and an annulment were recommended yesterday by Advisory Master Erickson in Camden Chancery Court.

Mrs. Margaret Sheldon, 25, of 210 Ritchie Avenue, West Collingswood, testified her husband mixed a bad temper with drinking and as a result beat her from July, 1931, to March, 1936; when she left him. The husband, Stanley, now lives at 334 Vine Street.

Philip J. Marron, 620 Norway Avenue, Trenton, a traveling salesman, said his wife started an argument over his business trips that lasted three years. Mrs. Georgiana Marron resides at 933 Fern Street, Camden. Marron received custody of their four children.

Mrs. Betty Kushner, 28, of 1164 Empire Avenue, testified that her husband, Harry, 32, of Seventh and Thompson street, Philadelphia, deserted her four years after their marriage.

Mrs. Sheldon, Marron and Mrs. Kushner all won advisory divorce decrees.

An annulment was recommended for Emma Conneen, 23, of 6 Cove road, Merchantville, who eloped with Francis J., 3516 North Twenty-third street, Philadelphia, to Media in October, 1932. They never lived together as man and wife.

933 Fern Street

1938 Mrs. Georgianna Marron

Camden Courier-Post
February 9, 1938

  933 Fern Street

1947 August J. Lanni

  934 Fern Street

1924
1929
1947

  935 Fern Street

1924
1929 Charles Cramer
1947 Joseph S. Zippilli

CAMDEN INCORPORATIONS

North Camden Young Republican Association: principal office, 940 Linden Street; agent. Sidney Liss. Objects: To advance true principles of good government, to inspire the welfare of the individual members, to promote the spirit of democracy throughout its members, to create a stronger interest among its members toward the Republican party, to create a feeling of sociability and friendship among the members, and to encourage social intercourse among the Republicans of North Camden. Trustees: Sidney Liss, 940 Linden Street; William Kirk, 734 Vine Street; Joseph V. Anderson, 532 Rex Place; Frank Nelson Jr. 921 Vine Street; Wilfred Fournier, 424 Bailey Street; Oliver Gutherie, 935 Fern Street; Charles Johnson; 536 Rex Place.

935 Fern Street


1938 Oliver Guthrie

Camden Couroer-Post
February 2, 1938

  935 Fern Street


1947 Joseph S. Zippilli

  936 Fern Street

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1929
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  937 Fern Street

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  938 Fern Street

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1929
1947

  939 Fern Street

1924
1929 No Listing
1947

  940 Fern Street

1924
1929 Oliver Guthrie
1947


Satellite View of Fern Street - 2006

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Sequence of 4 photographs taken by Camilo José Vergara of Fern Street in North Camden from 1979-2004. Clockwise from top left 1979, 1988, 1997, 2004.


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