Streets
of
Camden, NJ

Market Street


MARKET STREET must have been named because it had a market, or was meant to anyway. The Market was actually at Third and Federal. Go figure! 

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

 Phil Cohen


Camden NJ - 1928

Everyone laments things in Camden that have been knocked down. Here is a photo that shows a time where a lot of places we take for granted hadn't yet been built. Click in the image to supersize this wonderful photo of Camden.... before City Hall, the Camden Trust, the Post Office & Federal Building, the Savar Theater, and Admiral Wilson Boulevard had been built!

Market Street, for those not in the know, runs in front of # 4, the then only two-years old Stanley Theater,

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Delaware River & Market Street
Foot of Market Street

West Jersey Ferry
aka
Pennsylvania Railroad
Philadelphia-Camden Ferry

Photo from 1888

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Photo Courtesy of Dave Boone

Foot of Market Street
 Philadelphia-Camden Ferry
Foot of Market Street
 Philadelphia-Camden Ferry
early 1920s

"Look Mom, there's no bridge!"

RCA Victor Factory
Campbell Soup Factory
Ridgeway Hotel 

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Foot of Market Street
 
1996

"I've Got Plenty of Nothing"

ALL GONE:
RCA Victor Factory
Campbell Soup Factory
The Ferry and Railroad Terminal 

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  1947
Pennsylvania Railroad Ticket Office
Union News Company
Railway Express Agency Inc.
Terminal Drug Store
Terminal Restaurant & Bar
Terminal Barber Shop
Carl G. Miller's Confectionary
Lee's Watch Repair Shop
William Reinhardt Bakery
Auto Parks Inc.
Looking East along Market Street
from above
The Delaware River

December 1956

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Intersection of Delaware Avenue & Market Street
Southeast Corner

Stephen Parsons
1884-1890

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Southeast Corner
West Jersey Hotel
1849-1909
Stephen Parsons
1884-1890
Camden Hotel
1909-1910s
Ridgeway Hotel
New Ridgeway Hotel
1910s-Late 1940s

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  Northeast Corner
Victor Talking Machine Company
RCA Victor Inc.
The Victor Apartments
Northwest Corner

West Jersey Wagon Works
Jacob Rettberg
&
Rudolph Preisendanz Sr.
1891-1900s


Unit Block of Market Street
  9 Market Street

1880s-1890s George C. Grant
saloon

9-1/2 Market Street

1880s-1900s A.C. Lamar
1880s-1900s Standard Window Glass Co. 

Horse cars furnished public transportation in Camden until 1896 when trolleys took aver. Seating about 25 persons, the cars were operated by Camden Horse Railroad Co., whose franchise was taken over by Public Service. In addition to destination signs, an advertisement was carried along the top. From the 1880s through at least 1906, Alonzo C. Lamar's paint supply business was on Market Street just east of Delaware Avenue, where RCA Victor buildings now stand. He also operated the Standard Window Glass Co. out of the same address. This photograph, from about 1881, was submitted to the Courier-Post in the 1950s by Mrs. S. E. Southard, of Wenonah.

11 Market Street

Peter C. Verga's
Modern Cafe & Restaurant

  1-31 Market Street

Victor Talking Machine Company
RCA Victor Inc.
The Victor Apartments

  2 Market Street

1947 Anthony Mattia
Restaurant

  4 Market Street

1947 New Ridgeway Barber Shop

  6 Market Street

1947 Jason Distribiting Co.
Wholesale Liquors

8 Market Street

Camden Heating Company
1905-1947 
George Frederick Kappel
&

George W.A. Kappel

Camden Courier-Post Newspaper Ad
January 1928

14 Market Street

Pennsylvania
Bottling & Supply Co., Ltd.,
Oscar Weidenhammer
1902-1912

14 Market Street

West Jersey Wagon Works
Lumber & Storage warehouse
Rudolph Preisendanz Sr.

1913 Camden City Directory Ad

  15-17 Market Street

West Jersey Wagon Works
Jacob Rettberg
1860s-1893

15-21 Market Street


Rudolph Preisendanz Sons
Rudolph Preisendanz Sr.
1890s-1920s1913 

Camden City Directory Ad

 

  16 Market Street

1947 T. Lee Haines Inc.
Paint

  18 Market Street

1918-1921 Harry J. Thompson
Saloon
1926-1931 William J. Thompson
Saloon

2 NABBED UNLOADING BEER BEHIND CAFE

Arrested by Federal agents from the Camden headquarters while unloading beer on George Street, in the rear of Thompson's Cafe, 18 Market Street, two men were held last night for hearings today before U. S. Commissioner Wynn Armstrong.

The men are Angus Patterson, 44 of 816 South Fourth Street, and Paul Moore, 33, of 2992 Constitution road. 

18 Market Street

Camden Courier-Post
October 31, 1931

  18 Market Street

1947 Otto Steiner
Bakery

18 Market Street

1950-1951 Elmer Parker
Luncheonette & Cigar Store

Benjamin Dzick
Edward Shapiro
John Moffa
Elmer Parker

  20 Market Street

1936 Victor Cafe
1940 Charles Harris
Saloon
1947 Mazer's Brass Rail
Bar
1954-1959 Sparkler's Brass Rail
Bar
1966-1970 Brass Rail Liquors
Bar & Liquor Store

  22 Market Street

Lenox Hotel
William Kilderry
1910s-1920s
Mrs. Sarah Kilderry
1910s-1920s 
(closed by 1947)

23 Market Street

Jesse Pratt
1890s-1900s
coal

24 Market Street

1920-1930s
Camden Wallpaper Company

  24 Market Street

1924
Camden Wall Paper Company

Thomas J. Wark

  25 Market Street

John W. Cheney
insurance
Millwood Truscott
insurance
1880s-1890s

  26 Market Street

1947 New York Restaurant

  27 Market Street

Robert Freeman
Thomas Freeman
Real Estate

  28 Market Street

1939-1943 William Swetkoff
Bar
1947-1970 Paul W. Swetkoff
Bar 
1936-1970
Coney Island Restaurant / Lunch
Bar

30 Market Street

1947
Camden Wall Paper Company

Thomas J. Wark

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Officer John Ferry, on motorcycle duty in front of Camden Wallpaper Co. at 30 Market Street, 1937

  31 Market Street

Augustus Reeve
Pea Shore Brick & Terracotta Works
1866-1890s

  34 Market Street

1870s-1890s
William Bleakly
lime & cement


Intersection of North Front & Market Streets
Market Street
Looking West
towards Front Street

1893

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  Southeast Corner
Front & Market Street

Farmers & Mechanics Bank
1855-1864

First National Bank of Camden
1864-1922

  Northeast Corner
Front & Market Street

West Jersey Press
1870-1914
Victor Talking Machine Company
RCA Victor Corporation
The Victor Apartments


100 & Block of Market Street
  103 Market Street

1873-1877
Trade Insurance Company
1887-188
 Louis Herbst's City Hotel
1890-1891 William F. Sanders
Saloon
1918-1919 Frank Hecht
Saloon
1920s Campbell Soup Plant

104 Market Street

Herbert N. Moffett
Architect
1926

105 Market Street

D.H. Condit & Co.
General Insurance
Daniel H. Condit & Edward N. Cohn

  105 Market Street

Roberts & Cohn
real estate company
Edward N. Cohn
Joseph E. Roberts Sr.
1880s-1890s

  106 Market Street

Howard M. Cooper
1870s-1914

106 Market Street


Thomas Ellis French

1876-1914

  106 Market Street

Bailey & Nelson
William T. Bailey
& A.B. Nelson
Construction & Real Estate
1880s-1890

  112 Market Street

1866-1889 Louis Herbst's City Hotel
1890-1891 William F. Sanders
Saloon
1918-1919 Frank Hecht
Saloon
1920s Campbell Soup Plant

 
119 Market Street
1812-1922
National State Bank
1922-1928
First Camden
National Bank & Trust
  120 Market Street
1883-1884 Henry Schulz
Saloon
124 Market Street
1890-1910s Frank X. Braun
Tailor
Otto E. Braun

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Caption is in error,
according to Census & Sity Directories

  125 Market Street

Camden Manual Training & High School
1894-1900

  100 Market Street
Campbell Soup Company
  100 Market Street
L3 Communications

Intersection of North 2nd & Market Streets
Northwest Corner
1812-1922

National State Bank
1922-1928
First Camden
National Bank & Trust

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Photo from 1915

Northwest Corner
1812-1922

National State Bank
1922-1928
First Camden
National Bank & Trust

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Photo from 2004

Northwest Corner

1812-1922
National State Bank
1922-1928
First Camden
National Bank & Trust

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Photo from 2004

Looking West
from 200 Block

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Photo from 2004

   

200 Block of Market Street
Market Street
Looking East
from North 2nd Street

1893

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200-415
Market Street
1926

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  200-202 Market Street
1918-1947 Kernan's Cafe
1918-1930 Owen Kernan 
1939-1947 Joseph B. & James P. Kernan 
  201 Market Street

1936-1940 Delight Grill
1939 Nicholas Stafre & Christopher Manou

  203 Market Street

1947 Johnnie's Bar 
1954-1959 Sylvera Bar
1964-1977 J Bar & Liquor

At some point 201 & 203 Market Street were merged into one business, 205 Market Street was later acquired and merged in.

  204
Market Street

1947 T.L. Bear
Jeweler

  205
Market Street

John W. Wescott
Lawyer
1880s

1947
Camden Wholesale
Confection & Tobacco Company

201-203-205
Market Street

1978-2006 Hanks Bar & Grill

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Photo from 2004 Courtesy of Craig Campbell

  206 Market Street

1910s-1950s Braun's Tailors

  207 Market Street

J. Willard Morgan
1877-1890s

  207 Market Street

Lawrence Burton Reader
1908-1918

  207 Market Street

Charles M. Abrahamson
1924-1926

  207 Market Street

Corporal Edward L. Golden
1929-1930s

  207 Market Street

James Burlotos
Fruits
1947 

  208 Market Street

1947 Cocosis Brothers Restaurant

  209 Market Street

1947 New Deal Restaurant
Nicholas Kouvatas

  210 Market Street

1918-1919 Frederick G Moebius Saloon
1928 Paul Draper
Beauty Parlor
1947 Campbell Soup Plant

  211 Market Street

1934 The Oasis Bar
1947 Champion Shoe Repair

  213 Market Street

Late 1880s
Richard A. Wills
Plumbing Supplies 

1890-1891
John McCormack's Saloon
Richard Daly

213 Market Street

1912
Gaskill's Hotel

Camden Post-Telegram
October 14, 1912

  215 Market Street

1947 Charles F. Albrecht
Billiards
1947 S.C. Baylin
Radio Repair

  217 Market Street

1927-1928 Joseph Welch
1947 Angles Restaurant

201-217 Market Street

July 25, 1976
Fire at 205 Market Street

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  219 Market Street

1920s-1933
Joseph D. Wenzelle
"bookie"
1930s-1947
Oscar G. Bendler
Cigars

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221 Market Street

1947 
Visceglia Brothers Barbershop
Camden Athletic Corporation

promotors

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2004 Photo
219 is white building at far left 

  222 Market Street

1947 Campbell Soup Company
Employees Entrance

223 Market Street

1947 Joseph Mayer Bakery

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2004 Photo
221 is red building, second from left 

  224 Market Street

1883-1884 Edward Rimke Saloon

224 Market Street

Columbia Hotel
1887-1901 

  224 Market Street

1918-1921 John Reilly Saloon
1936-1943 Hi Hatters Club
 Hi-Hat Grill 1956 High Hat Club
1959-1984 Bell Bar

225 Market Street

1947 Kathleen Callahan
residence

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2004 Photo
223 is tan building with green bay window 

  226 Market Street

1947 Leon Wanicur Luncheonette

227-229 Market Street

1880s-1890s Caleb Parry
Flour and Feed
1936 West Jersey Cafe
Shamus Maguire, proprietor 
1939-1947 Homo's
Charles Marion, proprietor 
1954-1977 Terminal Bar & Liquor
1990-2004 Market Street West

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2004 Photo
227-229 is L-shaped building at right 

228
Market Street

Thomas S. Pancoast
Confectioner

1908-1923

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228
Market Street

Joseph H. Deacon Co.
Joseph H. Deacon
Leather Goods

1920s-1970s

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228 & 232
Market Street

Joseph H. Deacon Co.
Joseph H. Deacon
Leather Goods

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1926 Photo

  231 Market Street

Marcouse Building

  232 Market Street

1947 Minnesota-Connor Mines Inc
(this became the 3M Corporation- PMC)


Intersection of North 3rd & Market Streets
North 3rd & Market Streets

City Market
1837-1871

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North 3rd & Market Streets

Looking East
from in front of
225 Market Street

1900

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North 3rd & Market Streets

Looking East
from in front of
225 Market Street

1900

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North 3rd & Market Streets

Looking East
from in front of
225 Market Street

1900

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Southeast Corner

West Jersey Title & Guarantee Co.

1888-1950s

1913 Camden City Directory Ad

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Southeast Corner

West Jersey Title & Guarantee Co.

1888-1950s

1917 Camden City Directory Ad

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  Southeast Corner

West Jersey Trust Company
1906-1927
West Jersey-Parkside Trust Company
1927-late 1930s
Southwest Corner

Baker-Flick Company
Department Store
1900s-1930s

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  Northwest Corner
1947
N.J. Department of Motor Vehicles
1947
John R. Welch Jr.

Real Estate
   

300 Block of Market Street
300 Block of Market Street

Looking East
from in front of
225 Market Street

1900

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300 Block of Market Street

Looking East
from in front of
228 Market Street

1908

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300-415
Market Street
1926

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301-333
Market Street
1926

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  300 Market Street

1947
New Jersey State
Unemployment Compensation Commission Regional Auditing Office

301 Market Street

Security Trust Building
1886-2006
Arthur Truscott, architect

Francis D. Weaver
and
John W. Wescott
Lawyers
1890s

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301 Market Street

Security Trust Building

Samuel J.T. French Sr.
and
Samuel T.J. French Jr.
Lawyers
1910s-1970s

Photo from 1926

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301 Market Street

Security Trust Building

Photo from 2001

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301 Market Street
Security Trust Building
Burd Wallpaper & Floorcovering Co.
1959 Banquet Program Ad
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  304-306 Market Street

1947
Irene A. Clow, Notary
New Jersey Corporate Guarantee & Trust

307 Market Street

Lewis Liberman
1920s

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307 Market Street

Lawrence Liberman
1920s

1947 "The Cramer Building"
1947 Harker Associates
William T. Harker
consulting engineers
1947 Charles W. Russ & Company
insurance
1998-2006 Hector's Place
grocery

Photograph March 16, 2003

 

309 Market Street

Fithian Simmons
undertaker
1890s-1918

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309 Market Street

Simmons & Taylor
undertakers

Fithian S. Simmons

January 27, 1908 Newspaper Ad

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  309 Market Street

Wilmer Mason Wheeler
undertaker
1918-1920s

309 Market Street

Fithian S. Simmons Co.
1918-1920s

Camden Courier-Post
February 22, 1927

  309 Market Street

1947 Attilio C. Marino
lawyer
1947 Bart A. Sheehan
lawer
1947 Charles L. Rudd
lawyer
1947 Thomas M. O'Neill Company
accountants

310 Market Street

1940s-1960s
Clan Manufacturing Company
Janitorial Supplies

May 19, 1964 
Camden Courier-Post Newspaper Ad

  311 Market Street

Camden Opera Company
1887-1889

John Fort, president
H. F. Hunt, vice president
Richard Fetters Smith, treasurer
Jehu Evans, secretary 

311 Market Street

Jorge's Beauty Salon
2003

Photograph March 16, 2003

312 Market Street

D.A. Henderson & Co.
Insurance

February 20, 1909 
Camden daily newspaper ad

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  312 Market Street

1924 TAYLOR HALL
1924-1929 William E. Lovett Jr.
Plumber
1924 Modica & Rosa
Shoemakers
1929 Ralph Fabio
Shoe Repair
1924-1929 Joshua C. Jefferis
real estate
1924-1929 Howard L. Miller
lawyer
1924-1929 Francis G. Homan
lawyer
1924 Clemson C. England
constable
1929 Rieger & Gretz Brewing Company 

  312 Market Street

Unemployed Union of New Jersey
Frank J. Manning
1933

  312 Market Street

Young People's Socialist League
1932-1933

  312 Market Street

1947 Jehovah's Witnesses
1947 Robert C. Perina
accountant
1947 Frederick Rein
real estate
1947 Mrs. Margaret Krause

  313 Market Street

First Lieutenant
Frank W. Davis

313 Market Street

2005

Photo Courtesy of Craig Campbell

313 Market Street

Photograph March 16, 2003

1923-?
Robert D. Clow Jr.
Insurance

314 Market Street

Freeman Brothers
Real Estate & Insurance

Clarence Freeman
Edgar Freeman
1914 -  late 1930s

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315 Market Street

Cooper B. Hatch Company
Cooper B. Hatch
Real Estate & Insurance
1910s-1920s

315 Market Street

Cooper B. Hatch Company
Joseph H. Forsyth
Real Estate & Insurance
1910s-1920s

315 Market Street

Creely & Shirley Inc.
Office Supplies

Camden Courier Post Ad
February 20, 1936

315 Market Street

Dr. Henry Francis Hunt
1880s-1895
Dr. Willis H. Hunt
1878-1900

E.R. Morehouse

1926

Building Photograph March 16, 2003

  316 Market Street

 

  317 Market Street

John F. Harned
1880s-1893
George H. Pierce
1890s-1900s
Henry Ford Stockwell
1890s-1924
Edwin G. C. Bleakly
1904-1924
Harold W. Bennett
1936

317 Market Street

George H. Pierce
1890s-1900s
Henry Ford Stockwell
1890s-1924
Edwin G. C. Bleakly
1904-1924

The law firm founded by George Pierce took on H.F. Stockwell as a partner in the 1890s. The firm became Bleakly & Stockwell in 1904, and in 1923, with the addition of Albert E. Burling, Bleakly, Stockwell, & Burling. Later known as Bleakly, Stockwell, & Zink, the firm remained in business in Camden at 317 Market Street through at least 1977.

318 Market Street

1908-1939 The Stag Cafe
1940 Mrs. Elizabeth C. Miller
1947-1956  Majestic Restaurant

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  319 Market Street

Frank P. Middleton
Undertaker
1883-1889

1947 Edwin Segal
Lawyer
1947 Albert B. Melnik
Lawyer

  320 Market Street

1920-1922 Bronislaw Piontkowski
1947 Faith Tabernacle School
1930s-1940s S. Levy Company
1947 Milton Berger

  321 Market Street
322 Market Street

R.N. Clifton
chiropodist

Camden Courier-Post Ad
February 22, 1927

322 Market Street

Posternock
Beauty Salon

Camden Courier-Post Ad
October 30, 1931

  322 Market Street

1947 Cecilia Bailie
Corsetiers
1947 Floyd Straub
1947 Robert Clifton
chiropodist

322 Market Street

1960s-1970s
Dewees Typewriter Company

Camden Courier-Post Ad
June 6, 1960

322 Market Street

1971 Dewees Typewriter Company

August 4, 1971
Camden Courier-Post Newspaper Ad

  323 Market Street

1870s-1880s
Richard Outwater

1947 Gem Products Sales Inc.
soap manufacturers
1947 Tucker Realty Company

2004 Erenia Levinia

  324 Market Street

Tommy the Barber
mid 1930 - late 1940s

1947 also 5 apartments

325 Market Street

George J. Hemmer, Caterer
1912-1914

Camden Post-Telegram
October 14, 1912

  325 Market Street

1947 Solomon Building
In 1947 8 Offices

325 Market Street

2005

  326 Market Street

1947 Amato's Italian Restaurant
Anthony Amato

  327 Market Street

Dr. Purnell W. Andrews
Offices
1880s-1912

327 Market Street

Richardson A. Roberts
lawyer

1919 Camden High School
Purple & Gold Yearbook

328 Market Street
1920s-2006
A.S. Woodruff Building
Albert S. Woodruff

1947 Luethy & Flemming
Lawyers
1947 Barney B. Brown
Lawyer
1947 Carl Kisselman

Lawyer

1947 Albert E. Heal Jr.
Lawyer
1947
Sun Life Assurance Company
of Canada
1947 Arch Book Compnay
1947 Rocco Palese
Lawyer
1947 Bruce A. Wallace

Lawyer

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April 2003 Photo

  329 Market Street

Dr. Purnell W. Andrews
residence
1870s-1912

1947 Hartley Priestley
residence
330 Market Street

1920s-2006 Law Building
1947 Starr, Summerill & Lloyd
Lawyers
1947 S. Lewis Davis
Lawyer
1947 William G. Bischoff

Lawyer

1947 Warren C. Douglas
Lawyer
1947 Sidney P. McCord Jr.
Lawyer
1947 Carroll & Taylor
Lawyers

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April 2003 Photo

  331 Market Street1947 1947 Nick's Restaurant
Terry Matis
  333 Market Street1947 1947 Bernard Lowden
Cigar Manufacturer

Intersection of North 4th & Market Streets
301-415 Market Street

1926

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Northeast Corner
North 4th & Market Street

United States Post Office
&
Federal Building
1930s-2006

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Southeast Corner
North 4th & Market Street

United Tire Stores Company

Camden Courier-Post Advertisement
September 12, 1929

Southeast Corner
North 4th & Market Street

United Tire Stores Company

Camden Courier-Post Advertisement
February 4, 1933

   
   

 

 
   
   
   

400 Block of Market Street
401-415 Market Street

1926

401-431 Market Street

1970

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401-421 Market Street

1930s-2006
United States Federal Building
Post Office and Federal Courthouse

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401-421 Market Street

1930s-2006
United States Federal Building
Post Office and Federal Courthouse

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  402-404 Market Street

1947 W.A. Clarke Company
Real Estate & Mortgages

  405 Market Street

1924 Vacant

  406 Market Street
  407 Market Street

1924 Conrad Hoer
barber
1924 Mrs. Jennie Gondolff

  408 Market Street
  409 Market Street

1887-1891 Thomas O'Hara's Saloon
1924 Creeley & Shirley
stationers

  407-409 Market Street

1900-1919
Temple Bar & Hotel

410 Market Street

1930s-1940s
Dewees & Rosengarten
Robert Rosengarten
Typewriters

February 4, 1933
Camden Courier-Post Newspaper Ad

411-419 Market Street
Temple Theater
1892-1930s

At left: 407-409 Market Street,  Temple Bar & Hotel

At right: 423 Market Street

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411-419 Market Street
Temple Theater
1892-1930s

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411-419 Market Street
Temple Theater
1892-1930s

At right: 423 Market Street