Streets
of
Camden, NJ

Park
Boulevard


PARK BOULEVARD got its name from from the parks (Red Hill, Forest Hill, and Farnham) which it originally skirted. It is one of the three main thoroughfares of the Parkside neighborhood, the others being Kaighn Avenue and Baird Boulevard. It begins at Haddon Avenue as a continuation of Chestnut Street, heading north before curving east more or less parallel to the Cooper River, crossing Baird Boulevard and Kaighn Avenue before coming to an end at Vesper Boulevard, which is the border of Harleigh Cemetery.

Park Avenue landmarks include the Pearlye Building, Camden High School, Farnham Park, and Pomona Hall, the home of the Camden County Historical Society. More recent significant buildings include the Boys and Girls Club, built on the site where the Congregation Beth El Synagogue stood from the 1920s through the late 1990s, and the Faison Mews senior citizens apartments, which opened in 2006.

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

 Phil Cohen


Intersection of Park Boulevard & Haddon Avenue, circa 1910


1200 block of Park Boulevard
  1250 Park Boulevard

Dr. Charles H. Jackson, Physician
1910s-1972

1252 Park Boulevard

Dr. Hubert MacGeorge, Dentist
1910s-1930s
Camden Courier-Post - October 30, 1931

1252 Park Boulevard

Dr. Hubert MacGeorge, Dentist
1910s-1930s
Camden Courier-Post - October 30, 1931

1256 Park Boulevard

2006

TRIP TO CITY JAIL ENDS PARKSIDE SCRAP

Charged with disturbing the peace, Mrs. Stella Wilkinson, 30, and Harry Mattison, 51, both of 1259 Park Boulevard, were arrested last night by Policeman Joseph Mardino

At police headquarters each preferred slander charges against the other. Mardino was summoned when the couple's quarrel disturbed the neighbors. 

1252 Park Boulevard

1933 Mrs. Stella Wilkinson
1933 Harry Mattison

Camden Courier-Post - June 19, 2007

 

  1275 Park Boulevard

1300 block of Park Boulevard
  1300 Park Boulevard
1314 Park Boulevard

1914 Henry L. "Harry" Barroway

Members of the Auxiliary to Thoirs Post of the American Legion, gave a bon voyage party in honor of Mrs. Anne D. Spooner of this city, at the home of Mrs. Albert Wehner, 1 West Palmer avenue, Collingswood, on Wednesday evening. Mrs. Spooner sails on June 30 on the S. S. Excelsior for a Mediterranean cruise. 

1324 Park Boulevard

1929-1933 Anne D. Spooner
teacher

Camden Courier-Post
June 23, 1933

3 CAMDEN STUDENTS GET DEGREES AT N. Y. U.

Three Camden residents, including two school teachers, were among the 4,000 students graduated from New York University  yesterday at the 101st commencement exercises at Ohio Field, University Heights, New York.

The Camden students are Miss May Marchant, 422 Linden Street, teacher at Woodrow Wilson Junior High School, Bachelor of Science degree in School of Education, Bella Polivnick, 1449 Ormond Avenue, teacher in Camden High School, Bachelor of Science degree in School of Education, and Charles E. Hutchinson, 1353 Park Boulevard, Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering.

1353 Park Boulevard

1933 Charles E. Hutchinson

  1373 Park Boulevard

1400 block of Park Boulevard
  1401 Park Boulevard
1403 Park Boulevard

The Stanton Family
1930s-1940s

Mrs. Margaret Stanton
Robert Stanton (at left)
Donald Stanton

  1404 Park Boulevard

Martin & Blanche Ginsburg
1940s-1960s

  1420 Park Boulevard

1500 block of Park Boulevard
  1500 Park Boulevard
  1502 Park Boulevard
WOMAN HURT IN CRASH

Mrs. Rose Paiano, 26, of 1522 Park Boulevard, was treated at Cooper Hospital yesterday for cuts of the right shoulder, suffered in an automobile collision at Seventh and Pine Streets. Her husband, Michael, 33, was driving, unhurt. Driver of the other car was Thomas Penn, 20, of 274 Walnut Street.

1522 Park Boulevard

1933 Michael & Rose Paiano

Camden Courier-Post
June 12, 1933

  1504 Park Boulevard

The Coskey Family

  1587 Park Boulevard

1600 block of Park Boulevard
 
1605 Park Boulevard
  1605 Park Boulevard
  1607 Park Boulevard
  1607 Park Boulevard
  1609 Park Boulevard
  1609 Park Boulevard
  1619 Park Boulevard

Parkview Court Apartments
-2004
Faison Mews
2006-

  1633 Park Boulevard

Parkview Court Apartments
-2004
Faison Mews
2006-

  1635 Park Boulevard
  1637 Park Boulevard
  1641 Park Boulevard
  1643 Park Boulevard
  1650 Park Boulevard

Camden High School
1918-

  1655 Park Boulevard

The Pearlye Building
apartments

  1667 Park Boulevard
  1675 Park Boulevard
1689 Park Boulevard
Louis L. Markowitz
Electrical Contractor
  1691 Park Boulevard

1700 block of Park Boulevard
  1700 Park Boulevard
  1701 Park Boulevard
  1709 Park Boulevard
  1725 Park Boulevard

Congregation Beth El
1924-1968
St. Bartholomew's Catholic School
1980s-1990s

razed in the 1990s

  1725 Park Boulevard

Camden Boy's & Girls Club
Marjorie & Lewis Katz Clubhouse
1990s-

  1777 Park Boulevard
  1779 Park Boulevard
  1781 Park Boulevard

1800 block of Park Boulevard

1803 Park Boulevard

1805 Park Boulevard

1807 Park Boulevard

1809 Park Boulevard

1811 Park Boulevard

1825 Park Boulevard

Cooper B. Hatch Junior High School 
1924-


1860 Park Boulevard

1862 Park Boulevard

1864 Park Boulevard

1866 Park Boulevard

1868 Park Boulevard

1870 Park Boulevard

1872 Park Boulevard

1874 Park Boulevard

1900 block of Park Boulevard

1900 Park Boulevard

Charles S. Boyer Memorial Hall
of the
Camden County Historical Society


1904 Park Boulevard

Camden High School
Athletic Grounds 

  1989 Park Boulevard

1950s Rev. H.H. Watts & Family
Tim Watts 

Ames Held In Slaying In Camden

A 47-year-old Atlantic City man is being held without bail in Camden County jail today awaiting grand jury action on a murder charge. Municipal Judge George E. Stransky Jr. yesterday ordered

Anderson Ames of the 1900 block Huron Avenue held in connection with the June 11 fatal shooting of Rudolph Brown, 57, of 1975 Park Boulevard. Camden police say the shooting took place in the home of Herbert (Midnight) Johnson, 52, of the 200 block North 10th Street.  

  Brown died a few minutes after being admitted to Cooper Hospital with a chest wound. Ames, who police report was wounded in the head during the same incident, was released from that hospital's intensive care unit Monday.   

   Johnson, who has been released in $2,000 bail pending an August 1 hearing on charges of  possessing lottery paraphernalia, was permitted to sign his own $1,000 bail bond for appearance before the grand jury as a material witness.

    Police claim to have found more than 5,000 numbers slips while searching his home.

   Ames appeared at yesterday's hearing in a wheel chair. Among witnesses who testified yesterday were Jesse A. Jones,  50, of the 1100 block Cooper Street, Leon Williams, 65; of Kentucky Avenue, Atlantic City, and Hugh Johnson, 34, of the 800 block Cherry Street. Williams was freed in $1,000 bail as a material witness.

  Jimmie. L. Harrison, 31, of the 1900 block Norris Street and Leroy Butcher, 34, of the 5900 block Lansdowne Avenue, Philadelphia also are free in bail as material witnesses.

 Neither Harrison nor Butcher was at yesterday’s hearing the judge said he surmised they had not had sufficient notice to appear.

1975 Park Boulevard

1967 Rudolph Brown

Camden Courier-Post
July 20, 1967

 


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