Camden Streets - Arch Street

ARCH STREET lays between Federal and Market Street in Downtown Camden. At one the street ran from Delaware Avenue though to North 5th Street, and the street was a well known thoroughfare. Over the years various projects have encroached on Arch Street, if weren't looking, you would never know it was there... or ever had been.

Arch Street at one time had the Collings Carriage Company, which became the Campbell Soup Company garage, Camden Commercial College, and several other businesses. There were three well known bars, Oetzel's Saloon, the Arch Cafe, and the Genova Cafe. The Cooperson Brothers auto body shop had one of their buildings on Arch Street as well.

Probably the most notable building to sit on Arch Street was the old Camden Fire Department building at 5th and Arch Street. The Masonic Temple sat on 4th Street, just off of Arch for many years, until it was razed to make way for the Camden Fire Department's administration building.

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

Phil Cohen

100 Block of Arch Street
	100-124 Arch Street 1947 Campbell Soup Co. garage
	101 Arch Street 1924 Jacob Maurer bar 1947 gone
	107 Arch Street 1924 Lambert & Todd Machine Co. Camden Courier-Post Ad March 12, 1930 1947 gone
	120 Arch Street 1924 Camden Carpet Cleaning Works 1947 gone
	126 Arch Street 1924 Samuel Lawson 1947 gone
	128 Arch Street 1924 Mrs. Katherine Foster 1947 gone
	130 Arch Street 1924 Annie H. Hampton grocery
	132 Arch Street 1924 Mrs. Margaret Davis 1947 gone
	134 Arch Street 1924 Katherine Skillman 1947 gone
	136 Arch Street 1924 Rebecca Bowman bar 1947 gone

200 Block of Arch Street
	200 Arch Street 1924 Joeph Goldenberg pocket billiards 1947 Arch Cafe
	201 Arch Street 1924 August A. Fuehren bar 1924 Carl Fuehren 1947 gone
	205 Arch Street 1924 Mrs. Margaret McVey 1947 gone
	206 Arch Street 1924-1947 Joseph Genovese barber
	207 Arch Street 1924 Mary E. Burket 1947 gone
	208 Arch Street 1924 George F. Barry 1947 vacant
	209 Arch Street 1924 Ivy Garwood 1947 gone
	210-214 Arch Street Israel & Lena Schatz Family George Schatz 1910s-1920s
	210-216 Arch Street 1920s-1930s George's auto repairs George Schatz October 30, 1931
	210-216 Arch Street 1920s-1930s George's auto repairs George Schatz August 2, 1933
	210-216 Arch Street 1920s-1930s George's auto repairs George Schatz Click on Image to Enlarge
	210-216 Arch Street 1947 Town Garage
	216 Arch Street 1924 John Conway harnessmaker
	218 Arch Street 1924 Mrs. Clara Burroughs 1924 Dorothea A. Frye
	220 Arch Street 1924 North Camden garage 1947 Stradling's Auto Radiator Shop
	222 Arch Street 1924 Linwood Dunham 1947 gone
	223 Arch Street 1924 Harry Hinchman carpenter 1947 gone
	225 Arch Street 1924 Vacant 1947 gone
	226 Arch Street 1924 Arch Street Garage 1947 gone

300 Block of Arch Street
	Northeast Corner 3rd & Arch Street 1947 Railway Express Agency
	304 Arch Street 1924 Frank J. Richard
	306 Arch Street 1919 The Quality Press 1924 The Quality Press
	304-306 Arch Street 1947 Genova Cafe Joseph Macciocca, owner
	308 Arch Street 1924 Vacant 1947 Mrs. Ellen Fox
	310 Arch Street 1924 Lloyd O. Collins
	312 Arch Street 1947 Leslie Hallowell
	314 Arch Street 1924 James E. Kelter carpenter 1947 William R. Coursen
	316 Arch Street 1924 Mrs. Martha T. Randolph 1947 Joseph T. Bray
	318 Arch Street 1924 Neal Taylor 1947 Alcorn David E. Alcorn
	319 Arch Street 1924 Mrs. Anna Swope
	320 Arch Street 1880s Joseph Moore Family 1880s Harry K. Moore 1924 Mrs. Susanna Shaw 1947 Stephen E. Hamel
	321 Arch Street 1924 William H. Swope 321 Arch Street was badly dameged by a fire on December 29, 1939 and subsequently razed.
	322 Arch Street 1924 Robert W. Diament
GROCER PAYS $10 FINE AS NUMBERS WRITER Curt Shuster, 48, of 7521 Rudderow Avenue, Pennsauken, proprietor of a grocery at 7709 Park Avenue, was fined $50 and costs last night as a numbers writer by Recorder George E, Yost. He was arrested yesterday through a trap set by Police Inspector Thomas Thorpe, who in plain clothes, prevailed on a resident to go to Shuster's store and buy a number for him. Thorpe watched the transaction and nabbed Shuster. Thorpe did not identify his "go-between." Jack Press, 28, of 322 Arch Street Camden, was fined $25 and costs on a charge of malicious mischief preferred by Mrs. Mabel Durham, of Park avenue. Mrs. Durham charge that Press, during a visit to her home, went upstairs and cut up tw dresses and a coat.	322 Arch Street 1933 Jack Press Camden Courier-Post June 15, 1933
	323 Arch Street 1924 Mrs. Ruthanna D. Clements
	324 Arch Street 1924 Gresimer Printing Company
	324 Arch Street 1947 Ad Print Service signs
	325 Arch Street Camden Courier-Post Advertisement February 24, 1928
	325 Arch Street 1930s Click on Image to Enlarge
	325 Arch Street 1930s Charlie Aceto's Drive It Yourself Truck Rental & ESSO Gas Station Click on Image to Enlarge
	326 Arch Street 1947 Camden Commercial School (rear entrance)
	327 Arch Street 1924 John Clements
	329 Arch Street 1924 Garden State Chickery
	325-329 Arch Street Cooperson Auto Body Building #2 2003 This building has been used by Cooperson's since the 1940s Click on Image to Enlarge
	330 Arch Street 1924 Walter T. Moore 1947 Food-Tobacco-Agricultural & Allied Workers Local 80 CIO
	331 Arch Street 1924 Acme Awnings & Tent Works 1947 Sage Brothers awnings 1947 Walter Sage
	332 Arch Street 1924 John Hose locksmith
	332-334 Arch Street 1947 Courtney-Jensen Mfg Co. Inc. textile consultants
	333 Arch Street October 3, 2003 1924 vacant 1936 Philip Zinman, Realtor
	334 Arch Street 1924 Emma Maines
	336-338 Arch Street 1890s-1920s B.F. Schroeder & Sons Co. undertakers Bernhard F. Schroeder B.C. Schroeder

400 Block of Arch Street
	401 Arch Street Camden Homeopathic Hospital & Dispensary Association 1885-1890
	401 Arch Street 1924 George G, Hand & Son fish 1947 Gone
	403 Arch Street 1924 Joseph Osippi 1947 Gone
	405 Arch Street 1924 Joshua Boyd 1947Gone
	407 Arch Street Early 1880s Dr. Onan B. Gross 1924 Nathan Gregory milk 1947 Myron W. Miller Electric Company
	410 Arch Street 1924 Frank U. Taylor 1947 Gone
	411 Arch Street 1924 Camden Auto Sales Co., Inc.
	411 Arch Street Greenwood Motor Company Hudson-Essex Automobile Dealer 1928
	411 Arch Street Cutler Auto Body Service Herman Z. Cutler Camden Courier-Post October 22, 1931
	411 Arch Street 1947 Federal Street Sheet Metal Works
	412 Arch Street 1924 James M. Murray 1947 Gone
	413 Arch Street 1924 Vacant 1947 Gone
	413-423 Arch Street 1952
	413-421 Arch Street John Lecroy & Sons Extract Manufacturers 1952
	414 Arch Street 1924 Mrs. E.D. Urban 1947 Gone
	416 Arch Street 1924 Mrs. P. Walker 1947 Gone
	417 Arch Street 1894 Rueben S. & Eleanor Cross Camden Courier October 23, 1894
	417 Arch Street 1924 Gone
	418 Arch Street 1924 R.J. Greenwood 1947 Gone
	419 Arch Street 1924 Vacant 1947 Gone
	420 Arch Street 1924 Julian McLaughlin 1947 Robert J. Mentz 1947 Robert J. Mentz Jr. residence
	421 Arch Street 1924 Fred G. Wacker 1947 Gone
	422 Arch Street 1924 Jacob Reed 1947 William H. Wright residence
	423 Arch Street 1924 Miller Building 1924 Camden Magneto & Battery Service Station 1924 Myron W. Miller Electric Company 1924 M.R. Sidwell woodworker 1924 South Jersey Publishing Company 1924 West Jersey Chemical Company
	423 Arch Street E.D. Brewer & Son Office Equipment Late 1940s Photo taken June 15, 1952 Occupants of building on that date presently not known- PMC 8/14/2005
	424 Arch Street 1924-1947 Thomas A. Mullin residence
	430 Arch Street 1924 Mrs. Hannah Keating 1947 United Diner
	432 Arch Street 1924 Thomas I. Rich 1947 Gone
	434 Arch Street 1880 Howard H. Currie 1880 Howard L. Currie 1924 F.M. Woodward 1947 Gone
	438 Arch Street 1889-1922 Oetzel's Saloon 1924 Gone

501-529 Block of Arch Street
	501 Arch Street 1924 Joseph D'Andrea barber shop 1924 Leonard C. Matthews police 1924 A.D. Thompson
	503 Arch Street 1924 Carl Cutler machinst
	505 Arch Street 1924 Herman Z. Cutler Company sheet metal works Herman Z. Cutler
	513 Arch Street 1924 vacant
	515 Arch Street 1924 John Soffe real estate 1924 Soffe Hydraulic Stone Company
	517 Arch Street 1924 Frank M. Toppin soft drinks
	519 Arch Street 1924 Board of Charities 1924 Camden County Tuberculosis Assn. 1924 Visiting Nurse Society 1924 Tuberculosis Clinic
	521 Arch Street 1924 Gospel Hall
	523-525 Arch Street 1919-1924 National Cash Register Compnay
	529 Arch Street 1924 Camden Safety Storage Company
	531 Arch Street 1924 Stahl's Dining Room 1924 Melanie Stahl
	533 Arch Street 1924 F.J. Saylor Co. vaccum cleaners 1924 Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Company
	535 Arch Street 1924 Mrs. Kate Eggman
	537 Arch Street 1924 Camden Real Estate Search Co. 1924 William A. Carty Insurance 1924 Winnie Cline 1924 William Cline lawyer 1924 Maurice L. Praissman lawyer 1924 Joshua Griffiths real estate 1924 Home Builders Company 1924 Roosevelt Finance Company
	539 Arch Street 1924 Harry C. Lounsberry stoves

A lunch wagon stood for many years at the Arch Street "triangle". Read about it and other Camden memories from long-time Camden Courier-Post reporter and columnist Dan McConnell.
	Camden Courier-Post June 7, 1939

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"Federal and Arch Streets, from Broadway & Federal Street, Camden NJ"

Arch Street from 4th Street - October 3, 2003

Looking Southwest on Arch from 4th Streets	Looking Northwest on Arch from 4th Streets

At the Northwest Corner of 5th & Arch Streets

Headquarters, Camden Fire Department 5th and Arch Streets - circa 1908	Headquarters, Camden Fire Department 5th and Arch Streets - 1918