Camden Streets - Cooper Street

COOPER STREET is one of the oldest streets in Camden, and is named after the Cooper family. William Cooper was one of the first settlers in this part of New Jersey. Camden was known as Cooper's Ferries for many years prior to the city being incorporated in 1828.

The curb line of Cooper Street, from Front Street to the tracks of the Camden & Atlantic Railroad Company, were moved twelve feet towards the center, and the street paved with Belgian blocks in 1881. In 1927 the curb lines were moved back twelve feet from 4th Street to 9th Street. This improvement was completed in September of 1927.

Cooper Street runs from the waterfront east to 9th Street, with a short block of homes and business still standing above 11th Street. Prior to the construction of Interstate Route I-676, Cooper Street ran all the way to 12th Street. Cooper Street was for many years one of the most prestigious addresses in Camden, and many homes of historic significance, due to both the residents and the architects of said homes, were and still are on Cooper Street.

The "beginning of the end" for Cooper Street came in the early 1920s, when three mansions were torn down to make room for the Walt Whitman Hotel. On June 30, 1940 all the homes on the south side of the 900 block were destroyed when the R.M. Hollingshead chemical factory, which occupied most of the block, fronting on 9th and on Market Streets, exploded and burned to the ground.

Little known outside of East Camden is the "other" Cooper Street, which runs between North 19th and East State Street. This short street only has one single family home and a block of 13 row homes.

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

Phil Cohen

100 Block of Cooper Street
	Cooper Street Looking Northeast from Front and Cooper 1907 Click on Image to Enlarge The Cooper Mansion was the home of Camden Free Public Library for a time. It was razed to make room for the Johnson Library and Johnson Park
	Cooper Street Johnson Park circa 1920 Click on Image to Enlarge
	Cooper Street Johnson Park 1926 Peter Pan Pagent Click on Image to Enlarge The Johnson Library and park were donated to the City of Camden by Eldridge Johnson, founder and CEO of the Victor Talking Machine Company. Built between 1914 and 1930, and first opened in 1918.
	Cooper Street Looking Northeast from Front and Cooper April 2005 Photo by Craig Campbell Click on Image to Enlarge
	122 Cooper Street Dr. Samuel Harris
	120-124 & 126 Cooper Street
	128 & 130 Cooper Street
	134 Cooper Street
	122 Cooper Street The Dorcas Society 1872 Click on Images to Enlarge
	120-124, 126, 128, 130 & 134 Cooper Street Click on Images to Enlarge
	126 Cooper Street 1880 William Abels
	100-134 Cooper Street Victor Talking Machine Company Factory about 1920 Click on Images to Enlarge
	Northwest Corner of Front & Cooper Street Victor Talking Machine Company Offices about 1920

200 Block of Cooper Street
	Cooper Street Looking East from N 2nd Street 1st house on right: 210 Cooper 1st House on left: 215 Cooper Click on Images to Enlarge
	200-230 Cooper Street February 7, 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge
	200 Cooper Street The Edward Sharp House Click on Images to Enlarge
	200 Cooper Street The Edward Sharp House Click on Images to Enlarge
	200 Cooper Street The Edward Sharp House Click on Images to Enlarge
	200 Cooper Street The Edward Sharp House Click on Images to Enlarge
	200 Cooper Street The Edward Sharp House Click on Images to Enlarge
AUTOIST HELD IN CRASH AS LICENSELESS DRIVER Charged with driving without a license, Arthur Benjamin, 28, of 430 Liberty Street, was held in $10 security for a police court hearing following a collision at Twenty-third and High Streets shortly after noon yesterday, One man was cut on the head and legs. Policeman James Banks made the arrest after Benjamin's car struck and overturned the machine of C.R. Finney, 62, of 201 Cooper Street. Finney was treated by Dr. A. Lincoln Sherk. Benjamin was ordered to appear before Judge Garfield Pancoast June 29.	201 Cooper Street 1933 C.R. Finney Camden Courier-Post June 23, 1933
	201 Cooper Street 1933 Turin Grotto mid-late 1930's John Lynch Saloon 1947 Palace Restaurant
	204 & 206 Cooper Street February 7, 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge RIGHT: 204 Cooper Street was the home of the College of South Jersey Law School in 1947, the predecessor to Rutgers Law School LEFT: Henry S. Ford lived at 206 Cooper Street in the 1930s and 1940s
	205 Cooper Street Richard Pancoast 1880s-1900s
	207 Cooper Street
	209 Cooper Street Womans Club of Camden 1896-1901
	210 Cooper Street February 7, 2004 Charlotte C. French 1920s-1930s Click on Image to Enlarge
	210 Cooper Street Charlotte C. French 1920s-1930s Click on Image to Enlarge
	212 Cooper Street
	214 Cooper Street George W. Jessup 1920s-1932
	215 Cooper Street Dr. Dowling Benjamin
	217 Cooper Street
	220 Cooper Street Samuel Smith Ice 1890s
	218-222 Cooper Street The Chalcar Apartments 1925 Byron Edwards & Alfred Green Architects Edward A. "Dick" Malan 1940s-1950 Click on Image to Enlarge
	218-222 Cooper Street The Chalcar Apartments Edward A. "Dick" Malan 1940s-1950 Click on Image to Enlarge
	218-222 Cooper Street The Chalcar Apartments February 7, 2004 Byron Edwards & Alfred Green Click on Image to Enlarge


	224 & 218-222 Cooper Street February 7, 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge
	223 Cooper Street
	224 Cooper Street February 7, 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge
	228 & 224 Cooper Street February 7, 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge
	227 Cooper Street
	228 Cooper Street Photo taken February 7, 2004 1877-1888 Nathan F. Cowan & Family Nathan & Sallie Ann Cowan William Cowan Edgar Cowan Herbert Cowan Click on Image to Enlarge
	229 Cooper Street
	230 Cooper Street
	232 Cooper Street 1910s-1920s Frank J. Hineline
	232 Cooper Street 1910s-1920s Ludwig Kind 1910s-1920s Charles H. Greer 1910s-1920s William MacFarland 1910s Philip Wilson

301 Block of Cooper Street
	302-300 Cooper Street February 7, 2004 House on left: 302 Cooper House on right: 300 Cooper Click on Images to Enlarge
	300 Cooper Street Dr. William A. Davis 1882-1900s
	302-300 Cooper Street February 7, 2004 House on left: 302 Cooper House on right: 300 Cooper Click on Images to Enlarge
	302-312 Cooper Street August 2004 Photo Courtesy of Craig Campbell
	303 Cooper Street February 7, 2004 Dr. Max Ruttenberg 1933-1947 Click on Images to Enlarge
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED Dr. and Mrs. Max Ruttenberg, of 303 Cooper Street, have announced the engagement of Mrs. Ruttenberg's sister, Miss Harriet Blieden, daughter of the late Rabbi and Mrs. Ben jamin Blieden, of Philadelphia, to Max Kahener, of Philadelphia. Miss Blieden is a graduate of South Philadelphia High School for Girls and following attended Temple University. She is vice president of the South Philadelphia Hadassah. Mr. Kahener is a graduate of the Philadelphia Normal School, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the law school of Dickinson College.	303 Cooper Street Dr. Max Ruttenberg 1933-1947 Camden Courier-Post June 15, 1933
	305 Cooper Street Dr. H. Genet Taylor & Family 1885-1959 Agnes Draper 1940s-1950 February 7, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge
	305 Cooper Street The Home of Dr. H. Genet Taylor & Family February 7, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge
	306 Cooper Street Emma Hyland 1930s-1945

Above: 306 Cooper Street - The Pierre Apartments
	311 Cooper Street The Bloom Apartments Completed and opened for business February 1928 Property developed and building erected by Segwyn Realty, Inc.- Dr. Meyer Segal, Meyer Wessel, Hyman Bloom This building was known as Cooper Plaza Apartments in 1947.
	311 Cooper Street The Bloom Apartments Camden Courier-Post Newspaper Advertisement February 3, 1928
	300-312 Cooper Street February 7, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge
	312 Cooper Street Camden Republican Club 1914-1922 Click on Images to Enlarge
	312 Cooper Street Headquarters of the Camden County Red Cross February 7, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge
Below: Aerial Photo from late 1930 showing 201 to 311 Cooper Street

	315 Cooper Street Lodge 111 Loyal Order of Moose 1947
	318 Cooper Street The home of E.G.C. Bleakly prominent Camden attorney from 1910s through the 1950s Photograph published in 1915 Click on Images to Enlarge
	319 Cooper Street Furnished Rooms Camden Courier-Post June 7, 1933
	320 Cooper Street
	321 Cooper Street
	322 Cooper Street
	323 Cooper Street Francis D. Weaver 1920s-1938
	323, 325 & 329 Cooper Street
	324 Cooper Street
	325 Cooper Street The Home and Office of Dr. Lettie Allen Ward
	326 Cooper Street February 7, 2004 Dr. Daniel Strock 1900s-1927 Garrett Cowls Joseph Hamilton Kay Hamilton April 2004- This building will be demolished to accommodate Rowan University Click on Images to Enlarge
	327 Cooper Street Francis Ford Patterson Jr. 1900s-1910s
	328 Cooper Street
	327 & 329 Cooper Street
	323 to 329 Cooper Street
	328 Cooper Street
	330 Cooper Street Dr. William H. Ireland Loretta Ireland 1880s-1904

401 Block of Cooper Street
	400 Cooper Street Judge Mitchell H. Cohen Federal Building & Courthouse February 7, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge
	403 to 429 Cooper Street February 7, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge
	403 & 405 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Click on Images to Enlarge
	403 Cooper Street Wilbur F. Rose 1880s Dr. Joseph E. Roberts Jr. Dr. Thomas M. Kain Dr. Thomas M. Kain Jr. 1947
	405 Cooper Street Dr. Sophia Presley
	405 Cooper Street Dr. Paul Mecray Dr. Paul Mecray Jr. Dr. Albert H. Schaffer Dr. Walter A. Crist Dr. Alex Sochacki Dr. Saul S. Artis, dentist 1947
	405 & 407 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Click on Images to Enlarge
	406 Cooper Street Dr. A. Haines Lippincott Jr. & his wife Mrs. Miriam Lippincott Photograph taken in 1978
	407 Cooper Street
	408 Cooper Street 1929-1933 Sarah Dollar 1929-1933 Dermot Dollar
	408 Cooper Street Joseph H. Murray Funeral Home Charles T. Murray 1929-1970s The funeral home used both 410 (at left) and 408 Cooper Street for business purposes. The photo was taken in 1978. In the 1990s, these buildings were razed to make way for the Judge Mitchell Cohen Federal Courthouse. Click on Images to Enlarge
	407 to 429 Cooper Street February 7, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge
	411 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Mrs. Bertha Kephart Funeral Home 1935-1936 Click on Images to Enlarge
	413 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Click on Images to Enlarge
	414 Cooper Street Camden Motorcycle Police mid-1920s
	414 Cooper Street Camden Medical Arts Building 1947
	413 & 415 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Click on Images to Enlarge
	415 Cooper Street Family Dental Association 1991 Fire Watch Magazine Advertisement
	415 Cooper Street Family Dental Association Arthur Truscott 1887-1889 1991 Fire Watch Magazine Advertisement
	415, 417 & 419 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Click on Images to Enlarge
	417 Cooper Street Family Dental Association Camden Courier-Post May 19, 1964
	417 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Dr. Henry H. Davis 1920s Thomas Murphy 1940s-1950s Click on Images to Enlarge
	419 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Click on Images to Enlarge
	420 Cooper Street Wilfred W. Fry Playground 1947
	419 & 421 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Click on Images to Enlarge
	421 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Click on Images to Enlarge
	423 Cooper Street
	425 & 427 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Click on Images to Enlarge
	425, 427 & 429 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Click on Images to Enlarge
	425, 427 & 429 Cooper Street October 31, 2005 Click on Images to Enlarge
	Architect's Drawing House for Mr. James S. White 427 Cooper Street, Camden Made for King Architects 226 Walnut Street Philadelphia PA
	427 & 429 Cooper Street April 2003 Click on Images to Enlarge
	427 Cooper Street April 2003 Click on Images to Enlarge
	429 Cooper Street Joseph J. Read Dr. Edward A.Y Schellenger Sr. Wolcott Patterson Dr. Edward A.Y Schellenger Jr. October 31, 2005 Click on Images to Enlarge
	429 Cooper Street Camden Courier-Post Advertisement January 8, 1938
	430 Cooper Street Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church also known as Centenary-Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church as seen from Northwest Corner of North 4th & Cooper Street February 7, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge
	Cooper Street Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church as seen from Northeast Corner of North 5th & Cooper Street
	Cooper Street Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church as seen from Northeast Corner of North 5th & Lawrence Street

500 Block of Cooper Street
	501 & 505 Cooper Street April 17, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge
	501 Cooper Street James M. O'Neil 1940s-1950s
	505 Cooper Street Charles Cox 1870s-1890s
	509 Cooper Street 1927 Known as the Remington & Vosbury Building when erected, the building at 509 Cooper Street was designed by prominent local architect Joseph N. Hettel Sr.
	505, 509 & 511 Cooper Street April 17, 2004. Click on Images to Enlarge
	511 Cooper Street April 17, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge Home prior to 1887 of Dr. Joseph & Annie Beatty after 1887 of Dr. Henry F. Hunt Dr. William A. Davis 1900s-1910s & son Dr. Albert Davis
	513 Cooper Street
	514 Cooper Street William T. Read Sr. 1883-1890 Lucretia Read 1883-1934 William T. Read Jr. House designed by Arthur Truscott City Hall in background April 17, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge
	515 Cooper Street Dr. Paul Markley 1900s-1910s Theosophical Society 1927-1928 T. Yorke Smith 1910s-1920s
	516 Cooper Street
	517 Cooper Street 1900s-1910s Dr. Byron Fortiner 1970-1980s Dr. Robert Katz optometrist
	518 Cooper Street
	519 Cooper Street 1928 Mary Jane Lovett Camden High School January 1928 Purple & Gold Yearbook
	522 Cooper Street Dr. G. Russell Atkinson 1920s-1936
	520-522 Cooper Street April 17, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge
	520-522 & 524 Cooper Street April 17, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge
	521 Cooper Street Tommy Skymer 1947
	523 Cooper Street
j	524 Cooper Street
	525 Cooper Street Charles S. Boyer Residence 1900s-1920s
	525 Cooper Street Madeline Palma Residence 1939
	525 Cooper Street Howard R. Yocum Lawyer 1950s
	525 Cooper Street Frank F. Neutze Sr. 1940s - late 1970s
	526 Cooper Street
	524 & 530 Cooper Street April 17, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge
	527 Cooper Street Judge Frank T. Lloyd 1900s-1910s Dr. William Lashman 1947
	528 Cooper Street Frank M. Travaline Jr.
	530 & 532 Cooper Street 1892
	532 Cooper Street April 17, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge
	532 Cooper Street George W. Jessup 1910s-1920s Burleigh Draper 1910s-1920s T. Yorke Smith 1910s-1920s
	534 Cooper Street 1928 Edwin Field Crane Camden High School January 1928 Purple & Gold Yearbook
	534 to 500 Cooper Street 500 Block in background February 7, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge
	535 Cooper Street
	538, 540, & 542 Cooper Street John Cheney House designed in 1892 by Arthur Truscott
	538 Cooper Street Melbourne F. Middleton Jr. residence 1910s-1930s
	538 Cooper Street Pohle's Restaurant June 22, 1938 Camden Courier-Post Newspaper Ad Click on Images to Enlarge
	538 Cooper Street Pohle's Restaurant June 22, 1938 Camden Courier-Post Newspaper Ad Click on Images to Enlarge
	539 Cooper Street
	540 Cooper Street Markeim-Chalmers, Inc. 1940s-1960s Camden Courier-Post May 19, 1964
	540 Cooper Street William T. Cahill Edward V. Martino John H. Reiners Jr.
	541 Cooper Street
	542 Cooper Street
	543 Cooper Street
	544 Cooper Street
	Looking West from North 6th Street 1892 Click on Images to Enlarge

600 Block of Cooper Street - Before 1925
	610 Cooper Street 1910s Charles Stockham
	617 Cooper Street Click on Images to Enlarge
	618 Cooper Street 1900s-1920s Belford G. Royal
	620 Cooper Street
	622 Cooper Street April 17, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge
	625 Cooper Street 1946-1947 Walt Whitman Flower Shop Evelyn Odlen
	627 Cooper Street Click on Images to Enlarge
	627 & 633 Cooper Street 627 Cooper, designed by Arthur Truscott, for his brother, J. Lynn Truscott. Click on Images to Enlarge
	627 & 633 Cooper Street Howard M. Cooper lived at 633 Cooper Street in the 1890s H.B. Hanford & Alice Hanford 1890s-1920s Click on Images to Enlarge
	638 Cooper Street George K. Johnson Umbrella Manufacturer 1870s-1887 Isaac Z. Collings Carriage Builder 1887-1890s
	639 Cooper Street Benjamin C. Reeve 1870s-1880s Click on Images to Enlarge

	639 Cooper Street Camden Lodge 293 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks under construction 1920s-1930s The LEAP Academy 2002-2006 Click on Images to Enlarge
	639 Cooper Street Camden Lodge 293 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks 1920s-1930s construction photo published 1925 Building designed by Joshua C. Jefferis, architect The LEAP Academy 2002-2006 Click on Images to Enlarge
	639 Cooper Street Camden Lodge 293 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks 1920s-1930s photo published 1928 Building designed by Joshua C. Jefferis, architect
	639 Cooper Street Camden Lodge 293 Benevolent Protective Order of Elks 1920s-1930s photo published 1928 Building designed by Joshua C. Jefferis, architect

700 Block of Cooper Street
	700 Cooper Street Benjamin Starr 1870s-1880s Richard Henry Reeve 1887-1917 Augustus H. Reeve 1887-1890s
	701 Cooper Street Gerard R. Vogels 1870s-1888
	702 Cooper Street
	703 Cooper Street Benjamin C. Reeve 1870s-1880s
	708, 702 & 700 Cooper Street and the intersection of North 7th Street & Cooper Street This photograph was taken before 1926, shown by the fact that the Wilson Building at Broadway and Cooper Street had not been erected and is not to be seen. 708 Cooper Street is at the extreme left of this photograph
	708 Cooper Street Joseph H. Forsyth
	711 Cooper Street Samuel H. Grey
	712 Cooper Street Samuel H. Grey lawyer, president West Jersey Title and Guaranty Co 1887-1990s Jeremiah Steelman
	712 Cooper Street Furnished Rooms Camden Courier-Post June 7, 1933
	714 Cooper Street
	715 Cooper Street John Cooper vice-president, Camden National Bank 1870s-1880s Howard M. Cooper lawyer 1870s-1889 William Cooper 1910s-1920s
	715 Cooper Street Schroeder Funeral Home Bernhard F. Schroeder Bernhard C. Schroeder 1920s-1960s
	715 Cooper Street Schroeder Funeral Home Bernhard F. Schroeder Bernhard C. Schroeder 1920s-1960s Camden Courier-Post Ad July 17, 1967
	715, 717, 719 & 721 Cooper Street July 1965
	717 Cooper Street Frank B. Middleton 1870s-1900s
No Houses in 700 Block after 717 before 1880 census
	719 Cooper Street Alexander Boardman Real Estate 1887-1890 Amos Cooper 1887-1889
	721 Cooper Street George Genge Browning Browning Brothers Dye Works 1887-1890 George Pfeiffer Jr. 1890s-1900s Dr. James E. Rodger 1933
	721 Cooper Street July 7, 1965
	726 Cooper Street Horace M. Sharp Charles W. Sharp 1887-1889
	728 Cooper Street John F. Harned 1889-1920s
	728 Cooper Street John F. Harned 1970s Click on Image to Enlarge
	728 Cooper Street John F. Harned 1970s Click on Image to Enlarge

800 Block of Cooper Street
	804 Cooper Street This home, at left, was built by real estate developer and builder Edward N. Cohn. Photo from 1893. David Baird Sr. had acquired the house by 1900, and lived there until his death. David Baird Jr. lived there until October of 1936.
	805 Cooper Street Dr. John W. Donges 1910s-1920s
MAN JAILED 3 MONTHS IN THEFT OF WATCH Charged, with the larceny of a watch belonging to Albert L. Hawkins, of Collingswood; John H. Evans, 64, of 2117 Sherman Avenue, was sentenced to three months in jail Saturday by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast. Hawkins, who is a painter, said he was at work Thursday on the second floor of a vacant house at 805 Cooper Street, when he saw a man come in and take the watch from his trousers, which he had left downstairs. Hawkins recognized Evans' picture in the rogues gallery and police arrested the man. Detective Clifford Carr testified Evans has been arrested a number of times on larceny charges.	805 Cooper Street Camden Courier-Post June 25, 1933
Addresses below reported in the 1947 City Directory
	801 Cooper Street Dr. Joel B. Cunningham
	805 Cooper Street Dr. David L. Andrus
	807 Cooper Street Camden Lodge 293 Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks 1947
	811 Cooper Street Arthur H Holl & Earl B. Holl Funeral Home
	814 Cooper Street Esso Servicemaster Gas Station
	817 Cooper Street Camden Credit Association Electrolux Vacuum Cleaners
	819 Cooper Street Harry A. Louderbach Real Estate
	821 Cooper Street Mrs. Edna Knehr Harry J. Mitchell 1947 Charles J. Ball 1947-1950
Addresses below built after 1891, reported in the 1930 Census
	805 Cooper Street
	807 Cooper Street
	811 Cooper Street
	813 Cooper Street
	815 Cooper Street
	817 Cooper Street
	819 Cooper Street
	821 Cooper Street
	823 Cooper Street
	825 Cooper Street
	827 Cooper Street
	829 Cooper Street
	831 Cooper Street
	833 Cooper Street
	835 Cooper Street
Addresses below reported in the 1947 City Directory
	840 Cooper Street R.M. Hollingshead Corporation

900 Block of Cooper Street
Built by 1887

900
Cooper Street

All the even-numbered homes in the 900 block of Cooper Street were destroyed on July 30, 1940 when the R.M. Hollingshead factory was destroyed by an explosion and fire on July 30, 1940.

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901
Cooper Street

Dr. William Moslander
1900s-1910s
Mrs. Anna Moslander
1910s-late 1940s

902
Cooper Street

Murray L. Serotikin
1933

909
Cooper Street

George W. Whyte
1910s-1930s

914
Cooper Street

1940 John "Pete" Brecker
Mr. & Mrs. Brecker
Kathryn Simon

Picture taken in the aftermath of the Hollingshead fire. Camden Police Detectives Vernon Jones (Left) and George Weber (center) return jewelry and cash recovered from home to Miss Simon, sister of Mrs. Brecker.

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920
Cooper Street

Camden Courier-Post
December 12, 1957

Clifford Del Rossi

Howard L. James

Fogarty Avenue

921
Cooper Street

Joseph E. Nowrey Sr.
1910s-1930s

Mrs. Chester D. VanDuyn, of 924 Cooper Street, is spending some time with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lane, of this city, at their cottage in Pitman. Mrs. VanDuyn's daughter, Miss Catharine S. VanDuyn, is spending this weekend in Washington, D. C .

924 Cooper Street

1930 Mrs. Chester D. Van Duyn

Camden Courier-Post
June 12, 1933

WILLIAM DICKINSON

William Dickinson, 68, of 931 Cooper Street died today in Cooper Hospital. A lifelong resident of Camden, he had operated a garage and automobile repair business for the past 50 years.

Surviving are his wife, Lena H.; two daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Heller, of Clementon; Miss Mary Dickinson, of Camden; a sister, Miss Marie Dickinson, of Philadelphia, and two grandchildren.

Services will be held at 11 a. m. Saturday in the Murray Funeral Home, 408 Cooper Street. Burial will be in Harleigh Cemetery. There will be no viewing.

931 Cooper Street

1924-1958 William Dickinson

William & Mgdalene Dickinson
Elizabeth Dickinson
Mary Dickinson
Marie Dickinson

Camden Courier-Post
February 14, 1958

Students Return To Spend Summer Vacation Home

Leon F. Rittenhouse of 1557 Bradley Avenue, is leaving today for California, where he will continue his study of medicine. Mr. Rittenhouse was a graduate from Washington Missionary College, in the national capital on Monday.

Two of the Wilfred W. Frys' children were graduated at schools in New York and Massachusetts, this past weekend and today. Tonight Miss Eleanor Fry will be graduated from the Emma Willard School at Troy, New York Last week Wilfred W. Fry, II, was graduated from Mt. Hermon School, Mt. Hermon, Massachusetts.

Henry J. Bowes Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Bowes of Merchantville, spent last week in Annapolis, Maryland, where he took entrance examinations for the United States Naval Academy. He was graduated last week from Valley Forge Military Academy, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

Miss Helen Pratt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Byron Pratt of 213 North Fourth Street, has returned from Bucknell University for the Summer.

Miss Eleanor Holman of 108 North Fourth Street and Miss Betty Dickinson of 931 Cooper Street, have returned to their respective homes for the Summer. They are attending Syracuse University.

Miss Frances Snyder of 331 North Forty-first street, was graduated at Syracuse this month.

931 Cooper Street

1933 Elizabeth "Betty" Dickinson

Camden Courier-Post
June 12, 1933

Miss Dickinson, Leighton Heller In Engagement

Mr. and Mrs. William Dickinson, of 931 Cooper Street, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss M. Elizabeth Dickinson, to Mr. Leighton J. Heller, son of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Heller, of 50 Fulton Avenue, Clementon.

Miss Dickinson was graduated from Syracuse University and is a member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority. She was formerly a member of the faculty at Camden High School. Mr. Heller is a graduate of Dickinson College and Law School and is a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. He recently received an honorable discharge from the U. S. Army after serving for two and one-half years in India.

931 Cooper Street

1945 Betty Dickinson

Camden Courier-Post
August 15, 1945

932 Cooper Street

1933 Alfred Shaefer

HARRY A. WILLE

Funeral services will be held at 11 a. m. Monday for Harry A. Wille, 55, of 933 Cooper Street, who died yesterday after a short illness. Burial will be in Harleigh Cemetery. Mr. Wille, who was born here, was employed in the upholstery department of the J. B. Van Sciver Co.. He is survived by his widow, Ida, and a son, Henry C. Wille, 3rd, of Camden..

933 Cooper Street

1920s-1933 Harry Wille
1933-1947 Mrs. Ida Wille
1920s-1960s Henry C. Willie 3rd
attorney

Camden Courier-Post
February 5, 1933

934 Cooper Street

J. Willard Morgan
1870s-1880s
J. Eugene Troth
Lawyer
1880s-1890s

MICHAEL BENSON

The funeral of Michael Benson, 52, of' 939 Cooper Street, who died Tuesday, will be held at 8 a. m. Saturday, at 2850 Federal street. Mass will be held at 9 a. m., at the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery. Mr. Benson is survived by a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Sidell, with whom, he lived, and a brother. He was a son of the late Joseph and Elizabeth Benson..

939 Cooper Street

1933 Michael Benson
1933 Mrs. Elizabeth Sidell

Camden Courier-Post
February 3, 1933

943 Cooper Street

Bethany Methodist Episcopal
Church
1880s-late 1940s

1000 Block of Cooper Street
Built by 1887

1014
Cooper Street

Furnished Rooms

Camden Courier-Post
June 7, 1933

1016
Cooper Street

Technical Sergeant
Peter D. Wright
1930s-1940s

Mrs. Thomas P. McConaghy, of Tenth and Cooper Streets, this city, is registered at Chalfonte-Haddon Hall, Atlantic City.

1017
Cooper Street

Dr. Thomas P. McConaghy
1920s-1930s

Camden Courier-Post
June 10, 1933

1027
Cooper Street

1028
Cooper Street

1903-1904 Louis DeLisle & Family

New York Times
January 2, 1904

1029
Cooper Street

1903-1904 Edward Rice

1033
Cooper Street

George M. Beringer Jr.
George M. Beringer III
1920s-1930s

1035
Cooper Street

1933 Norfleet Saunders

Camden Courier-Post
June 9, 1933

1045
Cooper Street

Charles J. Ball
1920s-1930s

1046
Cooper Street

Edmund Tydeman Family
Vincent A. Tydeman
1887-1888

1046
Cooper Street

Furnished Rooms

Camden Courier-Post
June 7, 1933

1046
Cooper Street

1947
Mrs. Elizabeth Gosling Mahoney

My Father, Harry Molotsky, had a grocery store called Harry's Red Front Market at 1048 Cooper Street. I am not sure what year he purchased the property, but it was in the 1940s. I was born in 1945 and my brother, Allan, in 1948. We lived behind the store until 1951 when we moved to East Camden at 420 South 30th Street.

My father kept the business until the early 1960's when he had cataract surgery and the state took the property. Dad then worked for Two Guys in the deli department for many years before retiring. It was nice that he had normal working hours. My parents started taking vacations which they had not been able to do before.

My father had a young man delivering groceries by bicycle. He let people buy groceries on credit. We never had to go grocery shopping as he always took home necessities and treats from the store. Since we kept kosher, we had to get our meat from the kosher butcher even though my father sold meat. He always had a butcher whose name was Warren Peaches. His son taught me how to drive.

Father's parents had a grocery store at 6th and Elm Street. My aunt and uncle, Sam and Esther, had a grocery at 9th and Pearl if I remember correctly. A cousin of my dad, Abe Molotsky had a dry goods store, but I can't remember the location (442-444 North 8th Street- PMC).

Lois Cohen, October 2007

1048
Cooper Street

Harry's Red Front Market
Harry Molotsky
meats
1940s-1960s

1100 Block of Cooper Street Built by 1887
	1117 Cooper Street Private Anthony J. Flemming 1920s-1930s
	1124 Cooper Street 1929 Felisher & Rosa Beasley 1929 John Beasley 1929 Walter Beasley
	1126 Cooper Street 1947-1957 Robert Booker Camden Courier-Post December 19, 1957
	1127 Cooper Street John Sylvester Kellum 1880s
	1127 Cooper Street George R. Serfling Sr. 1900s-1920s
	1140 Cooper Street George R. Serfling Sr. 1890s-1900s Clinton Gilchrist Confectioner 1947
	1143 Cooper Street Wilson's Daily Express New Jersey Bell Telephone Directory 1936
	1143 Cooper Street 1947 No Listing
	1144 Cooper Street Clinton Gilchrist residence 1947
	1145 Cooper Street Ray R. Adams truckdriver 1920s - late 1940s
	1152 Cooper Street 1899 Howard Snyder Philadelphia Inquirer November 12,1889 Click on Image to Enlarge
'NUMBERS' SUSPECT FREED IN $100 BAIL Suspected by the police of being a "numbers' writer, Clinton Gilchrist, 25, colored, of 1153 Cooper Street, was held in $100 bail by Acting Police Judge James Smith yesterday for a further hearing next Tuesday. Gilchrist who is charged with operating a "numbers" lottery was arrested Thursday in an automobile at Eleventh and Cooper streets by Detective Lieutenant Louis Shaw and Detective Clarence Arthur. In Gilchrist's possession, the detectives say they found some "numbers" slips and "loose coins."	1153 Cooper Street Clinton Gilchrist Camden Courier-Post February 4, 1933
	1161 Cooper Street William H. Johnson Robert Burk Johnson 1910s-1930s
	1163 Cooper Street William Hibbert 1870s-1890s
	1169 Cooper Street Edward Richards Tires 1947
	1171 Cooper Street Towmotor Corporation forklifts 1947

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The Victor Plant Cooper Street, Camden N.J.	Cooper Park, 2nd & Cooper Streets circa 1907

"The Camden factories of the Victor Talking Machine Company"	The Victor Plant, Johnson Park in the foreground Now known as Walt Whitman Poetry Center

Cooper Park Library - circa 1910	Cooper Park Library - circa 1912

Cooper Park Library - circa 1916 *The Cooper Park Library was replaced by a large building (right). donated by Eldridge Johnson of the Victor Talking Machine Co.*	The Cooper Free Public Library Known today as The Walt Whitman Poetry Center

Unit Block of Cooper Street
	10 Cooper Street The Esterbrook Pen Company The Esterbrook Pens Co. plant stood at Cooper Street and Delaware Avenue in Camden for several decades. Founded in 1858 in Camden by Richard Esterbrook, the plant was moved to Cherry Hill in 1964. In 1967, it became the Venus- Esterbrook company and by 1969, it closed its Cherry Hill plant. Photo circa 1920.
	10 Cooper Street The Esterbrook Pen Company When Esterbrook Pen left Camden, the old plant was acquired by RCA. Known as RCA Building 16, it was demolished in January of 1971.
	43 Cooper Street Rev. William H. Burrell 1880s-1900s

600 Block of Cooper Street
	601 Cooper Street Meisel Tire Company Camden Courier-Post August 2, 1933 Click on Images to Enlarge
	605 Cooper Street The William Scull House as early as 1887 to at least 1947 Click on Images to Enlarge
	608 Cooper Street December 2002 Click on Images to Enlarge
	608 Cooper Street December 2002 Click on Images to Enlarge
	611 Cooper Street George Genge Browning Dye Factory - 1870s-1880s John T. Bottomley President, Camden Woolen Mills 1889s-1890s The roof of this building is visible behind the trees, between 605 Cooper and the Hotel Walt Whitman
	613 Cooper Street
	618 Cooper Street Malcolm MacDonald Lawyer 1870s-1890s

600 Block of Cooper Street Southeast of Broadway & Cooper Street
	The Wilson Building Broadway & Cooper Street April 17, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge
	The Wilson Building Broadway & Cooper Street 2003 Click on Images to Enlarge
	Weitzman Liquors in The Wilson Building, & 622 Cooper Street 2003 Click on Images to Enlarge

The Helene Apartments at 125 North 3rd Street & 232 Cooper Street Southwest Corner of North 3rd & Cooper Streets

300 Block of Cooper Street The 2004 Rowan University Development Plan

Approved by the Camden Redevelopment agency in 2004, after Rowan University, never the best of neighbors in Glassboro, announced plans to seize the 300 block of Cooper and Market between 3rd and 4th Streets. Actions by the Redevelopment Agency protected the business, residences, and historic buildings, and in the end, only one standing property, 326 Cooper Street, presently unoccupied, will be razed, and the Camden County Red Cross, presently occupying 312 Cooper Street, will relocate. This is a real victory for all Camden citizens who pay taxes, as only one ratable was lost, while the assessed property values of those save will certainly rise- Phil Cohen, April 2004.

538, 540, and 542 Cooper Street The Cheney Houses, designed by architect Arthur Truscott

Northwest Corner of Broadway & Cooper Street The Terminal Block - 1947-2000 Built on land that had been occupied in part by 605 and 611 Cooper Street

	Camden Courier-Post December 1947 Click on Image to Enlarge

611-633 Cooper Street Northeast Corner of Broadway & Cooper Street The Hotel Walt Whitman & Annex


Left: The Hotel Walt Whitman - 1933 Right: The Hotel Walt Whitman - 1950s Elks Home, now The LEAP Academy, at far right
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700 Block of Cooper Street 701 to 721 Cooper Street - 1967 Click on Image to Enlarge

1900 Block of Cooper Street Built by 1887
	1987 Cooper Street Razed by April 1930
	1988 Cooper Street
	1989 Cooper Street Razed by April 1930
	1991 Cooper Street Razed by April 1930
	1993 Cooper Street Razed by April 1930
	1995 Cooper Street Razed by April 1930
	1997 Cooper Street Razed by April 1930
	1999 Cooper Street 1910s-1920s W.W. Ross 1920s-1920s Everett W. Staley Razed by April 1947

2000 Block of Cooper Street Built by 1887
	2000 Cooper Street
	2002 Cooper Street 1947 Edward Kavlick
	2004 Cooper Street 1924 John J. Murtaugh
	2004 Cooper Street Private Edward F. Murtaugh
	2006 Cooper Street Private Norman W. Wohlken
	2008 Cooper Street
	2010 Cooper Street
	2012 Cooper Street
	2014 Cooper Street John Lemmons 1920s Camden Courier-Post February 16, 1928
	2014 Cooper Street Sgt. Angelo Frank Derago
	2016 Cooper Street
	2018 Cooper Street
	2020 Cooper Street
	2022 Cooper Street
	2024 Cooper Street

2000 Block of Cooper Street Side view looking West from across State Street - late 1970s Photos by Floyd Agin

The grocery store at 53 East State Street Known as Handleton's 1930s-1960s 2024 Cooper Street is at right, in the background	2000 Block Cooper Street as seen from East State Street

2024 and 2022 Cooper Street	2000 Block Cooper Street as seen from North 20th Street
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