Camden Streets - Penn Street

Streets
of
Camden, NJ

Penn Street

PENN STREET did not appear in the 1863 Camden City Directory, but is listed in the 1867 edition. The street runs east from the Delaware River to North 12th Street. Much of Penn Street between North 3rd and North 5th Street was razed to make way for the expansion of Rutgers University, and several blocks of Penn Street disappeared when Route 676 was built through the heart of Camden to connect to the Ben Franklin Bridge toll plaza.

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Phil Cohen

Intersection of Delaware River & Penn Street
	Northwest Corner 1929 J. Eavenson & Sons Soap Manufacturer 1929 Wilson & Company Soap Manufacturer
Intersection of Ambler Street & Penn Street 34 to 48 Penn Street
	34 Penn Street
Intersection of Point Street & Penn Street 50 to 67 Penn Street
	50 Penn Street
MRS. AMANDA E. COLE The funeral of Mrs. Amanda E. Cole, who died Friday, will be held at 1.30 p. m. tomorrow at her late home, 51 Penn Street. Burial will be at Fernwood, Pennsylvania. She was the wife of William H. Cole.	51 Penn Street 1930s William & Amanda Cole Camden Courier-Post June 12, 1933
	67 Penn Street

Intersection of North Front Street & Penn Street
	Penn Street

100 Block of Penn Street 100 to 123 Penn Street
	101 Penn Street
	103 Penn Street

	105 Penn Street 1910s-1930s Alexander J. Milliette
	107 Penn Street
	109 Penn Street
	111 Penn Street
	115 Penn Street
	117 Penn Street
	119 Penn Street
	121 Penn Street
	121 Penn Street
	123 Penn Street

Intersection of North 2nd Street & Penn Street
	Northeast Corner
	Northwest Corner
	1933 Ritchie & Hall

200 Block of Penn Street 200 to 218 Penn Street
	200 Penn Street
	201 Penn Street 1950s Charles B. Edwards fire fighter
	203 Penn Street
	205 Penn Street
	207 Penn Street
	209 Penn Street
	211 Penn Street
	213 Penn Street
	214 Penn Street 1933 M. Rosenkranz
	215 Penn Street
	216 Penn Street 1933 Grand Tailoring Company
	217 Penn Street
	218 Penn Street
Intersection of Friends Avenue & Penn Street
	219 Penn Street
	220 Penn Street 1924 John C. Voll Jr.
	220 Penn Street 1929 CADES APARTMENTS

Intersection of North 3rd Street & Penn Street

300 Block of Penn Street 300 to 332 Penn Street
	300 Penn Street 1900s-1910s Dr. Edmund C.Pechin
	301 Penn Street 1929 CADES APARTMENTS
	304 Penn Street 1900s-1910s D. Trueman Stackhouse
	304 Penn Street 1900s-1920s Minerva C. Stackhouse
	308 Penn Street 1933 Dorothy Kurtz
	312 Penn Street 1933 Ellen D. Ryan
	313 Penn Street 1929 CADES APARTMENTS
	318 Penn Street 1929 CADES APARTMENTS
	320 Penn Street 1929 CADES APARTMENTS
YOUNG WOMAN CLEARS HER ESCORT IN ATTACK A young Camden woman insisted so strongly that her escort was not the man who struck her yesterday that detectives, after questioning him several hours, released him from custody and agreed to forget the whole thing. The escort, Frank A. Lyons, 32, of 519 Bergen Street, Gloucester, was seized after Miss Betty Schaeffer, of 321 Penn Street, was found semiconscious at Broadway and Mickle Street. She was taken to Cooper Hospital but returned to police headquarters several hours later to exonerate Lyons. She told detectives an unidentified man struck her shortly after she and Lyons left a bus at Broadway and Mickle Street. Miss Schaeffer said she and Lyons "had an argument" on the bus and that when they got off, Lyons was walking ahead of her when some one struck her from behind.	321 Penn Street 1938 Betty Schaeffer Camden Courier-Post February 4, 1938
	322 Penn Street 1929 CADES APARTMENTS 1938 Frank Luggi 1938 Evelyn Buffalo
EDWARD KELLEY Funeral services will be held at 9 a. m. tomorrow at the Church of the Immaculate Conception for Edward Kelley, 7, of 324 Penn Street who died yesterday.	324 Penn Street 1929 CADES APARTMENTS 1933 Edward Kelley Camden Courier-Post June 15, 1933
2 JAILED FOR BEGGING MONEY FROM AUTOISTS Charged with being drunk and disorderly, James Kelly, 34, of 324 Penn Street, and Charles Murphy, 59, of 423 Stevens Street, were each sentenced to 60 days in jail Saturday by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast. They were arrested at Eleventh and Linden streets yesterday on complaint of motorists who said the men would wait until a red light flashed and then walk into the street and ask for money.	324 Penn Street 1929 CADES APARTMENTS 1933 James Kelly Camden Courier-Post June 25, 1933
INVITATIONS ISSUED Mr. and Mrs. William J. Lamon, of 326 Penn Street, have issued invitations for the marriage of their daughter, Miss Hazel Ireme Lamon, to Charles W. Goodwin, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Goodwin, of Barnesboro, on Saturday, June 24, at 4 o'clock, in the Barnesboro M. E. Church. A reception at the Penn Street home will follow.	326 Penn Street 1933 William J. Lamon & Family Camden Courier-Post June 1933
	327 Penn Street 1883-1933 Isaac & Josephine Doughten
	328 Penn Street Richard K. Aitken
Miss Clara Aitken, of 328 Penn street, will entertain this evening for the following members of her Sigma Delta Nu Sorority: Miss Mildred Schorpp, Miss Myrtle Schorpp, Miss Patsy Wilkinson, of Camden; Miss Harriet Albertson, Miss Katherine Kling, Miss Marie Bergdoll and Miss Inez Harris, of Philadelphia.	328 Penn Street Clara Aitken Camden Courier-Post March 29, 1930
	331 Penn Street 1930-1933 Dr. Charles Byron Lesher 1930-1933 Dr. Mabel Grier Lesher 1930-1933 Mabel Lesher
	332 Penn Street

Intersection of North 4th Street, Main Street, & Penn Street

400 Block of Penn Street 400 to 436 Penn Street
	400 Penn Street
	401 Penn Street -1928 Edward Roberts
	406 Penn Street -1923 F. Wayland Ayer 1909-1936 Wilfred W. Fry
Rev. and Mrs. John Pemberton, Jr. of the Centenary- Tabernacle parsonage, 409 Penn Street, will sail on Saturday aboard the S.S. Bremen for a month's tour abroad.	409 Penn Street Centenary-Tabernacle M.E. Church parsonage Camden Courier-Post June 19, 1933
	413 Penn Street 1930 Mrs. Frances WIlmerton 1930 Mrs. Mary Brown 1930 Mrs. Margaret Thomson 1947 Mitchell H. Cohen
	421 Penn Street 1947 Russell J. Anderson
	436 Penn Street

Intersection of North 5th Street & Penn Street
	Penn Street

500 Block of Penn Street
500 to 548 Penn Street

500 Penn Street

North Baptist Church
Reverend A.D. Whitney Jr.

500 Penn Street

August D. Whitney III

501 Penn Street

1920s-1930s
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
grocery

506 Penn Street

1900s Charles M. Abrahamson

3 BOYS ARRESTED, ONE AS BURGLAR
Others Captured on Roof of Vacant House; Oldest 13

Three small boys were arrested last night as lawbreakers.

John Greely, 13, of 419 Cedar Street, charged with malicious mischief and breaking and entering, was arrested by Detective John Kaighn on complaint of Carl H. Brummer, of 629 Clinton Street, manager of an American Store at Fourth and Elm Streets, who said he found the boy hiding in the cellar of the store.

The other boys, Victor Linkletter, 13, and William Hoy, 12, both of 506 Penn Street, are charged with trespassing. They were arrested by Detective Sergeant Gustave Koerner and Detectives Kaighn and Frank Crawford, who from windows of the detective bureau in new city hall, said they saw the boys on the roof of a vacant three-story building at 427 Market Street.

Climbing up the rear of the building they said they cornered the boys hiding behind a chimney, apparently planning to enter the building.

All three will be arraigned in police court today.

506 Penn Street

1933 Victor Linkletter
1933 William Hoy

Camden Courier-Post
June 29, 1933

PLANE PILOT'S LICENSE 'GRANTED CAMDEN MAN

Washington, Feb. 7.-The Bureau of Air Commerce today announced the award of a private airplane pilot's license to Raymond F. Clancy, 27, of 508 Penn street, Camden, N. J It expires January 31, 1939.

508 Penn Street

1938 Raymond F. Clancy

Camden Courier-Post
February 8, 1938

510 Penn Street

'Dad, Won't You Come Back?'

Mrs. Julia Joyce, of 516 Penn street, appealed to the Courier-Post and the police yesterday to aid in a search for her husband, Jesse, who disappeared from his home, last Saturday. Barbara, 5, and Stanley, 18 months, pictured above, join in the appeal for their missing parent's return.

516 Penn Street

The Joyce Family

Camden Courier-Post
June 10, 1933

Family Is Destitute As Father Is Hunted
North Camden Mother of Two Small Children Asks Aid
in Search for Husband Who Disappeared Last Saturday

Within the modest walls of a small North Camden home a young mother and her two children stoically await the return of a missing husband and father.

Left without light or food, the once happy family sits in quiet fortitude hoping against hope that each hour will return to them the one to whom they have always been able to turn.

Faithfully and almost futilely trying to provide, food for her young ones, Mrs. Julia Joyce, 30, of 516 Penn Street, Thursday asked the police to find her missing husband, Jesse, 32.

He went out Saturday morning to try to get a job," she sobbed to Detective William Boettcher, of the missing persons bureau, "and I have not seen him since. The only food I have is that which is given to us by the relief and now that my husband is gone. I am afraid they will take our order away from us.

"Our gas and electric was shut off two weeks ago and I have been cooking on a coal range and using candles for light. I don't know who to turn to and I am so worried I don't know what I will do."

The two children are Barbara, five, and Stanley, 18 months. The daughter is the child of another marriage. Mrs. Joyce married for the second time after a divorce from her first husband two years ago.

"I don't see how Jesse could have done this to me and the children. It was hard getting along with him here but without him it looks still blacker. ,

"I have had to go to Cooper hospital for treatment since my husband left and the children are not in the best of health either. Ever since he lost his job in a restaurant six months ago, he has been discouraged and worried over how we would get along.

"Through the kindness of the relief we have managed pretty well but right now it looks as though I am staring a blank wall in the face,"

Mrs. Joyce described her husband as being about five feet, 11 inches tall, of slender build, weighing about 138 pounds. He has dark brown hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a gray soft hat, a gray summer suit and black oxfords. He has a scar on the right hand and one on the right ear.

Wife on Bus Spots Missing Husband Sitting in Park

The sharp eyes of Mrs. Julia Joyce, 30, of 516 Penn Street, resulted in the return of her missing husband yesterday.

Weeks after she reported his disappearance to the police, Mrs. Joyce saw her husband, Jesse, sitting in Franklin Square while she was riding on a bus.

She alighted from the bus and persuaded her husband to return to their home where she and her two children have been trying to get along on a food order supplied by the city emergency.

Joyce, after agreeing to return home, said that he left because he was worried over the financial affairs of his household.

516 Penn Street

The Joyce Family

Camden Courier-Post
June 24, 1933

517 Penn Street

1890 H.B. Hanford

COURT SENDS GIRL, 15, TO HOME OF HER SISTER

One of the five children of Joseph White, a former Camden hotel proprietor, who have been county charges, found a home yesterday.

White, who lives at 517 Penn Street, was rebuked in police court by Judge Pancoast last week, for buying expensive clothing and wearing diamonds while his ten children were in need. Welfare workers said he failed to contribute to the support of the five children in homes here and in Trenton.

The recent hearing was a result of White bringing his 15-year-old daughter, Dorothy, into court as an incorrigible. The charge was disproved today in the opinion of Judge Samuel Shay, sitting in juvenile court. He granted the request of Dorothy's married sister, Mrs. Catherine Graham, of Magnolia, to have the girl live with her.

517 Penn Street

Joseph White

Camden Courier-Post
October 21, 1931

545 Penn Street

1927-1928 James O'Donnell

546 Penn Street

1970s-1980s Empire Securities Inc.

548 Penn Street

Intersection of North 6th Street & Penn Street

	Southeast Corner 1929 North Camden Trust Co. 1929 Michael Jubanyik contractor 1929-1947 Kenworthy & Clark Bennett Clark law firm General Radio Supply 1950s-1970 Destroyed by fire March 30, 1970
	1933 Publicity Delicatessen

600 Penn Street - The Miracle of Easter - March 30, 1970

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Manpower of two Engine Companies get big line into service and give fire "a dash" from the street before attempting interior attack at Fourth Alarm, North 6th & Penn Streets, March 30, 1970.


Fourth Alarm for fire and collapse at electronics supply house, North 6th & Penn Streets, center city in March 1970. Scene depicts exterior operations at height of fire as heavy smoke vents from building. Roof and top floor of building collapsed trapping members of Engine Company 1

Members access basement and prepare to advance handline through sidewalk cellar doors during overhaul at Fourth Alarm, North 6th & Penn Streets- 3-30-1970

All hands anxiously await their turn on the inside during rescue operations following collapse of fire building on Easter Monday, March 1970. At time of collapse Engine 1 was operating handline on second floor while overhauling. Without warning roof and second floor pancaked into first floor and basement. Captain Phillip Maycott and Fire Fighters Alston, DeHart, Maroldo and Winters were buried amid tons of rubble. All members managed to extricate themselves except for "the Officer and the Probie".

Removed from ruins of collapse is Probationary Fire Fighter John Maroldo. Maroldo narrowly escaping certain death after being entombed for over an hour is seen shouting at members to "find my captain".

Captain Vincent Orme, Engine Company 7 reassures Maroldo that continuing rescue operations are underway.


Captain Maycott as last member removed from collapse is carried to waiting ambulance. Units at scene breached walls and performed tunneling and shoring operations to reach trapped members. Both Maycott and Maroldo miraculously escaped with just bruises and sprains. Remaining members of Engine 1 were treated for cuts and scrapes following near catastrophe on March 30, 1970.

600 Block of Penn Street 622 to 646 Penn Street
	600 Penn Street 1929 North Camden Trust Co. 1929 Michael Jubanyik contractor 1929-1947 Kenworthy & Clark Bennett Clark law firm General Radio Supply 1950s-1970 Destroyed by fire March 30, 1970
FR. TURNER TO SPEAK AT RETREAT MEETING Knights of Columbus Plan to Enroll 100 Here in Laymen's Movement The second meeting of the Camden Knights of Columbus Retreat Club will be held at their home, 603 Penn Street, tonight at 8-30 p. m. The Knights are sponsoring the Laymen's Retreat movement in Camden and have set their goal at 100 men. The retreat will be held at San Alfonso Retreat House at West End, the weekend of July 23. Tonight's meeting will be known as "East-Side night," and a delegation of men from St. Joseph's parish will welcome Father Joseph Turner, C. S. S. R., who will be the principal speaker. Father Turner is one of the pioneers of the Laymen's Retreat movement in this country, being responsible for the establishment of the Retreat House at West End. San Alfonso Retreat House was opened in 1927, with less than 50 laymen retreatants and has steadily grown each year. During the year of 1937 a total of 1800 retreatants was reached. Much of this progress is due to the efforts of Father Turner, who was the Retreat master for a period of more than two years. Past Grand Knight Reynolds is the Retreat captain.	603 Penn Street 1938 Camden Knights of Columbus Retreat Club Camden Courier-Post February 7, 1938

Intersection of Broadway & Penn Street

Southwest Corner

1929 North Camden Trust Co.
1929 Michael Jubanyik
contractor
1929-1947 Kenworthy & Clark
Bennett Clark
law firm
General Radio Supply
1950s-1970

Destroyed by fire March 30, 1970

600 Block of Penn Street 622 to 646 Penn Street
	622 Penn Street
	634 Penn Street 1957-1970s Dr. Jose A. Sosa
	646 Penn Street

Intersection of North 7th Street & Penn Street

703 Block of Penn Street 703 to 731 Penn Street
	703 Penn Street
	712 Penn Street Wilfred Dube Jr.
	712 Penn Street William W.L. Dube
	725 Penn Street 1933 Samuel & Mabel Ermelious
	727 Penn Street 1932 Rayfield Hartman
	731 Penn Street

Intersection of North 8th Street & Penn Street

800 Block of Penn Street 800 to 898 Penn Street
	800 Penn Street
	821 Penn Street 1933 Edward S. Schaen
	832 Penn Street 1920s Charles J. Fox
	898 Penn Street 1933 Pio Marozzi

Intersection of North 9th Street & Penn Street

900 Block of Penn Street 900 to 946 Penn Street
	900 Penn Street
Car Hits Standard Mrs. Margaret A. Wagner, 26, of 906 Penn street, suffered bruises of both legs when a car driven by her husband, William H. Wagner, 29, struck a traffic standard at Third Street and Cooper Streets as he was attempting to turn the corner.	900 Penn Street Camden Courier-Post February 7, 1938
DEMOCRATS MEET MONDAY There will be a meeting of the Second Ward Democratic Club at 8 p. m. Monday at 916 Penn street. There will be two prominent Democratic speakers present.	916 Penn Street Second Ward Democratic Club Camden Courier-Post June 3, 1933
SECOND WARD CLUB HEARS ALBERT MARVEL Party loyalty was stressed last night at a meeting of the Second Ward Democratic Club by Albert S. Marvel, new chairman of the Camden County Democratic Committee. He expressed optimism over the outcome of the coming campaign. He offered his time and services to the club. The club decided to hold a river excursion in July and a block party in August.	916 Penn Street Second Ward Democratic Club Camden Courier-Post June 6, 1933
Woman, 75, Hurt On Stairway Lies 8 Hours Senseless A North Camden woman is in Cooper Hospital suffering from injuries received when she fell down stairs and lay unconscious for more than eight hours. Mrs. Clara Clayton, 75, of 937 Penn Street, was found unconscious yesterday by her son, Richard Prickett, a watchman at State Street bridge, at Cooper River, who returned from duty at 7 a.m. Prickett telephoned to police headquarters and the First district ambulance took the injured woman to the hospital, where she was found to have suffered bruises of the head and body and possible concussion of the brain. .	937 Penn Street Mrs. Clara Clayton Richard Prickett Camden Courier-Post June 13, 1933
Walter T. Ridgeway, of 924 Penn Street, reported the theft of a heater and radio speaker from his automobile while it was parked in his garage on Twelfth Street near Lawrence. Ridgeway said the lock on the garage had been forced.	924 Penn Street 1938 Walter T. Ridgeway Camden Courier-Post February 7, 1938
	934 Penn Street 1895-1899 William W. Pattterson Camden Fire Department
	946 Penn Street 1933 Steinberg's Pharmacy

Intersection of North 10th Street & Penn Street
	Penn Street

1000 Block of Penn Street 1001 to 1013 Penn Street
	1001 Penn Street 1933 Lepp Company
3 SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN DROWNING OF MAN A mother's persistent entreaties that the Camden police further investigate the death of her son resulted yesterday in the arrest of two women and a man on suspicion of manslaughter. The arrests were made by City Detective George Zeitz in connection with the drowning Saturday night a week ago of Briggs Miller, 26, colored, of 2820 Mitchell street. The body was found last Monday in Cooper creek at the head of Twelfth street. Since the death of her son, Mrs. Sallie Robinson, twice married, communicated with the police several times, telling of her suspicion that her boy was pushed from a boat. Under arrest are Regina Ganges, 32, of 1011 Penn street; Shetta Johnson, 37, of 311 Chester street, and Solomon Waples, 33, of 2820 Mitchell street, all colored.	1011 Penn Street Regina Ganges Camden Courier-Post August 8, 1933
	1013 Penn Street

Intersection of Chester Street & Penn Street
	Penn Street

1000 Block of Penn Street 1014 to 1027 Penn Street
	1015 Penn Street
SLEEPING MAN NABBED Samuel Boykin, 39, of 1022 Penn Street, was arrested on a drunk and disorderly charge last night after police found him asleep in. his car parked in a bus zone at Tenth and Penn streets. He was held in $15 security for a hearing today..	1022 Penn Street 1933 Samuel Boykin Camden Courier-Post June 15, 1933
NAP IN PARKED AUTO BRINGS 30 DAYS IN JAIL Because Samuel Boykin, 29, of 1022 Penn Street, insisted on sleeping in an automobile parked in a restricted area, he will pass the next 30 nights in jail. Police Judge Pancoast, in sending Boykin to jail on a charge of being drunk and disorderly, also indicated he would spend the same number of days in jail. Motorcycle Policeman Walter Vecander testified he went to Broadway and Market street on complaint of a motorist who said a man was sleeping in his car. Boykin was taken to police headquarters but released when the motorist refused to sign a complaint. Fifteen minutes later Boykin was sound asleep in the same automobile, Vecander said. Boykin admitted he had been drinking but denied he had been driving while intoxicated or that he was disorderly. A charge of illegal parking was dismissed..	1022 Penn Street 1933 Samuel Boykin Camden Courier-Post June 16, 1933
	1027 Penn Street

Intersection of Summit Street & Penn Street
	Penn Street

1000 Block of Penn Street 1028 to 1041 Penn Street
	1001 Penn Street
	1027 Penn Street 1912 Mrs. Anne Baxter & Sons Anne Baxter David James Baxter William Baxter

Intersection of North 11th Street & Penn Street

1100 Block of Penn Street 1100 to 1199 Penn Street
	1100 Penn Street
	1113 Penn Street 1910 James Baxter Family James & Anne Baxter David James Baxter William Baxter
BUS JUMPER JAILED Arrested by George Jefferis, a motorcycle policeman, to break his mania for jumping on the back of buses, Samuel Harper, colored, 21, of 1136 Penn street, yesterday was sentenced by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast to 30 days in jail in default of a $25 fine.	1136 Penn Street 1933 Samuel Harper Camden Courier-Post June 17, 1933
	1150 Penn Street 1900s-1910s W.W. & Isabella Ross 1900s-1910s Everett W. Staley
	1152 Penn Street 1929 George Nicktern
POLICE ASKED TO HUNT 2 MOORESTOWN GIRLS Camden police last night were asked to assist in the search for Julia Paoli, 20, and her sister, Gilda, 18, who have been missing from their home, 214 Mill Street, Moorestown, for the past two years. The request came from relatives of the girls on behalf of their mother, Mrs. Marguerite Juliana, who is seriously ill at the Mill street address. The sisters left home after an argument with their stepfather, Joseph Juliana. A sister, Mrs. Valerie Brooks lives at 1170 Penn street.	1170 Penn Street Mrs. Valerie Brooks Camden Courier-Post March 25, 1930
	1194 Penn Street 1933 Sarah Stone
	1199 Penn Street

Intersection of North 12th Street & Penn Street