Category: Hotels and Motels
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Victoria Hotel
201 Kaighn Avenue The Victoria Hotel, located at 201 Kaighn Avenue, is believed to have been constructed sometime after 1891, with records indicating that it was operational by 1908. Julius Allendorf, the long-time owner of the establishment, was born in Philadelphia around 1867. He hailed from a family with a brewing background, as his father,…
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Gordon’s Hotel and Livery
802 South 2nd Street; Corner of South 2nd Street and Pine Street The Gordon family’s entrepreneurial journey began around the year 1876 when Thomas Gordon, alongside his wife Maria, embarked on a venture that would shape their legacy for generations to come. Establishing a saloon and stable at 801 South 2nd Street in Camden, New…
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Hotel Ridgway
Southeast Corner of Delaware Avenue and Market Street The West Jersey Hotel at Delaware Avenue and Market Street was built by the West Jersey Ferry Company in 1849. It was run by different parties through the ensuing years. Stephen Parsons operated the business from 1884 until his passing in 1890. The name was changed to…
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The Hotel Plaza
The Hotel Plaza was built at Fifth and Cooper Street in 1927, and was originally called the Plaza Club Hotel. In 1947 it underwent a complete remodeling. Hotel owner S.N. Petchers of New York explained that the high cost of modernization was “justified in my belief that Camden will continue one of the leading industrial…
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Towne Park Motel
800 Block of Market Street, Camden, NJ The Towne Park Motel stood in the 800 block of Market Street in Camden NJ. Built after World War II, its business declined as Camden’s economy fell off. By the early 1990’s it had devolved into a rooming house, inhabited mostly by junkies, prostitutes, and other undesirables. It…
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Hotel Walt Whitman
The Walt Whitman Hotel was a venture championed by the Greater Camden Movement, a coalition of business and civic leaders that began to coalesce shortly before and during World War I. They had proven highly effective in raising county-wide funds to support the American war effort. Post-war, their ambitious vision to invigorate economic recovery and…