Category: Hotels and Motels

Hotels and Motels of Camden, NJ — from the seedy to the swanky

View of Hotel Ridgway - Southeast corner of Market Street & Delaware Avenue - 1914
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Hotel Ridgway

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.

Postcard image of the Plaza Club Hotel, 1935
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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.

Photo from ~1970. In that year the Towne Park Motel advertised in the Camden Courier-Post, "The all new Towne Park Motel, 8th and Market, Camden. $8.50 Sunday to Thursday"
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Towne Park Motel

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 1990s it had devolved into a rooming house, inhabited mostly by junkies. prostitutes, and other undesirables. It was razed early in the 2000’s.

The Hotel Walt Whitman, located virtually on the Delaware Bridge Plaza in the heart of thee business section, is a monument to the community spirit of Camden, having been built through the assistance of citizens. It has justified the confidence of its backers.
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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.