Crefeld Street, once a short street extending east from 1540 Haddon Avenue, is noted in the 1943 and 1947 Camden City Directories. While the street still exists, it has likely been decades since anyone gave much thought to its name. The reason for this can be found in its transformation: Crefeld Street, originally located next to the Convent of the Dominican Sisters of the Perpetual Rosary Shrine, became part of the grounds of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital.
In the 1906 Sanborn Map of Camden, Crefeld Street appears as Arion Avenue, planned to extend through to Ormond Avenue. At the time, the area was sparsely developed, with only the convent and a tollhouse on Haddon Avenue.
In December 1945, the Dominican Sisters sold part of their property at Haddon Avenue and Euclid Avenue to the Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Allegany, New York, to facilitate the construction of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. Construction began in September 1947, and Bishop Eustace laid the cornerstone a year later. With this development, Crefeld Street ceased to function as a city street, although it still exists as a driveway on the hospital's north side, providing access to the parking lot on its eastern side. Through traffic to Ormond Avenue has been nonexistent for many decades, if it ever occurred at all after 1947.
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