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William Stanley Ablett Village is a 306-unit public housing project at River Road and State Street in the Cramer Hill section of Camden, built by the Housing Authority of the City of Camden during World War II and named for a Camden soldier killed in action in France during World War I.
Ablett Village is a public housing project at State Street and River Road in Camden, constructed during World War II and operated by the Housing Authority of the City of Camden. Named after William Stanley Ablett.
A 2008 Courier-Post report on drug dealing, three unsolved homicides and a proposed trespassing ordinance at Ablett Village, with residents largely unwilling to speak on the record. Camden Courier-Post, May 5, 2008.
The City of Camden ordinance releasing and extinguishing the public rights in Clay Street between South Second Street and Front Street, as part of the City Centre urban renewal project. Camden Courier-Post, October 12, 1974.
The Camden Housing Authority acquired the first parcel of land for its 368-unit low-rent East Camden housing development, presenting a check to Mr. and Mrs. John Dyer for their home at 2120 Berwick Street.
The Camden Housing Authority names engineer William T. Harker to begin surveys for a new low-rent housing project of 800 homes, and approves a newspaper stand at Ablett Village for blind resident Cora Gideon of 588 Berkley Street.
Excavation began at River Road and State Street for a $1,677,000, 306-family defense housing project to be known as William Stanley Ablett Village. Camden Courier-Post, June 11, 1942.
The Camden Housing Authority awarded four contracts totaling $1,224,841 for 306 homes on the Moro Phillips tract, to be known as the William Stanley Ablett Village. Camden Courier-Post, April 25, 1942.
A March 1942 account from "Housing in Camden" of how the Camden Housing Authority's third public housing project — a $1,409,000 development designated N.J. 10-2 — was funded, and how the rule was set that it be named for a Camden native killed in action.
The Camden Housing Authority announced U.S. Housing Authority approval of a $1,566,000 defense housing project of 306 units on the south side of East State Street between Cooper Creek and River Avenue. Camden Courier-Post, January 17, 1942.