427 Cooper Street
Contributing structure, Cooper Street Historic District.
413 Cooper Street
Contributing structure, Cooper Street Historic District.
411 Cooper Street
Contributing structure, Cooper Street Historic District.
Linden Terrace Residents Database (Linden Street, Fourth to Fifth Streets)
Data about past residents of the 400 block of Linden Street in Camden, NJ. Developed in 1871, this block known as Linden Terrace was a distinctive development of 34 stone-facade row houses on a widened street landscaped with three oval parks with fountains. The block began to lose its coherence in the 1920s and 1930s when some houses on the north side were demolished for construction of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge and light rail to Philadelphia. Urban renewal to create the Rutgers-Camden campus took down the rest of the block in 1962-66. The site is now occupied by Armitage Hall and its adjacent parking lot.
Camden, NJ, City Directories, U.S. and New Jersey Census; property deeds, Camden newspapers.
Rutgers University-Camden
1871-1960s
Compiled by students and faculty at Rutgers-Camden: Edward Cassidy, John Coon, Joseph Del Percio, Elizabeth Eimer, Kieran Garrity, Connor Kelly, Andrea Macho, Charlene Mires, Jonathan Pustylnik, Malcom Rambert, Johanna Rudel, and Nia Stewart.
Compiled from public sources.
<strong>North side of street, Google Sheets database: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1s_axB2bM0YjItiXkXNHMaqzihDLPQq4IsSaDBO73DTM/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Link here to view</a>.<br /><br />South side of street, Google Sheets database: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19Rq4Oi_xXsGzUbq9XxXKJMr48YLkvEIUziZf-szA7oo/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Link here to view</a>.<br /></strong>
Penn Street (Third to Fifth Street) Residents Database
Data about past residents of Penn Street, between Third and Fifth Streets, in Camden, NJ. These blocks of Penn Street are currently a walkway through the campus of Rutgers University-Camden, closed to traffic. The only surviving structure is the "Ayer Mansion" at 406 Penn Street, currently the location of the Rutgers-Camden Admissions Office.
Camden, N.J., City Directories; U.S. and New Jersey Census; property deeds, Camden newspapers.
Rutgers University-Camden
1860s-1990s
Compiled by Audrey Johnson, Milosz Krupinski, Charlene Mires, and Robin Schwarzmann.
Compiled from public sources.
<strong>Google Sheets database: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1INnGprcu3X9KtsdXav4ufnWiKYowxu-NqKU8QtrwOsA/edit?usp=sharing">Link here to view</a>.</strong>
Fourth Street (Lawrence to Pearl Street) Residents Database
Data about past residents of Fourth Street in Camden, NJ. Fourth Street between Lawrence and Pearl Streets is currently a walkway through the campus of Rutgers-Camden. Earlier, Fourth Street in these blocks developed as a residential street between 1876 and 1880 as the Cooper family sold land north of Cooper Street for residential development. Builders bought single or multiple lots, filled them with three-story row houses or twins, then sold or leased the residences. In the block between Penn and Linden Streets, a number of the homes on the west side of the street were converted in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century for various uses of the <a href="https://cooperstreet.wordpress.com/2021/04/17/567/">North Baptist Church</a>, an important community institution around the corner on Linden Street. Construction of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, completed in 1926, and the subsequent High-Speed Line over the bridge led to demolition of the houses between Linden and Pearl Streets in the 1920s and early 1930s. Other homes on the street survived until the 1960s, when Rutgers University initiated an urban renewal project to enlarge its Camden campus.
Camden, NJ, City Directories; U.S. and New Jersey Census; property deeds; Camden newspapers.
Rutgers University-Camden
1876-1964
Compiled by Charlene Mires, Tia Antonelli, and Brian Phillips
Compiled from public sources.
<strong>Google Sheets Database: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Z0pFu5EkW_jlOhd4p9VlyjIrhVawGxYkpum0tVfa3bg/edit?usp=sharing">Link here to view</a>.</strong>
Cooper Street by Block, 1839-1860 (before house numbering)
Data about residents of Cooper Street in Camden, New Jersey.
Philadelphia city directories (Camden listings) and the U.S. and New Jersey censuses.
Rutgers University-Camden.
1839-1960.
Compiled by Charlene Mires
Compiled from public sources.
For later years, also see <a href="https://omeka.camden.rutgers.edu/collections/show/5"><strong>Cooper Street Database</strong></a>.
Google Sheets database: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ReDb-ps_X08EscIu8yeVQCMIHBHKRgrS1dsBTy86kBk/edit?usp=sharing"><strong>Link here to view.</strong></a>
Blocks Adjacent to Cooper Street, 1839-1860 (before house numbering)
Data about residents in blocks immediately adjacent to Cooper Street in Camden, New Jersey.
Philadelphia city directories (Camden listings) and the U.S. and New Jersey censuses.
Rutgers University-Camden.
1839-1860.
Compiled by Charlene Mires
Compiled from public sources.
Google Sheets database: <strong><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fsFKceqwyg_TUVgFN3zNCITA5YFgQB90s1j7UY9DBHg/edit?usp=sharing">Link here to view</a>.</strong>
Lawrence Street by Block, 1854-1860 (before house numbering)
Data about residents on Lawrence Street in Camden, New Jersey.
Philadelphia city directories (Camden listings) and the U.S. and New Jersey censuses.
Rutgers University-Camden
1854-1860.
Compiled by Charlene Mires.
Compiled from public sources.
For later years also see <a href="https://omeka.camden.rutgers.edu/items/show/15"><strong>Lawrence Street Residents Database</strong></a>.
Google Sheets database: <strong><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cI-_IVB-ei-no50oQzzTn36wz6gTgtHiIXCxq8_s9Rw/edit?usp=sharing">Link here to view</a>.</strong>
527 Cooper Street
Contributing structure, Cooper Street Historic District.