Category: Hotels and Motels
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Victoria Hotel
The Victoria Hotel, 201 Kaighn Avenue, is believed to have been constructed sometime after 1891.
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Gordon’s Hotel and Livery
This decision introduced new characters into the narrative, including a somewhat notorious figure, blending politics with a shadowy underworld presence in Camden’s Third Ward.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.