Penn Street originally ran through the current campus, following the walkway where you are now standing.

Past residents of the 400 block of Penn Street (this block) included:

Max and Mollie Marker, European Jewish immigrants without formal education, who purchased and ran an apartment building (400 Penn, 1924-52).

Eldridge Johnson, later founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company (boarded at 407 Penn, 1896-97).

Pastors of the Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church (409 Penn, 1909-52).

Ida Northrop, founder and operator of the Raymond Academy and Kindergarten private school (421 Penn, 1886-94; school at 419 Penn financed by her famous uncle, the New York multimillionaire Jay Gould).

Alfred Cramer Sr., developer of Camden’s Cramer Hill neighborhood (433 Penn, 1901-12).

John R. Johnson, portrait artist and Civil War veteran, a friend of poet Walt Whitman (434 Penn, 1873-95).

Numerous tenants, including employees of Camden industries and public-school teachers who rented rooms or apartments.

Residents of the 300 block of Penn Street (currently the walkway between the Campus Center and the Quad) included:

Thomas McLernon, an Irish-born dentist and founder of a free dental clinic (300 Penn, 1920-28; before that at 322 Penn, 1909-17).

John and Tassie Staszko, Ukrainian refugees who survived Nazi and Soviet occupation, and their two children (300 Penn, 1950).

Abraham Anderson, one of the original partners in the firm that became Campbell’s Soup  (302 Penn, 1906-15; other Anderson family members lived across the street).

Minerva Stackhouse, a teacher and principal in Camden public schools for nearly 50 years (304 Penn, 1904-24).

Anna Bode, owner and operator of five apartment houses (300 block, 1940s).

Isaac Martindale, a bank teller and devoted botanist, who amassed a butterfly collection said to be the finest in the country (322 Penn, 1874-93).

Alice B. Doughten, a landscape and portrait artist who studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and in Europe (327 Penn, 1887-1930).

Doctors Mabel G. and C. Byron Lesher, who served as medical missionaries in China for 17 years (331 Penn, 1929-43).

Antoinette Lowe, age 2, died from lead paint poisoning in a third-floor rented room where she lived with her mother and two siblings (323 Penn, 1959).

For all known occupants of Penn Street between Third and Fifth Streets, visit the Penn Street Residents Database.