South Jersey Gas, Electric and Traction Company Office Building
- Year
- 1901
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Philadelphia, PA
Built in 1901 as the office building for the South Jersey Gas, Electric and Traction Company, this Beaux-Arts building in Camden later took on a second life as the main branch of the Camden Free Public Library, until that branch closed in 2011. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 5, 2005.
the style
The Beaux-Arts style suited the building's original role as the public face of a major utility company, lending a corporate office the formal grandeur usually reserved for civic buildings.
More on Beaux-Artssignificance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 5, 2005. The building's public role continued after the utility left, serving as the Camden Free Public Library's main branch until it closed in 2011.
nearby
- Dr. Henry Genet Taylor House and Office
- Wilson Building
- Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
- Nipper Building
- Walt Whitman House
- One Port Center