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Former Camden Home of Heavyweight Boxing Champ Jersey Joe Walcott For Sale
By NEILL BOROWSKI,
2 days ago
The boarded-up house once owned and occupied by heavyweight champion boxer Jersey Joe Walcott. Credits: Provided | Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices, Fox & Roach Realtors
CAMDEN – A bit of Camden’s history is up for sale, but the boarded-up house will need serious attention and rehab investment.
The property at 1500 Baird Boulevard once owned by the late Jersey Joe Walcott, the 1951 heavyweight boxing champion of the world, can be yours for $225,000, according to realty firm Berkshire Hathaway Homeservices | Fox & Roach Realtors .
With 2,517 square feet of living space, the house has four bedrooms and two full bathrooms. It also has living, dining and sun rooms and a kitchen.
The end-unit townhouse that the realty firm calls a “Diamond in the Rough” will be 100 years old next year, according to the listing information.
Jersey Joe – honored with part of his own street in Camden and a statue in Wiggins Park – was born Arnold Raymond Cream and purchased the Baird Boulevard property in 1960. Cream in 1971 was elected Camden County Sheriff, the first African American to be voted into the position.
Cream died in 1994 at age 80 and his son, Arnold Raymond Cream Jr., lived in the Baird Boulevard house afterward with his family.
What could a new owner do at the property, which is a four-minute walk from the Camden High School campus?
To spark the imaginations of prospective buyers, Fox & Roach provided a rendering of a vastly renovated building with a sunroom with large windows and garage below.
The house sits on a 8,930-square-foot lot, which the realty firm says has the potential to hold four to six new residential building lots.
When Jersey Joe knocked out Ezzard Charles in 1951 he was 37 years old and the oldest boxer at that time to win the title. It was his fifth try to win the heavyweight title, according to the International Boxing Hall of Fame . He was inducted into the boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.
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