The city hall was designed by Byron Edwards and Alfred Green, architectural partners who moved from Philadelphia to Camden in 1928,[1] and its materials were supplied by the Otis Elevator Company.

The building features a slender tower rising from a massive base, and its facade is composed of light gray granite.

[2][3] Camden's first city hall was built in 1876 at the corner of Benson Street and Haddon Avenue, where present day Cooper University Hospital (Kelemen Pavilion at 1 Cooper Plaza) is located.

The front of the building has the phrase "No Legacy is so Rich as Honesty",[5] a line from All's Well that Ends Well by William Shakespeare.

[7] The front also bears the inscription "Where There is no Vision the People Perish",[5] a quote from Proverbs 29:18 of the King James Bible.