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Camden rising

Two returning natives revive the city’s history, one house at a time.

By Bobby Ampezzan

Posted: February 28, 2010 at 6:01 a.m.

Staton Breidenthal The Ritchie-Crawford House was a seminal restoration effort two decades ago in the Clifton-Greening neighborhood project. Today, it’s empty, but for the stories.

“The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.” — Italo Calvino. The banks of Washington Street are lined with ghosts. They bear the names of city fathers — Chidester, Graham, Elliot and Umsted. Their haunts are classical and Craftsman by genre, antebellum and post-industrial by era.

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