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![[chaba] & BRIDGETON:
The Center for Historic American Building Arts [chaba] is located in Bridgeton, New Jersey, an incorporated city of about six square miles and some 25,000 people that is seat of agricultural Cumberland County in the southernmost quadrant of the state.
Bridgeton is also within the orbit of two major metropolitan centers, Philadelphia and New York, and within half-hour range of the Northeast Corridor, the most traveled in the nation. Its history as a European settlement is related to its strategic location at the top of the tidal estuary Cohansey River, and reaches back more than three hundred years. Its National Register Historic District, containing over 2000 properties, not only qualifies by structure-count as the largest in the state, but represents a living encyclopedia of American residential architecture over more than two centuries.
But also by State standards Bridgeton has qualified as a “distressed city,” meaning that because so many of its inhabitants live at or below poverty it cannot fully meet basic service needs without special assistance.
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...derives its preservation/redevelopment mission from this complex combination of realities: joining Bridgeton’s heritage and eco-tourism potential to its need to meet the challenge of restructuring its economic base.
[more]
City of Bridgeton website
Wikipedia on Bridgeton
City of Bridgeton Historic District Commission 2012 Annual Report
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CHABA is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit!
Your tax-deductible contributions are welcome. Our new home is CHABA,
31 West Commerce Street,
Bridgeton, New Jersey 08302.
email: centerhabarts@gmail.com
All photos by Flavia Alaya
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