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853 FOREST <br />LOCAL LANDMARK <br />FIRST READING /PROPOSAL <br />The Charles E. Clipfall House located at 853 Forest can be considered for local landmark <br />status based on the following reasons: <br />1. It is historically important and connected to the development of the area <br />because the house was built on Lot 37 of Chapin's 1st Addition purchased <br />from Edward Chapin in 1892 by Charles E. Clipfall, a bookkeeper. Mr. <br />Clipfall sold the house to Albert G. Harlin in 1903. Mr. Harlin was Fifth <br />Ward Councilman, 1894 -1897, during the administration of Mayor David B.J. <br />Schaefer. In 1904 Mr. Harlin sold the house to Mr. William Happ a real estate <br />salesman. Mr. Happ was also Secretary- Treasurer of the Round Table, an <br />elite dinner - discussion gentlemen's club. It is architecturally important as a <br />fine example of Stick Style house built in 1892 that has survived with minor <br />alterations to this day. <br />2. Its educational value as an architecturally significant home owned by notable <br />citizens of South Bend involved in the economic, social and political <br />developments of the city. <br />3. Its suitability for preservation because it is rated architecturally Significant on <br />our City Survey as a Gabled T /Stick Style built in 1892. <br />