EXHIBIT C- STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES of the HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION

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Guidebook Chapin Park Local Historic District Page 20 847 Forest Queen Anne This house was built in 1891 for William and Francis Geltz. William was a real estate agent and clerk at Frankel’s. In 1903, Frederick and Minna Teuscher purchased the house. He was a Swiss immigrant and a salesman of stationary products. By 1920, James and Anna Proud had purchased the home from the Teuschers. 849 Forest Gable Front Mary and Charles Bunn, a lumber salesman, purchased this lot in 1896; the house was built by 1898. The Bunns sold the house to William and Cora Goodman in 1909. In 1925, Ernest W. Young remodeled the house for Helen and Neil Robertson. Robertson man- aged the American Trust Co. and owned the Hoosier Rubber Co. 850 Forest Gabled-T/English Cottage Jacob Secor purchased this lot in 1893 and built the house by 1895 as an investment property. He worked for Staley’s, a manufacturer of woolen products. In 1901, Jacob sold the house to Hannah and William Davies Sr., of Davies Laundry and Cleaning Co. In 1921, Ernest Young remodeled the house, and in 1923, Hannah sold it to her son and daughter-in-law, William and Esther Davies Jr. 853 Forest Gabled-T/Stick Style Charles Chipfall, a bookkeeper, purchased this lot in 1892. The house was built by 1893. From 1899 to 1901, Dumont Lotz, a school principal, and his wife, Minnie, resided at this address. In 1904, William Happ, a real estate developer, bought the house from Albert Harlin. Happ’s eldest son, Willard, and his wife, Blanche, acquired the house in the early 1940s. 856 Forest Gabled-T/Stick Style This property remained in the Chapin-Lamont family until 1941. Edward Chapin had the house built around 1890 as an investment property. In 1910, he moved to this house with his daughter, Pearl, who died in 1914. In 1916, Edward married Leonora Lamont Chapin, the niece of his first wife. They lived here until their deaths in 1928 and 1941. 857 Forest Gabled-T This house was built for Henry Miller by 1891. Miller owned a wall- paper, stationery and paint store. His wife, Anna [Alice], and their daughter, Sadie (b. 1878), also worked in the store as clerks. Henry lived in this house for over forty years until 1938.