EXHIBIT C- STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES of the HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION

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Chapin Park Local Historic District Guidebook Page 55 624 Portage Avenue American Foursquare Built as an investment property between 1903 and 1906, several families have subsequently lived here: Vernon Hastings (1906), Lincoln Beyerle (1908), George and Jennie Simon (1910), John Cromley (1912) and John Duncan (1914-1916). 626 Portage Avenue 19th-Century Commercial Functional Also known as 526 Portage Avenue, this building predates 1899. It has housed a variety of shops and stores during its existence includ- ing the A & P Food Store and Tea Shop and the Norman Mumford Food Market and Grocery. 627 Portage Avenue Queen Anne Records date this house to 1900. Stuart MacKibben is listed at this address in 1906. Oliver Hungerford resided here from 1910 until 1912. James, an engineer for Singer Brothers, and Elizabeth Kerr lived here with their daughters, Helen and Jean, and Elizabeth’s mother, Adelaide, from 1912 into the 1920s. 628 Portage Avenue American Foursquare/Queen Anne Built as an investment property circa 1902, several residents have occupied this house including Arthur Niblock, Walter and [May] Sweet, William Yates, and James and Katherine Bryan. By 1938, the house was converted into three apartments and later became a church. 629 Portage Avenue Gabled-T Formerly known as 527APortage Avenue, this house was built prior to 1899. By 1908, Mary J. Garwood had purchased the home after living on Forest Avenue. She also continued to live with her sister, Lydia, who was a seamstress. Lydia acquired the house from her sister by 1916 and lived here until 1919. 630-632 Portage Ave Queen Anne Built between 1904 and 1906, this building housed both commercial and residential uses such as Christian Grimm’s meat store. The Grimms lived nearby at 703 Leland Avenue. The building also housed the Chapin Park Market and Colonial Cleaners & Tailors.