EXHIBIT C- STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES of the HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION

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Guidebook Chapin Park Local Historic District Page 2 The District and Its Properties HISTORY The Chapin Park Local Historic District (the District) is an architecturally unique, mainly residential area located close to downtown South Bend, Leeper Park, Memorial Hospital and the Saint Joseph River. Although many individuals were involved in the development of Chapin Park, the District is named for the Chapin family, who had early ties to South Bend and held interests in the District for one hundred years. THE CHAPIN FAMILY Martha Emiline (d.1846) and Horatio Chapin (1803-1871) settled in South Bend in 1831. The youthful town had just been platted by Alexis Coquillard and Lathrop Taylor and con- tained only a few log buildings. Horatio soon became active in religious and business affairs. He applied for and received a license to sell foreign goods – items from across state lines – and opened a dry goods store. By 1834, he had co-founded the ecumenical Union Sabbath School, was named its Superintendent and assisted the founding of the First Presbyterian Church. When the State Bank of Indiana opened its South Bend branch in 1838, Chapin became its cashier and worked for the bank until 1862. This position would provide him the fortuitous opportunity to purchase forty wooded acres north of South Bend. From 1862 until 1865, he managed the private banking firm of Chapin, Wheeler & Co. in Chicago, and then retired to his picturesque estate, once called Chapin’s Place, Chapin’s Park and even Chapin’s Grove. Horatio and Martha Chapin had four children: Mary (1836-1905), Martha (1840-1873), Edward (1842-1928) and Sarah (1844-1868). Unfortunately, Mrs. Chapin did not live to see any of her children reach their teenage years. She died in 1846 when Mary, her oldest child, was barely ten. After the passage of the traditional mourning period, Horatio married Caroline Lucy Merritt on May 12, 1848. But, just six days before their tenth wedding anniversary, Caroline passed away. In April 1859, Horatio married Phoebe Ann Wade (d.1893) who would survive him by more than twenty years. Mary Chapin married attorney Andrew Anderson in 1857, and they raised two daughters: Emma Anderson DuShane and Jennie Anderson Putman. In 1876, Edward married Marie Lamont Cushing, the widow of his business partner, Quincy Cushing, and had two chil- dren, Wilber Storey Chapin, who died at the age of two, and Marie Pearl Chapin (1879- 1914). Edward’s second wife, Lenora Lamont Chapin, lived at 856 Forest from 1916 until her death in 1941, and Mary’s granddaughter, Mary DuShane, resided in the family home, 710 Park, until she passed away in 1962.