Warren Library Association - Historic Photographs

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An archive of over 300 digital images from the library's Historic Warren Photograph Collection.

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Banks, Streets, Buildings
Second Warren Savings Bank building when new in 1891. Pavement to left was the first in town, 1891.
Buildings, Banks, Churches, Schools
View north from above the south side in 1916 or 1917. Prominent large buildings are left, the First Methodist Church (site of city fire station), the Struthers Library Building, and right, the Warren Bank and Trust (now, 2004, National City Bank). Note the two large gravel pits at center, now obscured below the 1961 Warren High School on Fifth Avenue East.
Banks, Buildings
Warren Savings Bank at The Point, Second and Pennsylvania Avenue, about 1875. This building was constructed in front of the Watson-Davis block, the 3-story building directly behind it.
Banks, Buildings, Fires
The Warren Savings Bank and the three-story Watson-Davis block immediately behind about 1890. These buildings and two others attached to the east were destroyed in a February 1889 fire. They were replaced in 1891 by the new Warren Savings Bank building, now (2004) National City Bank. On either side of the triangular block, across Liberty Street, are left, Johnson's Exchange, and right, the Struthers Hotel. The latter building was razed in 2003 to be replaced in 2004 by a new headquarters building for Northwest Savings Bank.
Banks, Street railroads
The Warren Savings Bank building at Pennsylvania and Second Avenue in 1910 or slightly later. Note streetcar disappearing from view at far right.
Fires, Banks, Buildings
The Lewis Watson-John Davis block/Warren Savings Bank fire of 1889. A view toward the south side of Second Avenue, the three-story Watson-Davis building at center, and the bank attached to the right.
Banks, Streets
View east on Pennsylvania Avenue from near Hickory Street about 1885. The original Warren Savings Bank building, shown here on The Point, burned in 1889. Its replacement was built in 1891.
Fires, Buildings, Banks
The Watson-Davis Block/Warren Savings Bank fire of 1889 in a view west on Second Avenue to The Point. This entire triangular block is now (2006) occupied the Northwest Savings Bank (1965) and the National City Bank (1891) buildings.