Warren Library Association - Historic Photographs

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Dwellings
Lesser sisters house and store building, 309 and 311 Third Avenue West, shortly before being razed to make way for a New Process Company addition. Photo by Harold C. Putnam, April 15, 1958.
Dwellings, Churches
Lesser sisters house and store building, 309 and 311 Third Avenue West, shortly before being razed to make way for a New Process Company (2004 Blair Corp) addition/annex. At center is the First Evangelical United Brethren Church, which was later razed. Photo by Harold C. Putnam, April 15, 1958.
Churches, Dwellings, Courthouses
A view north beyond Third Avenue from Liberty Street ca 1917. Left to right: First Baptist Church, Fletcher Parker house (site of Warren Post Office), Jackson-Sill house, and the Starling Waters house. Partly obscured by the tree at center is the tower of the Warren County courthouse.
Dwellings, People
The Lewis Arnett house on east side of Liberty Street (200 block) being demolished in 1875 for building of Dr. William V. Hazeltine, later the site of Conewango Building and Loan, Warren Trust Company, and Floridin Company owned by Donald C. Smith in 1954. Now (2004) site of the Spiridon building, offices of the Allegheny National Forest.
Dwellings
Looking south on Liberty Street from near Third Avenue in 1917. The homes are, left to right, Archibald Tanner-Glenni Scofield and Otis Hoffman. The Hoffman business block stands behind the house on the corner at Second Avenue.
Dwellings, Historical societies, Churches
View from above Liberty Street, looking southeast across Fifth Avenue, in 1873. At center is the brick mansard-roofed Struthers-Wetmore-Schimmelfeng house (now -2004- Warren County Historical Society headquarters). To its left is the tall spire of the First Presbyterian Church on Market Street.
Streets, Dwellings, Businesses
A view east on Pennsylvania Avenue (then Water Street) from Liberty Street about 1875 showing the very early homes and businesses which occupied the south side of the block.
Celebrations, Dwellings, Hotels
Looking east on Second Avenue across Market Street in 1876 during the U.S.A. Centennial. At left is the Lewis F. Watson house (site of First Methodist Church) and at right is the Ludlow House hotel, later site of Warren High School and then Market Street School.
Dwellings, Buildings
Starling Waters house on the north side of Second Avenue between East and Market Streets, circa 1890. William Greaves photo.
Dwellings, Streets
Starling Waters house on the north side of Second Avenue between East and Market Streets circa 1890.
Dwellings, Oil well drilling rigs, Streams
View ca 1878 looking east over Warren from Tanner Hill. The brick David Beaty mansion, surrounded by his large acreage dotted with oil wells, appears just right of center in the middle distance across Conewango Creek.
Dwellings
The Tanner-Scofield house, east side of Liberty Street between Second and Third Avenues (in 2004 the site of the former Montgomery Ward building). Built in 1833, it was razed in 1928. Photo 1895 (?)
Dwellings, Libraries, Post offices
Third Avenue looking west to Liberty Street, Fletcher Parker house (site of post office) and Struthers Library building. Right of the Parker house are the Norman C. Allen house, and the YMCA, December 1929."
Automobiles, Dwellings, Parks
The Thomas Clemons house stood on the southeast corner of Fourth Avenue and Market Street. It was built in 1836 and enlarged in 1860. Shown here in 1953, the house was razed in 1965. The lot is now a city park.
Dwellings, People, Buildings
315 Fourth Avenue (High Street) about 1886. Thomas Clemons house, built in 1836 and 1860. Donald P. Falconer on fence at left; Robert C. Falconer on fence at right near tree; left to right behind fence - Madge Patton (St. Marys), Mrs. N.S. Falconer (seated on steps), Mr. N.S. Falconer (seated), Frank Clemons (standing near fence), Ellen M. Clemons (standing between windows, and J. Alice Clemons (seated between windows).
Dwellings, Churches
The Thomas Struthers house at the northeast corner of Market Street and Third Avenue in 1895, shortly before being razed to make way for the present (2004) First Presbyterian Church. The stone portion was built in 1856, probably as a main addition to the frame structure at the rear.
Dwellings, Buildings, Aerial views
View of the south side, the intersection of St. Clair Street with approach to the suspension bridge, probably in 1917. The house at center and the gardens were later the site of Ekey's floral shop and greenhouse.
Dwellings, Railroads
The William D. Brown house at the southeast corner of Fourth Avenue and Liberty Street was built in 1867. It is shown here in 1873, in a view across the tracks of the Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley & Pittsburgh Railroad. Today (2004) the home is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Citro.