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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Third Avenue Looking West (1929)
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."
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Third Avenue Swinging Bridge (circa 1900)
Swing bridges, Schools
Third Avenue swinging bridge ca 1900. It was torn down in 1904. Jefferson Street School on Conewango Avenue is at right.
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Third Avenue Swinging Bridge (circa 1900)
Bridges, Rivers
Third Avenue swinging bridge, built in 1870. Photo about 1900. Dismantled in 1904, the footbridge was replaced with an iron structure. A concrete bridge now crosses the Conewango Creek at this location.
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Thomas Clemons House (1953)
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.
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Thomas Clemons House at Fourth Avenue (circa 1886)
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).
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Thomas Struthers House (1895)
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.
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Trinity Episcopal Church - Original (circa 1890)
Churches
The original Trinity Episcopal Church building at Poplar Street and Pennsylvania Avenue West, ca 1890 (?). Built in 1866, it was replaced at the site by a stone church building in 1897. The wooden church was moved to Redwood Street where it became the core of the Calvary Baptist Church. It burned in 1957.
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View from hill above Fifth Avenue (1910)
Churches, Hotels, Railroads, Brewing industry, Hospitals
View from the hill above Fifth Avenue west, 1910. Left to right: St. Joseph's Church, Smith-Horton Company, Pennsylvania Railroad depot, Revere House hotel (behind the depot), Struthers-Wells, and the Pennsylvania Railroad freight depot and yards. Left, across the river, Warren General Hospital, and right of center Warren Brewery. Directly behind the freight depot is the Fairchild-Betts Machine Company and beyond it the West End School surrounded by trees. Note the streetcar at Revere House.
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View of Warren, PA (1863)
Covered bridges, Churches
A view of Warren, looking east, in 1863. At upper center is the covered bridge over Conewango Creek at Pennsylvania Avenue. Church spires are, left to right, Presbyterian, Baptist, Evangelical, and Methodist. Beyond the Methodist Church at far right is the large brick Johnson Exchange building on the southeast corner of Second Avenue and Liberty Street.
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View of Warren, PA (1880)
Cityscapes
View of Warren, looking west from above Jackson Street, in 1880.
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View of Warren, PA (1883)
Hotels, Churches, Railroad shops and yards
Warren in 1883, looking east from Stone Hill Road. Across the center, left to right: Wetmore Lumber Company; Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley & Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania Railroad yards and depot; St. Joseph's Church; Pennsylvania Railroad depot; Revere House hotel; and Struthers Wells.
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View of Warren, PA (1885)
Building, Rivers, Trees
An 1885 view of Warren to the east, from above Fifth Avenue near Hazel Street.
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View of Warren, PA (1890)
Bird's-eye view prints, Buildings, Valleys
Birds-eye view of Warren, circa 1890.
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View of Warren, PA (1895)
Aerial views, Map making
A view east across Warren from above Fifth Avenue in 1895. The four derby-hatted men at left may be artists from the Fowler mapping company which produced a panoramic drawing of Warren that year.
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View of Warren, PA (1935)
Rivers, Aerial views
A 1935 aerial view of Warren from above the airport, looking east.
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View of Warren, PA (circa 1890)
Valleys, Railroads, Churches, Exhibition buildings
View south from Beech Street extension. At center is the Dunkirk & Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh Railroad freight and passenger station. At right are the St. Josephs Catholic Church, old fairgrounds and racetrack across river. 'Two Sisters' (Mile Island) in distance, about 1890.
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View of Warren, PA from Millrace 'Frog pond' (1910)
millrace, Schools, Churches, People
View in 1910 across the millrace at 'the frogpond' north to the intersection of Market Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. Right of center the two spires of Warren High School are visible and to their left, farther up Market Street, the steeple of the Bethlehem Covenant Church.
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View of Warren's South Side (1917)
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.
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View West from The Point (circa 1880)
Bakeries, Streets, Buildings
View west from The Point, Second and Pennsylvania (then Water Street) Avenues, about 1880. At left center is Archibald Tanner's 1816 store building, which survived until 1909.
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Warren (1864)
Buildings
A view of Warren, to the east, in 1864. The three churches, from left to right, are the First Baptist, the Evangelical (across Liberty Street), and center of the picture, the First Methodist, next to the Union School.
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