Warren Library Association - Historic Photographs

Warren and Jamestown Street Railway baggage car #50 on Main Street in Russell, 1906. Joe Chase is walking east across the street and beyond him are both a wagon team and an early highwheeled auto.

Warren Armory, 330 Hickory Street, about 1925. First used in 1910, it was for many years the home of Company I, 16th Regiment, NGP. In 2004 it is in active use as the Warren Area Student Union. The church at right, facing Liberty Street, behind the Struthers building, was the First Evangelical, soon (at this time) to be replaced by a building for the Parvin Motorcar Company.

Warren County courthouse, jail, and Sheriff's residence, Market Street and Fourth Avenue, soon after construction. Photo taken in 1877 or slightly later.

Original main building of the Warren Emergency Hospital on the south side ca 1905.

Part of Warren Mills and buildings adjoining on the west ca 1875. South side of Pennsylvania Avenue west of Liberty Street. Burned 1881. (Note: Irregularity at left).

Liberty Street entrance to Warren Post Office in the Struthers building, March 1, 1905. Left to right: Mason R. Emery, Frederick Gutzler, William Cameron, Thomas W. Weakley, Sam Prescott, George Pierce, and John Albrecht. The interior space is now (2004) occupied by Ring-Around-A-Rosy flower and gift shop.

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.

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.

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.

Warren-Sheffield streetcar exiting the Glade bridge en route to the Sheffield terminus ca 1915.

A Warren-Sheffield streetcar on the Glade bridge, ca 1905. This line operated from 1903 to 1928.

The Warren-Sheffield streetcar overhead is the centerpiece in this ca 1908 view north across the Allegheny River. Framing the bridge are the Warren tannery, left, and the Allegheny Hotel. Necolai K. Wendelboe Sr. stands on the tracks.