Emlenton
Franklin
Oil City
Tionesta
Titusville
Pleasantville
Meadville
Tidioute
Endeavor
Warren
Sheffield
Bradford
Smethport
Ridgway

Styles

Adam
Greek Revival
Classical Revival
Gothic Revival
Italianate
Second Empire
Stick
Queen Anne
Shingle
Colonial Revival
Neoclassical
Tudor
English Cottage

WARREN

The Conewango Creek comes south from New York to join with the Allegheny River where the site of Warren was reserved as a town by act of Commonwealth Commissioners in 1795.  It remained a town in name only for over a decade.  Eventually, both settlers and commerce arrived.  In 1819, Warren became the seat of government for the County. The natural center of the region’s lumber economy, Warren was used as an early river port for rafts and boats of all descriptions. Steamboats made the difficult trip upriver from Pittsburgh starting as early as 1830.  Wealthy lumbermen with operations all over the northern Pennsylvania forests made not only their homes in Warren, but established their banking institutions in the town.  The railroad arrived in 1859 giving Warren rail access to not only Erie but the Atlantic Coast to the east and Cleveland and Chicago to the west.  The financial resources of the community were aggressively invested in the nearby oil fields during the great days of the Pennsylvania oil excitement and just added to the aggregate wealth of the town.  In the late nineteenth century, some thirteen crude oil refineries were located within six miles of Warren.

Though many fine structures from Warren’s Victorian period have been taken down, the place was blessed with so much, a visitor can be overwhelmed trying to see all that has survived.  Situated as it is along the splendidly picturesque Allegheny, Warren clearly is one of the finest surviving Victorian communities in America. 
 

	301 Market Street, Warren, Pennsylvania

The Falconer House at 301 Market Street is an example of the many Italianates constructed in Warren.  The low pitch of the roof, the substantially extended eaves accentuated with brackets, the central cupola, the grouping of windows with arched tops in the cupola, the overhead arch of the entrance and the tall windows in the facades are all Italianate influences of the time.  The house was built in 1866 by Patrick Falconer who had come to Warren County from Scotland in 1836 at the age of twenty.  He was known as a successful farmer and prominent businessman.
 
 

	308 Market Street, Warren, Pennsylvania

A Second Empire was built at 308 Market Street in 1868 by Elial Valentine.  The Valentine House is a simple rectangular volume with one-story bays on each side.  A Mansard roof, representative of the style, tops the mass.  Dormers with pairs of arched windows and a baroque roundel window are part of the roof details.  The paired and arched windows in the facades, the second floor balcony and the simple entrance are appropriate for a Second Empire.