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23 National Parkard Museum AVENUE MAHONING A BELMONT 22 Packard Park Moulton House 21 Twin Maples Packard Music Hall VENUE Old Brick (1mile) School 20 Gillmer House SCHOOL STREET PROSPECT Miller House A V ENUE Charles Archer House C. C. Adams House WASHINGTON STREET Vautrot-Riffle Home Edward S. Kneeland Home Lucille Apartments Indicates the site of a building 18 that is no longer standing. Woods-McCombs House This map is not drawn to scale. 19 Patch-Abell Home Pioneer Cemetery MONROE STREET Warren-Trumbull County Public Library Hyde Residence 17 Sutliff Museum 16 John Stark Edwards House Wolcott-Marvin PERKINS DRIVE Cottage George Kneeland House Perkins Circle Apartments H NOR 15 Harriet Taylor Upton House A Old Central Park R M TH D. J. Adams House O 14 N Law Library On MAHONING P S e A Perkins Mansion T W RK a 10 Peter L. Webb House R y E E A T 11 V A ENUE Women’s Park V Asael Adams House ENUE “MILLIONAIRE’S ROW” Owen D. Morgan House N 11 12 9 PERKINSCarriage DRIVE House Connecticut Land Company Office 7 First RKING PA 8 Presbyterian Church 13 Kinsman House Perkins Park ay W One 6 One 3 Post Office W 5 Packard ay Mansion P Warren Community King-Smith ARKIN Amphitheatre G River 4 HIGH STREET walk Monument Park & Trumbull County Promenade Veterans’ Memorial MAHONING RIVER 1 Trumbull County Courthouse Log Cabin 2 Warren Courthouse Square walk River Monument Park WEST MARKET STREET Although he didn’t live to see his dream realized, his Western Reserve Veterans’ Memorial Association and community efforts helped complete the goal. The Trumbull County Veterans Memorial was dedi- cated in 2008 and includes a towering World War II statue and a Wall of Honor, inscribed with the names of veterans. It sits in Monument Park, which runs 1 along the east bank of the Mahoning River toward 4 West Market Street. The Park also includes the famous 321 Mahoning Ave. NW, Warren, OH 44483 Scopes Monkey Trial and the Leopold and Loeb reconstructed log cabin, which was built on the site of Warren’s rst schoolhouse. As you stroll along Historic Mahoning Avenue, trial, which was the basis for the movie Murder by imagine yourself back in the Victorian era when Numbers, defended many cases here. this area was quite fashionable and filled with a 5 King-Smith Home 241 Mahoning Avenue NW mixture of shops and homes. 2 Warren Courthouse Square High Street and West Market Street Judge Leicester King was a pillar of Warren, first as a judge, then as a senator and candidate for governor. This is where the local affluent - the “Who’s Who” When Ephraim Quinby founded Warren in 1801, He also actively fought against slavery, acting as a of American industry, commerce and politics - built he based the design of this area on the bustling conductor on the Underground Railroad. His house and lived in stately homes and mansions that lined town squares he’d seen in Connecticut: a landmark on the banks of the Mahoning River provided a the streets during the mid-to-late 1800s. Recog- in the center, surrounded by shops and restaurants, perfect hiding place. A fire destroyed the building in nized as national treasures, many of these struc- providing a gathering place for townspeople. Over the 1970s, but a historical plaque marks the spot tures have been restored to their original grandeur. two hundred years later, Courthouse Square is still where it once stood. Today they are home to business, museums, offices the heart of the community, hosting festivals and and private residences. providing a historic backdrop for new downtown businesses. You can see similar examples in nearby 6 Packard Mansion Site 210 High Street NW In the early days of Trumbull County, Mahoning Kinsman, Hartford, North Bloomfield, and more. The YMCA occupies this space today, but it was once Avenue was also known as the Warren-Ashtabula home to the grandest mansion in Trumbull County: Turnpike, which played a significant role in the 3 Post Office the house of Warren Packard and his family, includ- local Underground Railroad movement. We hope 201 High Street ing famous sons J.W. and W.D. The brothers went on you enjoy your tour of Millionaires Row. Open 8:30 AM - 5 PM Mon. - Fri. 9 AM - 1 PM Sat. Did you know that the Warren post office has been to found the Packard 6 around since the Great Depression? During this Electric and Packard 1 Trumbull County Courthouse tough time for Americans, President Theodore Motor Car Companies 161 High Street NW Roosevelt enacted the New Deal to stimulate the provide philanthropic Open 9 AM - 5 PM, Monday - Friday economy. One of its programs was the Works Prog- support of Packard After the previous two burned down, this court- ress Administration, which employed millions to Park, Music Hall, and house was built in 1895 with Amherst sandstone construct buildings and roads--including this post more. sawed to specification in the square outside. An office and the mural inside. $8.4 million renovation completed in 1995--exact- 5 ly a century after its construction--helped preserve Photo credit: 4 The Trumbull County Veterans Memorial Trumbull County the artistic building. Visitors can go inside--keep an West Market Street and Mahoning Avenue NW Historical Society eye out for the intricate woodwork, marble mosaic Vietnam veteran Marine 1st Lt. William Muter had a flooring, and Renaissance style artwork. It is one of dream: he wanted to honor the sacrifice of Trum- the oldest judicial buildings in Ohio still in opera- bull County veterans who served their country. tion today. Lawyer Clarence Darrow, famous for the 7 First Presbyterian Church Women’s Park Perkins Park 256 Mahoning Avenue NW Mahoning Avenue between the Connecticut Land Perkins Park, originally Call ahead for guided tours Title Office and City Hall known as Perkins Flats, This has been the site of a church congregation since Women’s Park, located between the Kinsman has been a favorite for 1803, when Reverend Joseph Badger journeyed House and City Hall, is a beautifully landscaped recreation the City of from Connecticut to the Western Reserve as a tribute. It features a monument to “every woman”, a Warren bought the land missionary, and it has been an important part of the stone bridge over a stream, and a special courtyard for public use in 1931. community ever since. Before TV and social media, dedicated to the pioneer women of the Western The baseball fields have hosted the ringing of its bell signaled important events and Reserve. You can even purchase an inscribed brick games since 1932, and the park continues to devel- emergencies, and it served as a “station” on the to honor a special woman in your life and help fund op with the 2013 addition of a volleyball court. Underground Railroad, where abolitionists helped the garden’s upkeep. Visitors can also explore an English-style rose runaway slaves on their journey to Canada. garden near the park’s entrance. Connecticut Land Title Office 8 Kinsman House 321 Mahoning Avenue NW Perkins Mansion / City Hall 303 Mahoning Avenue NW Open 9 AM - 5 PM, Monday - Friday 391 Mahoning Avenue NW Open 2 PM - 5 PM, first Sunday of every month, or by Did you know that originally, the entire Connecti- Open 9 AM - 5 PM, Monday - Friday appointment. cut Western Reserve was known as Trumbull It’s hard to imagine what it would be like to have This Greek Revival house has had many uses over the County? This building served as the headquarters even one US president at your home--but over the years. First, in 1832, General Simon Perkins built it as of the Connecticut Land Company, where the land years, this Victorian Italianate house hosted five! Its a wedding gift for his daughter and her new of the Western Reserve was split and sold. People owner, Henry Bishop Perkins, was a community husband. Later, its many rooms were used to hold like John Kinsman, Thaddeus Leavitt, and Joseph leader when Warren was still part of the Western classes for the Dana School of Music. Now, the Howland purchased tracts here that eventually Reserve and his visitors included Presidents Grant, Warren Heritage Center uses it as a place to collect, developed into the many towns and townships in Garfield, Hayes, Harrison, and McKinley. The family preserve, and interpret artifacts from the city’s history Trumbull County. It now is the home of the Trum- lived there until 1934, when the building converted and educate the public. bull County Tourism Bureau. to Warren’s City Hall. The property also has a historic carriage house and law library. 9 Owen D. Morgan House 328 Mahoning Avenue NW Harriet Taylor Upton House Built in 1894, this Victorian home features the Queen 380 Mahoning Avenue NW Anne style and includes a picturesque use of an Open 2 PM - 5 PM, first Sunday of each month April engaged tower with recessed balconies. This house - November, or by appointment. is being renovated and restored for the Trumbull Women’s suffrage activists like Susan B. Anthony and County Historical Society. Elizabeth Cady Stanton are famous, but just as import- ant is Warren’s own Harriet Taylor Upton, who lived in Peter L. Webb House this house for many years. She served as treasurer of 352 Mahoning Avenue NW - Private residence the National American Woman Suffrage Association Peter and Marie Webb constructed this house in for sixteen years and even brought its headquarters 1892. While not much is known about their activity to Warren! Later, she became the first woman when they lived there, owners years later found a vice-chair of the National Republican Executive Com- clue: in 1991, while doing maintenance under the mittee and advocated for child labor laws and women basement stairs, they found an old case of alcohol in government.