Russell Warren (architect)

Russell Warren
Born 1783
Tiverton, Rhode Island
Died 1860
Providence, Rhode Island
Nationality United States
Occupation Architect
Practice Russell Warren; Warren, Tallman & Bucklin; Davis & Warren; R. Warren & Son
Buildings Linden Place; Westminster Arcade; Chatham County Courthouse; Manning Hall; New Bedford City Hall; Smithville Seminary; Longfield; Ocean House
Manning Hall, Brown University, 1834.

Russell Warren (1783–1860) was an American architect, best known for his work in the Greek Revival style. He practiced in Bristol and Providence.

Life and career

Warren was born in Tiverton, Rhode Island. He arrived in Bristol in 1800, and began to design and build unique Federal-style houses for the upper and middle class residents of that town.[1] In 1823, Warren left Providence and went south to Georgetown, South Carolina, where he became a building contractor.[2] In 1826 Warren moved back to Rhode Island, opening an architect's office in Providence.[3] In 1828, he collaborated with fellow Providence architect James C. Bucklin of Tallman & Bucklin in the design of the Westminster Arcade, designing the Westminster Street facade. He joined Tallman & Bucklin formally in 1830, the firm becoming Warren, Tallman & Bucklin. This firm was dissolved the following year, although they occasionally collaborated in later years.[4] Warren would become the foremost architect in southeastern New England, working as far away as Plymouth.

For a few months in 1835 and 1836, Warren worked with Alexander J. Davis in New York, who had recently left his partnership with Ithiel Town. The Congregational Church in New Bedford was conceived under Davis at this time, but was built by Warren after he had returned to Providence.

Although he had never been to Greece, Warren was a master of Greek architectural styles.[5] In 1838, he designed a set of three Greek Revival houses within 50 feet of each other on Hope Street in Bristol. Each house represented one of the different Greek styles: an Ionic house for future governor Francis M. Dimond, a Corinthian house for Captain Josiah Talbot, and a Doric house for Captain John Fletcher.[5] The latter is now demolished.[5]

Warren continued in solo practice until 1846, when he took his son Osborn Warren as partner. The new firm was known as Russell Warren & Son, and lasted for two years, when Russell and Osborn are listed separately in the directory.[6] From then until his death, Warren practiced independently. His commissions waned in the 1850s, owing to the emergence of other architects such as Thomas A. Tefft and Alpheus C. Morse.

Warren died in 1860.

In 1842, at the dedication at New Bedford of Warren's new Parker House, the president of the corporation said of Warren and Providence, "Her architects have made it a “City of Palaces”; she has furnished us with hosts who will give to the world a stranger’s welcome."[7]

Architectural works

Russell Warren, 1800–1823 and 1826–1830

Warren, Tallman & Bucklin, 1830–1831

Russell Warren, 1831–1835

Davis & Warren, 1835–1836

Russell Warren, 1836–1845

Russell Warren & Son, 1846–1848

Russell Warren, 1849–1860

Attributed to Warren

Hey-Bonnie Hall, Bristol, 1808. 
Linden Place, Bristol, 1810. 
Russell Warren House, Bristol, 1810. 
Westminster Arcade, Providence. 1828. 
Joseph Grinnell House, New Bedford, 1830. 
Mechanics' and Merchants' Banks Building, New Bedford, 1831. 
Zion Episcopal Church, Newport, 1834. 
Levi H. Gale House, Newport, 1835. 
Dutch Reformed Church, Newburgh, 1835. 
White Hall, Bristol College, 1835. 
First Congregational Church, New Bedford, 1836. 
Francis M. Dimond House, Bristol. 1838. 
Edwin L. Kerrison House, Charleston, 1838. 
New Bedford City Hall, New Bedford, 1839. 
Smithville Seminary, North Scituate, 1839. 
Mark Anthony DeWolf House, Bristol, 1840. 
Longfield, Bristol, 1848. 
Joseph Durfee House, Fall River, 1843. 
William Lindsey House, Fall River, 1844. 
Ocean House, Newport, 1846. 
  1. ↑ Rhode Island: A Guide to the Smallest State. 1937.
  2. ↑ Lewis, Catherine H. Horry County, South Carolina, 1730-1993. 1998.
  3. ↑ "Warren, Russell, 1783-1860". http://www.riheritagehalloffame.org/. n.d. Web.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Jordy, William H. and Christopher P. Monkhouse. Buildings on Paper: Rhode Island Architectural Drawings, 1825-1945. 1982.
  5. 1 2 3 Zipf, Catherine (25 May 2016). "Bristol's Greek Revival houses". The Providence Journal. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
  6. ↑ New-England Mercantile Union Business Directory. 1849.
  7. 1 2 Medeiros, Peggy. "A Lost Warren Building?". http://blogs.southcoasttoday.com/. 5 Sept. 2014. Web.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Historic and Architectural Resources of Bristol, Rhode Island. 1990.
  9. ↑ "DeWolf-Middleton House, Poppasquash Road, Bristol, Bristol County, RI". http://www.loc.gov/. n.d. Web.
  10. 1 2 3 4 Simpson, Richard V. Historic Bristol: Tales from an Old Rhode Island Seaport. 2008.
  11. 1 2 3 4 Woodward, Wm. McKenzie. Providence: A Citywide Survey of Historic Resources. 1986.
  12. ↑ "The New Bedford Superior Court House". http://www.bostonreporters.com/. n.d. Web.
  13. ↑ The Exercises at the Semi-Centennial Anniversary of the Westminster Congregational Society. 1878.
  14. ↑ "University of Rhode Island Library: Special Collections and Archives: Guide to the Records of St. Mark's Episcopal Church 1828-2010". http://www.uri.edu/. n.d. Web.
  15. 1 2 "County Street Walking Tour". http://www.nbpreservationsociety.org/. 2012. Web.
  16. ↑ Linley, John. The Georgia Catalog: A Guide to the Architecture of the State. 1982.
  17. ↑ Augusta Herald 9 June 1830.
  18. ↑ Caldwell, Wilber W. The Courthouse and the Depot: The Architecture of Hope in an Age of Despair. 2001.
  19. 1 2 3 4 Silvia, Joe. "The Grand Designs of Russell Warren; New Bedford Architecture". http://www.newbedfordguide.com/. 16 April 2013. Web.
  20. ↑ "Tour Our Windows". http://www.gracechurchprovidence.org/. n.d. Web.
  21. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yarnall, James L. Newport Through its Architecture. 2005.
  22. 1 2 Telley, Jesse T. History of the Churches of New Bedford. 1869.
  23. ↑ Tildesley, Delbert W. Saint Michael's Church in Bristol, R.I., 1718-1983. 1989.
  24. ↑ Devin, Nancy J. and Richard V. Simpson. Images of America: Portsmouth, Rhode Island. 2008.
  25. ↑ Preface to the Catalogue of the Library of Brown University 1843.
  26. 1 2 3 Jordy, William H. Buildings of Rhode Island. 2004.
  27. 1 2 Warren, Rhode Island: Statewide Preservation Report B-W-1. 1975.
  28. ↑ "About". http://gracechurchnb.org/. n.d. Web.
  29. 1 2 Truettner, Julia M. Aspirations for Excellence: Alexander Jackson Davis and the First Campus Plan for the University of Michigan, 1838. 2002.
  30. ↑ McInnis, Maurie D. The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston. 2005.
  31. ↑ State Arsenal NRHP Nomination. 1970.
  32. ↑ "Mark Anthony DeWolf House, Poppasquash Neck, Bristol, Bristol County, RI". http://www.loc.gov/. n.d. Web.
  33. ↑ Cady, John Hutchins. The Civic and Architectural Development of Providence, 1636-1950. 1957.
  34. ↑ http://bristolribedandbreakfast.com/
  35. ↑ Anger, Jenny. "The Rise of the Professional Architect". Thomas Alexander Tefft: American Architecture in Transition, 1845-1860. Ed. Kathleen A. Curran. Providence, RI: Brown University, 1988.
  36. ↑ Greene, Welcome Arnold. The Providence Plantations for 250 Years. Providence: J. A. & R. A. Reid, 1886.
  37. ↑ Hoffman, Charles and Tess. North by South: The Two Lives of Richard James Arnold. 1988.
  38. ↑ Historic and Architectural Resources of Tiverton, Rhode Island: A Preliminary Report. 1983.
  39. ↑ Historic and Architectural Resources of West Warwick, Rhode Island: A Preliminary Report. 1987.
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