Background
Russell Warren was born in 1792 in Tiverton, Rhode Island, United States.
Russell Warren was born in 1792 in Tiverton, Rhode Island, United States.
A notable examples of his work: The DeWolf olt house (1815): the DeWolf-Middleton residence on Poppasquash Road
known as "Hey Bonnie Hall," a wooden two-story mansion of the early Republican style; and the Mark Anthony DeWolf house, built about thirty years later, in 1840, an imposing structure with a six-column Corinthian portico crowned with a pediment.
In a later period Mr. Warren was the architect of several outstanding public buildings in Providence, R. I., mainly in association with James C. Bucklin. Among these was the Arcade Building, dating from 1822, one of the finest structures in the city when erected, and in constant use since that time as a shopping center. Warren & Bucklin also designed the Westminister Congregational Church (1829), a distinguished edifice in the Greek Revival style (no longer standing), St. Patricks Church, and the Bank of Commerce, long since demolished. However, the Providence Athenaeum, sometimes ascribed to Mr. Warren, was one of William Strickland's works.
Russell Warren was also well known in Massachusetts, adding to his renown as a designer in the Greek Revival style following the erection of public and residential buildings in Fall River and New Bedford. Noted among his works there was a stone mansion for John Avery Bennett (1834), one of the show places of New Bedford, said to have cost a hundred thousand dollars, the Railroad Station, and the large granite City Hall (later occupied as the Public Library).