A black and white photo postcard showing "The Boulevard, Warren, Ariz." Photograph is from circa 1918. There are cars on the street and a fire plug on the corner. View is looking east. Photo taken on Congdon Avenue, near Hovland Avenue before Vista Park. The postcard is unused, and the publisher is unknown. Vlasta Mihelich Collection.

Warren, named after the prospector George Warren, is the first planned suburb in Arizona and was built as part of the city beautiful movement with Vista park for recreation and the modern amenities of water, sewer, and gas lines. The city beautiful movement began to fight back against the overcrowded and unsanitary conditions plaguing America’s cities during a period of rapid industrial growth. Warren was built to alleviate the overcrowding in Bisbee and to provide miners and their families with better accommodations and a space free from the constant smell and noise of the mining operations in Bisbee at the time. Warren was designed and planned in a fan shape to take advantage of the landscape’s natural drainage. Ground water pumped from the mines in the hunt for ore was utilized to water the trees, shrubs and other greenery of Warren. Walter Douglas built a stately home the Loma Linda still rests at the base of the Number Seven Dump.

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