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English: The Struthers Library Theatre, 304 West 3rd Avenue (corner Liberty Street), Warren, Pennsylvania, as seen in September 2021. Built in 1883 from designs by an unknown architect (a 1919 renovation was handled by the New York form of Wetmore & Warren), the Struthers Library presents an unusual interpretation of the Italianate style with obvious influences from the French Second Empire (evident particularly on the roof and in the prominent corner tower, both adorned with mansards) and the up-and-coming Italian Renaissance Revival (the layered façade with windows articulated differently on each story - topped with segmental arches on the ground floor, round arches on the second and flat-topped on the third, with floors separated by projecting stone string courses underlain by layers of corbelled brick). Prominent as well are the ornamental stone balconet adorning the central second-floor window above the marquee, and the corbel tables along the roofline. The building was gifted to the city by arguably its most prominent citizen of the day, Thomas Struthers, and functioned as a civic and cultural center for the town in a variety of simultaneous ways: the ground floor held retail storefronts facing the street and a theater and opera house in back, the second story was the town's public library, and the third contained meeting space that, among other uses, served as the local Masonic Temple. Today it's used exclusively as a theater, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places twice: in its own right in 1975, and as a contributing property to the Warren Historic District in 1999.