Warren

Warren is a city in Macomb County, Michigan, United States, on the northern border of Detroit. It grew from a carriage stop into a city of car plants and design studios in the middle of the 20th century.

Beebe's Corners, the first settlement, began in 1830 on the road between Detroit and Utica, with a mill, a tavern and a trading post. Warren Township, organized later in the decade, took its name from Abel Warren, a Methodist preacher who rode through the area to baptize and marry its families. Farms covered the township until Chrysler opened its truck plant there in the late 1930s and suburban houses followed. The village, most of the township and Van Dyke joined in 1957 to form the present city.

The General Motors Technical Center, built between the late 1940s and the mid-1950s, is where the company designs and tests its cars. Stellantis builds Jeep Wagoneer sport utility vehicles at the Warren Truck Assembly plant, the successor of the Chrysler factory of the 1930s.

Eero Saarinen designed the Technical Center as a campus of low glass and steel buildings around a lake, with a silver water tower and a domed auditorium for showing new models, and it is a National Historic Landmark. The Warren Symphony Orchestra gives a season of concerts in the city. Halmich Park, along the Red Run, has sports fields and a picnic area. John Smoltz, the baseball pitcher in the Hall of Fame, was born in Warren, and Eminem went to high school in the city.