Trousdale’s sister, Carolyn Wenglar, who took over ownership of the bar upon Trousedale’s passing, moved the business later that year to the current Market Square Park location, complete with the bar’s signature neon signage still seen today. Before Warren’s Inn moved in, the Houston dive bar’s current home served as past bars and restaurants over the year and is said to have at one time housed a gentleman’s establishment that could be the source of the interior gazebo that still commands one wall of the Warren’s Inn space.
Wenglar still owns and operates Warren’s Inn in addition to nearby, reportedly haunted Houston dive bar La Carafe. Little has changed over the years inside Warren’s Inn, the decorations both inside and out hardly touched over the decades by Wenglar and her staff. Most of the key features that can be seen within the current incarnation of Warren’s Inn actually date back to its original location, most of the fixtures part of the post-demolition move.
The Warren’s Inn signature feature is no doubt the twisted neon above the front door that depicts the name of the bar on either side of a large illuminated sign reading “Warren’s.” The signage lines a curved, metal awning that sits above the front door, additional small signs on either side of the door again proclaiming, you guessed it, the name of the bar.