Shchudrovskaya Palatka, 17th-century brick landmark in Ivanovo, Russia

Shchudrovskaya Palatka is a single-storey whitewashed brick building with a steep dark roof in central Ivanovo, the city's oldest surviving brick structure. Its two arched windows and arched doorway have carved surrounds with keel-shaped tops, and a decorative band runs above the plinth. Inside are two rooms, a larger reception room and a smaller office.

Built at the end of the 17th century as an administrative office for the managers of the village of Ivanovo, owned by the Cherkasy princes. In the 19th century it passed to Osip Shchudrov, who added two floors for a textile-printing workshop. The extra floors were removed in the 1860s, and restoration from 1964 to 1988 returned the original roof form.

The Shchudrovskaya Palatka sits in the center of Ivanovo and now houses exhibitions of faience and porcelain sculptures made in the region. Visitors can see how local craft traditions developed through the objects on display inside.

The building is part of the Ivanovo Museum of Local History and is open during regular museum hours on August Street. It is worth checking ahead of time, as opening hours can change depending on the season.

The whitewash hides the red brick, which is why the small house resembles white-stone buildings of Pskov; local historian M. Yu. Timofeyev calls this surviving fragment of 17th-century Ivanovo architecture a remake by Hamburg standards. The two upper floors added for Osip Shchudrov's printed-cloth workshop were removed in the 1964–1988 restoration.