Apartment house of Chirikov, Revenue house on Budenovsky Avenue in Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
The Chirikov House is a five-storey brick building with a plastered facade, a multi-pitched roof, and two rectangular bay windows joined on the top floor by a massive arch topped with a decorative arcade above the cornice. Its facade also has outer three-tiered curved bay windows with arched triple windows, and medallions and emblems above the paired windows.
The building was constructed in 1913 from designs by architect Leonid Eberg for a wealthy factory owner. During the Russian Civil War years that followed, it was converted to serve as a hospital.
The building's name comes from Vladimir Kirillovich Chirikov, owner of a confectionery factory and chairman of the city's Mutual Credit Society, who commissioned it as a revenue house. Its ground floor held shops, while upper floors offered apartments of four to seven rooms; a lift connected the basement to a roof garden with a restaurant. A 1913 newspaper called it one of Rostov's most outstanding buildings in size and architecture.
The building sits on Budenovsky Avenue in a central location and is easily reached by public transportation. Note that it currently serves as an administrative building and can only be viewed from the outside.
The owner insisted on adding two columns to the facade despite the architect's disagreement with this choice. This modification altered the original design and shows how personal taste and wealth sometimes outweighed the artist's vision.
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