Architect's house

The architect's house is located in the building of a former merchant mansion, built in 1911-1912. in one of the best districts of the city on the street that was formerly called Sadovo-Kulikovskaya, and in the 1930s it was renamed into st. Darwin. The dynasty of the Ryzhov merchants occupied an important place in the life of Kharkov for a century. In the book by DI Bagaley and DP Miller "The history of the city of Kharkov for 250 years of its existence" the names of the Ryzhovs are mentioned 54 times.

The design and construction supervision was entrusted to the experienced architect V.V. Velichko, who lived on the same street in his own house and was associated with the Ryzhovs through the construction of the St. Petersburg International Bank building. The construction of the mansion was completed in 1912 and, as the old-timers said, the new home was celebrated with a magnificent ball on the occasion of the birthday of P.P. Ryzhov's wife, Valeria Alexandrovna Ryzhova, in whose name he recorded the house as a birthday present.