United Bank building description and photos - Russia - Golden Ring: Ivanovo (Topic)

United Bank building description and photos - Russia - Golden Ring: Ivanovo. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

Photo and description

The United Bank building is located in Ivanovo, Krasnaya Armii Street, 11. This brick one-story building was erected in 1883, its owner since 1903 was V.V. Popov. And in 1909, it housed the Ivanovo-Voznesensk branch of the United Bank. In 1913, the building was owned by I.A. Sokolov with his sons. ” By order of the new owners in 1914, the building was rebuilt by the architect A.F. Snurilov. As a result, one more floor was built on top.

The walls of the building are made of bricks, finished with a plaster layer, details highlighted with whitewash The building is made in the spirit of neoclassicism, characteristic of the urban development of Ivanovo in the early 20th century.

The building is rectangular in plan, has a slightly lowered facade on the courtyard facade, a risalit shifted from the center, with a hip gable roof, which forms a gable from the eastern end. The long side of the house faces the Red Army Street. Its main facade is rather ornate. The central part is emphasized by a six-pillar portico with arches over intercolumnia and a gable pediment towering over the edge of the roof. The horizontal divisions of the building are a high basement, a simple interfloor belt and a wide simplified entablature. The rectangular windows on the first floor are completed with key stones. The symmetry of the facade is violated by the portal of the main entrance on the left, on the sides of which there are pilasters supporting the entablature with crackers.

The central portico is decorated with expressive graceful stucco molding depicting paired torches and garlands in the walls between floors and wreaths in arches above the windows of the second floor. The rest of the facades are decorated in a somewhat simpler way: an interfloor belt with widths, similar to the main facade, shoulder blades in the corners, a crowning entablature, and key stones above the windows of the upper floor. A large arched window cuts through the blank eastern end of the building on the axis of the second floor. The main entrance to the courtyard risalit is made in the Art Nouveau style and is inscribed in a round arch with a sandrik above its half-frame and false windows-niches on both sides of the opening. A double-sided wooden paneled door has survived to this day.

Through the front entrance you can get to the lobby, where there are stairs: one leads upstairs - the front two-flight, the other - to the basement. On the right, a wide opening leads to a corridor, at the end of which was the bank manager's apartment. It was separated from the rest of the premises by a transverse wall. The main entrance to the apartment is from the projection, from the yard, where the second staircase to the basement is located.

Most of the second floor of the building was occupied by the operating room of the United Bank, which was connected to the central hall, as well as the rooms, by an arched opening. At the other end of the hall there is a similar arched opening that leads to the upper landing of the main staircase, where there is a large arched stained-glass window. The window is made of fine glass-covered octahedral colored honeycomb glass, reminiscent of a honeycomb. They are distinguished by the beauty of the stairs with metal railings. The upper landing of the main staircase is made in the form of a semicircular balcony, which seems to hang over the entrance to the first floor from the lobby. The pattern of the metal lattice is in the form of an ornament with curls and heart-shaped motifs.

Now the building of the former United Bank is occupied by the financial department of the Ivanovo region.

We also recommend reading Svyato-Vvedenskaya church description and photo - Russia - South: Yeisk

Topic: United Bank building description and photos - Russia - Golden Ring: Ivanovo.