The Lavrov Residential House is a historic building of the 19th–20th centuries located at 26 Korolenko Street, Nizhny Novgorod. In March 2020 the building was granted the status of a cultural heritage site (OKN) of regional significance, joining a group of more than 20 buildings in the city's historic center that were designated as monuments at the same time.[1]

Protected Status

The OKN status was established by Orders No. 110, No. 111, and No. 129 of March 13 and 23, 2020, issued by the State Protection Department for Cultural Heritage Sites of Nizhny Novgorod Region.[1] A historical and architectural expert assessment report has been prepared for the building.[1]

The protected status prohibits demolition of the building, laying of utilities and engineering networks near the structure and along its façade, and the placement of advertising structures. Adaptation for modern use is permitted only if it does not harm the monument.[1]

Context and Neighboring Sites

Lavrov House is located in the area known as "Historic Nizhny Novgorod".[1] In March 2020, the buildings on Korolenko, Novaya, Slavyanskaya, and Studenaya Streets received the status of a regional-significance cultural heritage site (OKN) at the same time as this one.[1] The neighboring properties on Korolenko Street included in the same list are: I. F. Eglit Residential House (no. 15), Bibikhin Residential House (no. 16), the Shchelukhina residential house (no. 17), the Skvortsova residential house (no. 18), as well as the residential buildings at nos. 30 and 40.[1]

The inclusion of Lavrov House in the OKN list ruled out its demolition: a number of neighboring buildings on Korolenko Street had previously been under threat of demolition under an agreement on the development of built-up areas — OOO Fregat intended to build a hotel and a parking lot in their place.[1]

Lavrov residential house is the main house and the only surviving structure of an urban estate that took shape in the mid-19th century. In 1846, the owner of the plot, collegiate secretary Nikolay Lavrov, petitioned the city administration for permission to build a two-story semi-masonry house with a mezzanine and two single-story wooden outbuildings; the estate was designed in the Late Classical style with a symmetrical composition, and all the buildings faced the red line of Kanatnaya Street. The main house, rectangular in plan, had seven bays of openings on its main facade and was crowned with a gable roof with a mezzanine; the decoration of the first floor included rustication in the piers between square windows, while the second floor was adorned with corner pilasters, window surrounds with straight profiled pediments, and rectangular panels beneath the windows.

During a remodeling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the mezzanine was dismantled and replaced with a small dormer window, vestibules were added at both ends, and a firewall was added on the south side; the facades received new decoration, yet the house preserved the basis of its original mid-19th-century layout. In the 2010s, the building was renovated, with a number of facade decorative elements replaced and lost details restored.[4][4][4][4][4]

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  1. GIPERNN — More than 20 buildings in downtown Nizhny Novgorod recognized as cultural heritage sites (archive)
  2. Nizhegorodskaya Pravda — Secrets of the Old Jomini Estate (archive)
  3. web.archive.org — Cultural Heritage of Russia/Nizhny Novgorod Region/Nizhny Novgorod (right bank, part 2) — Vikigid Wikivoyage travel guide (archive)