Description of the attraction
One of the historical architectural "highlights" of Dnepropetrovsk is the so-called "House of Khrennikov", built in 1913 at the corner of Yekaterininsky Avenue (now Karl Marx Avenue) and Pervozvanovskaya Street (now Korolenko Street) by the project of engineer Vladimir Khrennikov, who built a profitable a house on the site of your own home. The four-storey building combined two styles: Ukrainian Baroque and Art Nouveau, shocking contemporaries with the novelty of the solution and the scale of construction.
In the house of V. Khrennikov, a theater hall was opened, which housed the "Palace" cinema. Soon a number of shops began their work in the apartment building: N. N. Beketov, F. P. Dedikov, the shop of the shopping center "Shlapakovy and Co" and many others. After the revolution, the building housed the Art Museum and the Theater of the Young Spectator, and during the war - the officers' casino. In the 1930s, the city's Teacher's House was located in the former Khrennikov House.
During the occupation of the city, the Khrennikov House was burned down by the Nazis, but in the 50s it was restored. The subsequent restoration made the appearance of the house a little more modest, and the multi-tiered roofs of the house also disappeared. Also in the foundation of the building was found a silver mortgage board, this find was transferred to the historical Dnepropetrovsk Museum. In the post-war period, a restaurant and hotel "Ukraine" were located in the building. But even the accomplished innovations did not delete "Khrennikov's House" from the list of the main attractions of Dnepropetrovsk, arousing admiration of the artists who still paint it and sell paintings on the boulevard opposite.
In the 90s, with the participation of the Irish company "I. F. H." The Khrennikov House was fundamentally restored, after which the Grand Hotel Ukraine and the casino were opened.
