Description of the attraction
The United Bank building is located in Ivanovo on 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 the "Trading House of IA Sokolov with 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, the details are highlighted with whitewash. The building is made in the spirit of neoclassicism, characteristic of the urban development of Ivanovo at the beginning of the 20th century.
The building is rectangular in plan, has a slightly lowered risalit on the courtyard facade, shifted from the center, with a hip gable roof, which forms a gable from the eastern end. The house overlooks the Red Army Street with its long side. Its main façade is rather ornate. The central part is emphasized by a six-pillar portico with arches over the intercolumnia and a gable pediment towering over the edge of the roof. The horizontal divisions of the building are a high plinth, a simple interfloor belt and a wide simplified entablature. The rectangular windows on the first floor are topped with keystones. The symmetry of the facade is broken by the portal of the main entrance on the left, on the sides of which there are pilasters supporting an entablature with croutons.
The central portico is decorated with expressive graceful stucco molding depicting paired torches and garlands in the piers between floors and wreaths in the 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 castle 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 vestibule, where the stairs are located: 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 and 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 cellular 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, as it were, hangs 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.
