Description of the attraction
One of the many attractions of the city of Ivanovo is a residential brick mansion named after its owner N. M. Gandurin. This mansion was built on a corner plot, which is completely surrounded on all sides by a solid fence. Its construction took place in 1898. It is believed that the architect P. G. Begen. The famous mansion belonged to the manufacturer Gandurin. The house was built in the traditional Russian style, which was typical for the architecture of the city of the past.
The mansion is a two-storey building, which in the plan is almost square and covered with a pitched roof. The facades, which are laid out in the front masonry, differed somewhat in their structural component, but compositionally they were completely equivalent and symmetrical, excluding the courtyard facade. Their beauty lies in the varied rearrangement of all window openings, as well as individual and characteristic expressiveness for each floor and facade, while observing the classical parameters of symmetry. Flexible wide blades are located in the corners, while the blades clearly distinguish the main components of street facades. At a pair of ends of the facades, in the area of uniaxial projections, there are entrances, for example, on the side one - as a porch equipped with egg-boxes under a courtyard canopy, which is supported by consoles made of metal.
The main decor of the facade consists of an interfloor wide belt, archivolts of window openings (arched at the top and onion at the bottom), a horizontal belt at the same level with imposts, diamond-shaped and rectangular panels, a frieze from an elegant wide cornice equipped with towns and a curb, as well as a frieze, in the composition which includes only the teeth. It is worth noting that the main decorative component is created by completing the building on the site, where an integral "town" is formed, consisting of hipped-roof towers exposed at the corners of the risalits and above the shoulder blades. On the central front axes there are unique architectural elements of the type of high attics, decorated with small turrets and openings. The listed parts are connected using an openwork lattice.
As for the floor plans, they are similar in the main divisions. On the side façade, there is an entrance that leads into a rectangular hall with a large cast-iron staircase leading to the upper floor. From the yard there is an entrance connected to the service room by a cast-iron staircase. The existing rooms face the street and are connected by a rounded suite. There is also a spacious hall with windows facing directly onto the main façade. The ceremonial decoration of this hall, which is divided into two parts by means of a powerful portal with a cornice, pilasters and stucco molding, has reached our time. An important part of the house is the staircase hall with high pilasters and graceful panels on the ceiling and wall panels.
From the side of the streets, the mansion is surrounded by a fence built on a brick base and flywheels, as well as with a metal pitched covering, on the surface of which thin pillars made of metal are fixed. In the interval between the pillars, there is an openwork transparent lattice consisting of rings, spears and volutes. The fence continues with a gate leading to the main facade - here it is more deaf and unapproachable, at the same time it is equipped with spinning bars and stone pillars with a beautiful lattice in the upper part of the wall. It should be noted that on both opposite sides of the gate there are small sections of the fence, equipped with decorative imitation of openings made in the form of arches.
Beginning in the summer of 1918, the executive provincial committee was located in the mansion, chaired by M. V. Frunze. After some time, the building housed the city committee of the CPSU, but in the 1970s it moved to another building, and the propaganda House of Excellence, operating under the regional committee of the CPSU, was located in the Gandurin house.
The Leninsky District Court has been operating here since the mid-1990s.
