QR-35 - A Habitable House: 18 Maltseva St.

Object	A Habitable House: 18 Maltseva St.
Dating	the second half of the 19th century.
Type	A monument of architecture.
Status	a cultural heritage site of federal importance.
Address	18 Maltseva St., Vologda, Russia.
A brief description	The structure is a two-story wooden house located within the urban estate of Druzhinin. The house itself was originally built as a Servants’ quarters within the Druzhinin complex. The main house, together with the rest of the estate, comprises a relatively considerable portion of the street.
Condition	satisfactory.
Contemporary use	presently, the Vologda City Commission of Recreation and Entertainment is located within the house.
History Mikhail Alexeyevich Druzhinin, the Federal Urban Estate Commissioner - (a position that existed in Tsarist Russia) - had the house built as a residence for servants of the estate. The main house of the Druzhinin estate is located nearby at 16 Maltseva Street. The owner of the estate (from January 1867 to March 1878) was the Provincial Marshal of Nobility of the city of Vologda. In 1870 he also happened to become the first chairman of the Provincial Zemstvo (a form of local government in late pre-revolutionary Russia). Subsequently, the building housed a children’s art school for an extended period of time.
Architectural description The house is a modestly decorated, two-story structure sheathed with wooden panels. Two broad profiled parapets (partitions) run across the front façade which serves to accentuate the ornate windowsills. The front face of the main façade is adorned with alcove windowsills topped with fanned transom windows. It has been assumed that there was, initially, on the corner of the house, a balcony sitting directly over a porch which extended onto the street corner. Presently, there is an elegant triple window at the spot where the old balcony may have once stood. The central and crowning component of the tri-piece window was likely used originally as a door. The windows located on the sides of the house are of a simple rectangular shape. The rear entrance, adjoined to the rear façade of the house, contains (an attached) annex which faces a courtyard. The house is arrayed with dormer windows and topped with a hinged roof.
Restoration There was, apparently, a staircase in the annex which attached to and followed the “L” shaped patterning of the main house. The balcony of the main façade had, over time, begun to fade considerably, to the point that it was finally lost. At the present time, a plan for a substantial renovation of the house has been made. An additional entrance and an extended porch have been added to the southwestern façade of the house. In addition, there were extensive repairs made to the house throughout the 1980’s. Text by O.A. Plekh, M.V. Vasiliyeva. Translated Natalia Maroon, Bradley Maroon.
Information about the partner of the project In 2013, through the funding of our project partner, the communications and mobile operator Tele2, an information plate containing a QR-code was installed on the house.