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Mishin's Income House

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Originally, the territory on which the house stands belonged to the church properties of St. Euplas Church, which was once located across the street. In 1840, the plot was purchased by the Voeykov family, who built a two-story stone house along the street's red line.

In 1853, the building was bought by the Old Believer merchant A.S. Tryndin, who opened a store for optical and geodetic instruments. His son Ivan continued the business but closed the firm in 1869 and sold the house to his father-in-law, textile manufacturer and Old Believer merchant I.P. Butikov. Butikov extensively reconstructed the building, added a floor, and opened a textile store. In 1888, the house passed to Butikov's daughter, who rented it out to various engineering firms and for furnished rooms.

In 1902, the new owner became merchant M.I. Mishin, owner of the trading house "Ivan Mishin and Sons." Architect I.T. Baryutin reconstructed the building again, preserving the old walls and erecting a four-story structure. The street facade is adorned with floral compositions, ribbons, scrolls, and cartouches. On the top floor, there are arched double windows framed by sculptural female half-busts in unusual headgear.

During the Patriotic War, the facade of the building was severely damaged, and the sculptural decoration was partially lost. In 2010, an attic floor was added, changing the complex uneven line of the building.

The original interior has partially survived. The spherical vaults in the entrance are decorated with a dense relief ornament of numerous floral heads. A true treasure is the wooden carved ceiling with painting in one of the offices on the fourth floor.

After the reconstruction, the house on Myasnitskaya Street was occupied by shops and offices. For a long time, it housed the machine engineering and boiler warehouses of the Bromley Brothers Mechanical Plants Society. Nearby was the office of T.I. Hagen, which sold American "National" cash registers that were used in Soviet trade until the 1960s.

Until the 1930s, the technical office of the "Krasny Metallist" factory and a workshop for assembling and repairing sewing machines of the "Gosshveimashina" trust were located here.

After the war, shops were opened on the first floor with large windows, while the other floors were occupied by departments of the Ministry of Chemical Industry, which was located in the neighboring building No. 20.

Currently, the house belongs to the Higher School of Economics.

Geo point

Доходный дом Мишина

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