The house of V.K. Michurin is an architectural monument located in the historical center of Nizhny Novgorod. It was built in 1848-1849 according to the design of architect L.V. Fostikov for the wife of merchant V.K. Michurin. The building is executed in the style of early academic eclecticism.

In 1848, merchant of the 1st guild Vasily Klimentyevich Michurin began the construction of two houses in the lower part of the city. One of them, located at 49 Rozhdestvenskaya Street, was intended for rent, while the second, located near the Red Barracks by the Kremlin at 1 Nizhne-Volzhskaya Embankment, was built for the family. According to rumors, the income from the rental of the first house was to be used for the needs of his wife, Avdotya Vasilyevna.

The projects for both houses were developed by architect L.V. Fostikov. The plans for the rental house on Rozhdestvenskaya Street, near the Oka ferry bridge, were approved by the Nizhny Novgorod Construction Commission on February 26, 1848, and confirmed in St. Petersburg on March 26. In the spring of the same year, the foundation was laid, and by the end of the construction season, the two-story building was erected and covered with an iron roof. The following year, the house was fully finished, although some changes were made to the facade during construction.

The Michurin houses have retained their significance in the history of Nizhny Novgorod. The famous local historian Nikolai Kramtsovsky wrote that from the Michurin house, which faces the Lower Blagoveshchenskaya Square and the Oka, the embankment begins, lined with stone houses, just like Rozhdestvenskaya Street. It ends at the old Borovsky ferry, where the barracks are located. In the Michurin house, the last one to the Kunavinsky ferry, there was the famous hotel of I.M. Bubnov, and nearby, the office of transport and diligences of Korovin. The Bubnov hotel was renowned for its dining and rooms, which during the fair were rented at high prices, from 2 to 5 rubles for two rooms and from 8 to 10 rubles for three rooms per day.

At the Lower Blagoveshchenskaya Square, where the Michurin house is located, there were a taxi exchange and several bread shops, and during the fair, a Cossack guardhouse and shops with berries, apples, and other products appeared here. From this square, opposite Rozhdestvenskaya Street, the Blagoveshchenskaya sloboda began, and to the left was the Pokhvalinsky descent.