The mansion owned by Rostov grain industrialist and horse breeder Ivan Alexandrovich Suprunov is one of the outstanding architectural landmarks. Built in the early 20th century, it is included in the list of cultural heritage sites of regional significance and represents a monument of pre-revolutionary Rostov-on-Don.

The building is located at 79 Pushkinskaya Street and is popular among the city's residents. A city legend is associated with its construction: during a trip to Italy, Suprunov was impressed by a mansion in Naples or Genoa and decided to acquire it. After negotiations with the owner, who initially refused, Suprunov offered such a significant sum that the owner agreed. The mansion was dismantled, transported by barge to Rostov-on-Don, and restored under Suprunov's personal supervision. However, there is an opinion that the rumors about the Italian origin of the house were spread by the merchant himself to attract attention to his business. Another version, based on the stories of Suprunov's daughter, claims that the house was built from local materials according to a design brought from the 1910 World Exhibition in Brussels. The truth of these versions remains in question, but the mansion undoubtedly deserves attention.

Initially, the building was decorated with marble and majolica. The window openings had semi-circular finishes, and the central entrance was adorned with a marble portal. In front of the house was a front garden, and behind it, a garden with a pool lined with blue majolica. A fence with a wrought-iron grille was installed along Pushkinskaya Street. The house was valued at 17,000 rubles. Ivan Suprunov lived in the mansion with his family, but after the arrival of Soviet power, the building was confiscated, and Suprunov himself was arrested by the Bolsheviks and likely executed, as nothing more is known about him.

In the 1920s, the former Suprunov house housed a nursery and a children's reception center, leading to significant destruction and loss of interior decoration. During World War II, the mansion also suffered damage, and only in the 1950s was it reconstructed in a pseudo-classical style. After the completion of the work, the house was handed over to employees of the South Caucasian Railway for residence.

Currently, the building houses the Rostov Regional Museum of Local Lore. In front of it stands the sculpture "Indigenous Rostov Resident," which easily resembles the image of Ivan Alexandrovich Suprunov. As for the exterior of the house, only the dark marble cladding of the basement floor has survived from the original decor, while the rest was lost during the years of Soviet power.